Mary Poppins Resources

If you want to fill your brain with technical deets about Mary Poppins, IMDB's your site. They can tell you whether it was shot on 35mm film or not. (Spoiler: it was).

This pretty much proves that everyone loves Mary Poppins. Rotten Tomatoes collects critical reviews of movies from around the web—and Mary P. gets a 100% rating. That's astonishing, or should we say that it's "Supercalifragi—" you know the rest.

Yeah, it's still got an official website. You can't relegate Mary P. to ash-pit of history. She'll arise from the wreckage and get her revenge.

Yeah, Mary Poppins tweets—she's not behind the times. But, actually, this Twitter account seems to be used more for hyping the stage musical version of the movie and less for expressing Mary's deeply held thoughts and views on modern life.

This is where it all started—with a magical object called a book, made from paper and printed with ink. They're not used so much anymore, because they've been replaced by magical screens. But that's where Mary P. got her start, in P.L. Travers' classic series.

This is the sequel to the first Mary Poppins book, and it would be followed by six more. These books really are like Pringles—addictive.

This isn't a sequel to the Mary Popmeister's original classic. Rather, it tells the story of how Mary Poppins was made, showing Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) and P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) in an epic power clash.

If you get psyched watching Mary Poppins on a screen, you'll be even more stoked to watch it and hear the same songs live on stage. Yes, that's right—a Mary Poppins musical exists.

Julie Andrews talks about meeting P.L. Travers—who said she was all wrong for the role, except for her nose.

Turns out, they're planning a Mary Poppins sequel. We hope the movie people won't stomp all over something we loved with a sub-par remake. But with Emily Blunt in the lead role and Hamilton's Lin Manuel Miranda in a supporting role, maybe it will be cool?

Dick Van Dyke (the dude who played Bert) wilds out on CNN, giving us the straight dope on his Mary Poppins experience and on his technically inaccurate cockney accent.

Songwriter Richard Sherman talks smack about P.L. Travers, and the girl who played Jane remembers what it was like to Jane-it-up for a while.

The answer seems to be, "Basically, yes," with a few big differences and speculative leaps.

The Times' critic, Bosley Crowther, can barely contain his ecstasy at Mary Poppins. He loved it. Loved it.

This article goes through a lot of things that weren't in Saving Mr. Banks—like Travers whole drama with adopting one identical twin but not the other.

The LA Times answers the question posed in this article's title, by saying "No."

Here's more Mary Poppins sequel news.

This is a fascinating interview with Travers. After all the negative press around her because of Savings Mr. Banks, it's interesting to hear her talk about her own books and what they meant to her.

If you want to learn a little bit about the director, there are some interesting details about his prolific career in his obituary.

Mary has reddish hair in this poster and darker brown hair in the movie. Just pointing it out…

This DVD case picture features the penguin waiters on it…always a good choice.

Mary looks really happy to be holding that robin, and it makes us happy too.

Bert has a giant open-mouthed smile in this picture. It almost looks like he wants to devour you…and maybe he does. Maybe he does.

Michael looks glad enough to be here, but a little dazed. Maybe he's been hitting too many swigs of medicine with too many spoonfuls of sugar, eh?

Winifred pauses from writing a letter to look at somebody.

Ellen looks like she's about to deliver a karate chop to a small child's head. Watch out, kids.

Jane looks kind of puzzled in this picture, like someone just asked her how many times a hummingbird flaps its wings in a second. (Google it—it's surprising).

In what many would consider the movie's greatest moment, Bert dances with cartoon penguins while making his pants look weird.

Mary comes in for a landing on her umbrella. Hope she doesn't get sucked into the engine of a jet like "Sherry Bobbins" on The Simpsons…

Here's Mary Poppins' creator—and the enemy of everyone involved in making the movie.

Songwriting duo, The Sherman Bros., take a moment to chill with Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke on the set of Mary Poppins.

The Director, Robert Stevenson, (not to be confused with the dude who wrote Treasure Island) studies a script with a long pipe in his mouth.

Everyone here is covered in chimney soot, mouths hanging open in mid-song.

This hour-long doc delves into the making of the movie, discussing Travers conflict with Disney (and with everyone else).

The Saving Mr. Banks trailer leads us through the whole plot, detailing Travers power clash with Disney. It even gives away what's supposed to be the big surprise—that she had unresolved issues over her father.

Disney chats with Bob Selig of Grauman's Chinese Theater in L.A., who praises Mary Poppins, and then they show a trailer for the film.

Julie Andrews (who played Mary) chats about the 50th Anniversary of Mary Poppins on the Today Show, and also discusses a series of children's books she's writing with her daughter.

The trailer doesn't give away the whole plot. It gives us a few mysteries to puzzle over. Why is this movie partly animated? Why is Mary singing about a spoonful of sugar helping the medicine go down? Watch the full-length film and grow wise.

Mary sings with a Robin and with her own reflection in a mirror, which takes on a life of its own. (That last bit sounds like the plot of a horror movie.)

Here it is: the song that memorialized the word that probably isn't actually the longest word in the English language (since it isn't a real word—not to sound like Mr. Banks).

In this number, the Banks Family finally gets their act together and starts enjoying their lives. Credit it to the simple joy of flying a kite.

Mary Poppins leads the children into some sort of alternate universe where everything else is animated. It's a head-trip—like The Matrix for children.

Bert chims, chims some more, and then also cher-ees. This song won the Oscar for Best Song.

Dutch conductor Andre Rieu conducts his version. A singer dressed as Poppins descends from the ceiling holding an umbrella as she performs.

"Chim Chim Cher-ee"? Check. "Feed the Birds"? Check. Check, check, and check. They're all here—warming hearts and making feet tap.

Can you handle even more spoonfuls of sugar? Of course you can.

Warning: Shmoop will not be held liable for injuries incurred by those who actually attempt to "step in time" on rooftops to this song.

Uncle Albert gets stuck in the air thanks to his uncontrollable laughter. He just has to belch in order to get back down…no, wait, that's from Willy Wonka and the Charlie Factory. Our bad.

If the video version wasn't enough, and you wanted to hone in on the audio… well, we're not stopping you.