Never need a reason, never need a rhyme: Mary Poppins is out of step with the times. That's according to an Oregon professor who wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times that asserts the 1964 ...

Long resistant to film adaptations of her Mary Poppins books, P.L. Travers finally succumbed to the entreaties of Walt Disney, and the result is often considered the finest of Disney's personally ...

Sixty years after its original release and the Mary Poppins cast is still remembered fondly. This Disney classic came out in 1964 and went on to win five Academy Awards, including for the song ...

Turns out the famous "spoonful of sugar" scene is full of more wisdom than I thought. This is exactly what happened to me when I re-watched the 1964 Mary Poppins movie (you know, the one with ...

In 1964, Poppins-mania descended on America. But Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" was also a controversial project, in more ways than one ...

A spoonful of sugar! With maybe just a touch of strychnine. Oldsters, who were kids in 1964, may still recall the hoopla and hysteria around "Mary Poppins," released 60 years ago this August 27 ...

'Mary Poppins' — a sequel starring Emily Blunt hits theaters Dec. 19 — topped the box office in 1964 (and earned an Oscar for star Julie Andrews), allowing Walt Disney to buy 27,000 acres near ...

The Disney movie, which came out in 1964, stars Julie Andrews as magical governess Mary Poppins and Dick Van Dyke as her chimney-sweep sidekick, Bert. It snared 13 Oscar nominations — including ...

British Film Board Urges ‘Parental Guidance’ for 1964’s ‘Mary Poppins’ Film Because of ‘Discriminatory Language’ The film has only been reevaluated by the organization once before, and the age rating ...

The rating for “Mary Poppins,” the 1964 classic starring Julia Andrews, has been changed in the U.K. due to “discriminatory language.” The film, which was previously rated as U for ...

It’ll take more than a spoonful of sugar for the “discriminatory language” of 1964’s “Mary Poppins” to be overlooked by the UK’s movie-rating system. The classic film, which stars ...