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{{Short description|1964 film by Robert Stevenson}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Mary Poppins
| image          = Marypoppins.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster<br />Art by [[Paul Wenzel]]<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=https://comics.ha.com/itm/animation-art/production-drawing/mary-poppins-movie-poster-preliminary-painting-by-paul-wenzel-walt-disney-1964-/a/7196-95132.s |title=LOT #95132 Mary Poppins Movie Poster Preliminary Painting by Paul Wenzel (Walt Disney, 1964) |publisher= [[Heritage Auctions]] |access-date=August 14, 2019 |archive-date=August 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814154616/https://comics.ha.com/itm/animation-art/production-drawing/mary-poppins-movie-poster-preliminary-painting-by-paul-wenzel-walt-disney-1964-/a/7196-95132.s |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Art of the Stamp">{{cite web |url= https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/art-of-the-stamp/artist-biographies#Wenzel |title=Artist Biographies |publisher=[[National Postal Museum]] |access-date=}}</ref>
| director       = [[Robert Stevenson (filmmaker)|Robert Stevenson]]
| screenplay     = {{Plainlist|
* [[Bill Walsh (producer)|Bill Walsh]]
* [[Don DaGradi]]
}}
| based_on       = {{Based on|''[[Mary Poppins (book series)|Mary Poppins]]''|[[P. L. Travers]]}}
| producer       = [[Walt Disney]]
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Julie Andrews]]
* [[Dick Van Dyke]]
* [[David Tomlinson]]
* [[Glynis Johns]]
* [[Hermione Baddeley]]
* [[Karen Dotrice]]
* [[Matthew Garber]]
* [[Elsa Lanchester]]
* [[Arthur Treacher]]
* [[Reginald Owen]]
* [[Ed Wynn]]
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}}
| cinematography = [[Edward Colman (cinematographer)|Edward Colman]]
| editing        = [[Cotton Warburton]]
| music          = {{Plainlist|
* [[Richard M. Sherman]]
* [[Robert B. Sherman]]
}}
| studio         = [[Walt Disney Productions]]
| distributor    = [[Buena Vista Distribution Company, Inc.]]
| released       = {{Film date|1964|08|27|Los Angeles|ref1=<ref name=AFI>{{AFI film|23290}}</ref>|1964|09|24|New York City|ref2=<ref name=AFI/>}}
| runtime        = 139 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 138:55--><ref>{{cite web | url=https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/mary-poppins-film-0 | title=''Mary Poppins'' (U) | publisher=[[British Board of Film Classification]] | date=October 9, 1964 | access-date=December 4, 2016 | archive-date=December 20, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220055711/http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/mary-poppins-film-0}}</ref>
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $4.4–6&nbsp;million<ref name=digibits />
| gross          = $103.1&nbsp;million (US/Canada)<ref name=mojo>{{cite web |url= https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0058331/ |title= Mary Poppins (1964) |website= [[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date= October 30, 2019 |archive-date= October 31, 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191031003810/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0058331/ |url-status= live}}</ref>
}}
'''''Mary Poppins''''' is a 1964 American [[Live-action animation|live-action/animated hybrid]] [[Musical film|musical]] [[fantasy comedy]] film directed by [[Robert Stevenson (filmmaker)|Robert Stevenson]] and produced by [[Walt Disney]], with songs written and composed by the [[Sherman Brothers]]. The screenplay is by [[Bill Walsh (producer)|Bill Walsh]] and [[Don DaGradi]], based on [[P. L. Travers]]'s book series ''[[Mary Poppins (book series)|Mary Poppins]]''. The film, which combines live-action and animation, stars [[Julie Andrews]] in her feature film debut as [[Mary Poppins (character)|Mary Poppins]], who visits a dysfunctional family in London and employs her unique brand of lifestyle to improve the family's dynamic. [[Dick Van Dyke]], [[David Tomlinson]], and [[Glynis Johns]] are featured in supporting roles. The film was shot entirely at the [[Walt Disney Studios (Burbank)|Walt Disney Studios]] in [[Burbank, California]], using painted London background scenes.<ref name="pbs.org">{{cite episode|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/walt-disney/|title=Walt Disney|series=[[American Experience]]|season=27|number=4–5|network=[[PBS]]|date=September 2015|access-date=September 4, 2017|archive-date=April 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421164454/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/walt-disney/|url-status=live}}</ref>

''Mary Poppins'' was released on August 27, 1964, to critical acclaim and commercial success, earning $44 million in [[theatrical rental]]s in its original run. It became the [[1964 in film|highest-grossing film of 1964]] in the United States, and at the time of its release became Disney's highest-grossing film. During its theatrical lifetime, it grossed over $103 million worldwide. It received a total of thirteen [[Academy Award]] nominations—a record for any film released by [[Walt Disney Studios (division)|Walt Disney Studios]]—including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], and won five: [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] for Andrews, [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]], [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Music Score]], [[Academy Award for Best Visual Effects|Best Visual Effects]], and [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song]] for "[[Chim Chim Cher-ee]]".<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hollis |first1=Tim |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/ocm61309354 |title=Mouse tracks: the story of Walt Disney Records |last2=Ehrbar |first2=Greg |date=2006 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-57806-848-7 |edition=1st |location=Jackson |oclc=ocm61309354}}</ref> It is considered Walt Disney's crowning live-action achievement and is the only one of his films to earn a Best Picture nomination during his lifetime.<ref name="pbs.org" /> In 2013, it was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."<ref name="2013Add">{{cite news|last=O'Sullivan|first=Michael|title=Library of Congress announces 2013 National Film Registry selections|url-access = registration |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160610201044/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/library-of-congress-announces-2013-national-film-registry-selections/2013/12/17/eba98bce-6737-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html?tid=hpModule_ef3e52c4-8691-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394 |url-status=live |newspaper= [[The Washington Post]]|archive-date= June 10, 2016|url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/library-of-congress-announces-2013-national-film-registry-selections/2013/12/17/eba98bce-6737-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html?tid=hpModule_ef3e52c4-8691-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394 |date=December 18, 2013}}</ref>

A biographical drama based on the making of the film, ''[[Saving Mr. Banks]]'', was released on October 20, 2013. A sequel, ''[[Mary Poppins Returns]]'', was released on December 19, 2018.<ref name=DeadlineRelease>{{cite web|first=Anthony|last=D'Alessandro|access-date=November 25, 2018|title='Indiana Jones 5' Shifts To 2021, 'Mary Poppins Returns' Moves Up A Week & More Disney Release-Date Moves|url=https://deadline.com/2018/07/indiana-jones-5-2021-release-date-mary-poppins-returns-dwayne-johnson-jungle-cruise-1202423959/|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=July 10, 2018|archive-date=February 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203111327/https://deadline.com/2018/07/indiana-jones-5-2021-release-date-mary-poppins-returns-dwayne-johnson-jungle-cruise-1202423959/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Mulroy|first1=Zahra|last2=Rodgers|first2=James|title=Why Julie Andrews won't be starring in Mary Poppins movie|url=https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/julie-andrews-wont-starring-mary-13171175|newspaper=[[Birmingham Mail]]|date=March 4, 2018|access-date=December 30, 2018|archive-date=March 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305064724/https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/julie-andrews-wont-starring-mary-13171175|url-status=live}}</ref>

== Plot ==
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In 1910, Winifred Banks returns to her home in [[Edwardian era|Edwardian]] [[London]] after a [[suffragette]] rally ("[[Sister Suffragette]]") and learns that her children, Jane and Michael, have run away, "for the fourth time this week", which prompted their nanny, Katie Nanna, to quit her job. That night, Winifred's strict and ambitious husband George returns home from his job at the bank ("[[The Life I Lead (song)|The Life I Lead]]") and places a newspaper advertisement for a stern, no-nonsense nanny. Jane and Michael present their own advertisement for a kind, sympathetic nanny ("[[The Perfect Nanny (song)|The Perfect Nanny]]"), but George rips up their letter and throws the scraps in the fireplace. A strong wind draws the scraps up through the chimney and into the sky.

The next day, several sour-faced nannies await outside the Banks family's home, but a strong gust of wind magically blows them away. Jane and Michael then witness a young woman floating down from the sky, gracefully descending with an open umbrella. The woman enters the Banks family's home and introduces herself as [[Mary Poppins (character)|Mary Poppins]]. To George's shock, Mary is holding the children's advertisement, and the scraps have been put back together. She agrees with the advertisement's requests but promises George that she will be firm with his children. Mary manipulates George into hiring her. Upstairs, Mary helps the children magically clean their nursery ("[[A Spoonful of Sugar]]").

While walking in a park, the trio encounters Mary's friend Bert, a [[Jack of all trades, master of none|jack of all trades]] working as a [[street painting|street painter]]. Mary transports the group into one of Bert's drawings. While the children ride on a [[carousel]], Mary and Bert sing while strolling ("Jolly Holiday"). Bert and Mary then participate in a [[horse race]], which Mary wins. Mary uses a [[nonsense word]] to describe her victory ("[[Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious]]"). When a thunderstorm dissolves Bert's drawings, the group is returned to London. While putting the children to bed, Mary sings a lullaby ("[[Stay Awake (Mary Poppins song)|Stay Awake]]").

The next day, the trio and Bert visit Mary's odd uncle, Albert, whose uncontrollable laughter has caused him to float ("[[I Love to Laugh]]"). George becomes annoyed by the household's cheery atmosphere and threatens to fire Mary. She persuades him to take the children to his workplace. That evening, Mary sings a lullaby about a woman who sells [[bird food]] on the steps of [[St. Paul's Cathedral]] ("[[Feed the Birds]]"). The next day at the bank, the children meet George's boss, the elderly Mr. Dawes Sr., who advises Michael to invest his [[twopence (British pre-decimal coin)|tuppence]] in the bank, ultimately snatching the coin out of Michael's hand ("[[Fidelity Fiduciary Bank]]"). Michael demands it back; other customers overhear the conflict, and they all begin demanding their own money back, causing a [[bank run]].

Jane and Michael flee the bank and get lost in the [[East End of London|East End]]. Bert, now working as a [[chimney sweep]], escorts them home ("[[Chim Chim Cher-ee]]"). The three and Mary venture onto the rooftops, where Bert dances with other chimney sweeps ("[[Step in Time]]"). George later receives a phone call from the bank, requesting a meeting with him regarding Michael's actions. The children overhear the phone call and become concerned. Bert scolds George for neglecting Jane and Michael and advises him to spend more time with them before they grow up ("[[A Man Has Dreams]]"). Hoping to make amends, Michael gives George the tuppence. Stricken with regret, George slowly walks through London to the bank, where he is given a humiliating [[cashiering]]. Lost for words, George exclaims "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", tells a joke Uncle Albert had told the children, and happily walks home. When Mr. Dawes Sr. understands the joke, he floats up into the air, laughing.

The next day, Mary Poppins tells the children she must leave. George mends his children's kite and takes the family out to fly it. At the park, the family encounters Mr. Dawes Sr.'s son, Mr. Dawes Jr., who reveals that his father [[Death from laughter|died laughing]] at the joke ("[[Let's Go Fly a Kite]]"). Mr. Dawes Jr. says his father had never been happier and gratefully rehires (and promotes) George. Mary watches the family and decides her work is done. As Mary flies away, Bert looks up and says, "Goodbye, Mary Poppins. Don't stay away too long."

==Cast==
===Live-action cast===
[[File:Mary Poppins5.jpg|thumb|right|[[Julie Andrews]] as Mary Poppins]]
[[File:Mary Poppins3.jpg|thumb|[[Dick Van Dyke]] as Bert]]
[[File:Mary Poppins11.jpg|thumb|right|[[Karen Dotrice]] and [[Matthew Garber]] as Jane and Michael Banks]]
[[File:Mary Poppins4.jpg|thumb|right|[[David Tomlinson]] as Mr. Banks]]
[[File:Mary Poppins12.jpg|thumb|right|[[Hermione Baddeley]] and [[Reta Shaw]] as Ellen and Mrs. Brill]]
* [[Julie Andrews]] as [[Mary Poppins (character)|Mary Poppins]], a magical and loving woman who descends from the clouds in response to the Banks children's advertisement for a nanny. She is firm in her use of authority but gentle and kind as well, a major departure from the original books, in which the character was more stern and pompous.{{sfn|Grilli|2013|p=back cover}}
* [[Dick Van Dyke]] as Bert, a [[cockney]] [[Jack of all trades, master of none|jack-of-all-trades]] and Mary Poppins' closest friend, who is completely accustomed to her magic. Their playful interactions imply that they have known each other for a long time and that this kind of story has repeated itself many times. Bert has at least four jobs throughout the film: a [[one-man band]], a [[sidewalk chalk]] artist, a [[chimney sweep]], and a kite seller.
** Van Dyke also portrays Mr. Dawes Sr., the old director of the bank where Mr. Banks works. During the film's end titles, "Navckid Keyd", an anagram of Dick Van Dyke, is first credited as playing the role before the letters unscramble to reveal Van Dyke's name.
* [[David Tomlinson]] as George Banks, Mary Poppins' employer and strict, driven, and disciplined father of Jane and Michael. He works at the Dawes Tomes Mousley Grubbs Fidelity Fiduciary Bank in London.
* [[Glynis Johns]] as Winifred Banks, the easily distracted wife of George Banks and the mother of Jane and Michael. She is depicted as a member of [[Emmeline Pankhurst]]'s "[[Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom|Votes for Women]]" suffrage movement. Mrs. Banks was originally named Cynthia, but this was changed to the more English-sounding Winifred per Travers.<ref name= historyvshollywood>{{cite web|last=Lang|first=Kevin|url= https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/saving-mr-banks.php|title= Saving Mr. Banks True Story|work= [[History vs. Hollywood]]|date=December 19, 2013|access-date= September 9, 2020|archive-date= September 19, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200919083524/https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/saving-mr-banks.php|url-status= live}}</ref>
* [[Hermione Baddeley]] as Ellen, the maid of the Banks residence
* [[Reta Shaw]] as Mrs. Clara Brill, the cook of the Banks residence
* [[Karen Dotrice]] as Jane Banks, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Banks and Michael's older sister. Jane is a high-spirited, bright, and precocious young girl.
* [[Matthew Garber]] as Michael Banks, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Banks and Jane's younger brother. Michael is an excitable and naughty young boy who simply adores and looks up to his father. Both Jane and Michael are mischievous and misbehave in an attempt to seek attention from their parents.
* [[Elsa Lanchester]] as Katie Nanna, the disgruntled nanny who quits the Banks family
* [[Arthur Treacher]] as Constable Cody Jones, a police officer
* [[Reginald Owen]] as Admiral Boom, the Banks' eccentric neighbor and a naval officer. He has his first mate, Mr. Binnacle, fire a cannon from his roof every 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.
* [[Ed Wynn]] as Uncle Albert, a jolly gentleman who suffers from an unknown condition where he floats in the air due to his uncontrollable laughter. Although he likes having company over, he becomes sad and cries when his guests have to leave and he falls back to the ground, since it is the inversion of laughing.
* [[Jane Darwell]] as the "Bird Woman", an old woman who sells breadcrumbs for the pigeons on the steps of [[St Paul's Cathedral]]
* [[Arthur Malet]] as Mr. Dawes Jr., the director's son and member of the board
* James Logan as a doorman who chases after the children in the bank
* [[Don Barclay (actor)|Don Barclay]] as Mr. Binnacle, Admiral Boom's first mate
* [[Alma Lawton]] as Mrs. Corry, an old shopkeeper of a gingerbread shop and mother of two very tall daughters
* [[Marjorie Eaton]] as Miss Molly Persimmon
* [[Marjorie Bennett]] as Miss Lark, owner of the dog named Andrew, who frequently runs away
* [[Cyril Delevanti]] as Mr. Grubbs (uncredited)<ref name=AFI/>
* [[Lester Matthews]] as Mr. Tomes (uncredited)<ref name=AFI/>
* [[Betty Lou Gerson]] as old crone (uncredited)
* [[Kay E. Kuter]] as man in bank (uncredited)
* [[Doris Lloyd]] as depositor (uncredited)<ref name=AFI/>
* [[Queenie Leonard]] as depositor (uncredited)

===Voice cast===
* Julie Andrews as Robin, Pearly Violinist, and the Bird Woman
* [[Marc Breaux]] as Cow
* [[Daws Butler]] as Penguin Waiter, Turtles
* [[Peter Ellenshaw]] as Penguin Waiter ("And Jane")
* [[Paul Frees]] as Barnyard Horse
* [[Bill Lee (singer)|Bill Lee]] as Ram
* [[Jimmy MacDonald (sound effects artist)|Jimmy MacDonald]] as animals
* [[Sean McClory]] as Bloodhound, Reporter #4
* [[Dallas McKennon]] as Fox, Bloodhound, Penguin Waiter, Horse, Carousel Guard
* [[Alan Napier]] as Old Huntsman, Reporter #3, Bloodhound
* [[Marni Nixon]] as Geese
* [[J. Pat O'Malley]] as Bloodhound, Master of Hounds, Hunting Horse #2, Pearly Drummer, Pearly Tambourinist, Penguin Waiter, Photographer, Reporter #2
* George Pelling as Bloodhound, Reporter #1
* [[Thurl Ravenscroft]] as Hog
* [[Richard M. Sherman]] as Penguin Waiter, Male Pearly
* [[Robert B. Sherman]] as Pearly Banjo Player
* David Tomlinson as Penguin Waiter, Jockey, Race Track Stewards, Mary Poppins' Parrot Umbrella<ref>{{cite web |last=Korkis |first=Jim |date=August 14, 2013 |title=Mary Poppins Fun Facts |url=http://www.mouseplanet.com/10436/Mary_Poppins_Fun_Facts |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20240428160421/https://mouseplanet.com/mary-poppins-fun-facts/4114/ |archive-date=April 28, 2024 |website=MousePlanet |access-date=February 18, 2015 }}</ref>
* [[Ginny Tyler]] as the Lambs
* [[Martha Wentworth]] as Cockney Cow<ref name="CartoonVoices">{{cite book |last=Scott |first=Keith |title=Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 |date=3 October 2022 |publisher=BearManor Media |page=606}}</ref>

== Production ==
=== Development ===
[[File:P.L. Travers - 50 Smith Street Chelsea London SW3 4EP.jpg|thumb|upright|Walt Disney's efforts to obtain the rights to ''Mary Poppins'' included travelling to Travers' home in London (''pictured'').]]
The film's main basis was the first novel in [[Mary Poppins (novel)|the ''Mary Poppins'' series]]. According to the 40th Anniversary DVD release of the film in 2004, Disney's daughters fell in love with the ''Mary Poppins'' books and made Disney promise to make a film based on them. He first attempted to purchase the film rights from [[P. L. Travers]] as early as 1938, but Travers repeatedly refused; she did not believe a film version would do justice to her books.

Disney was also then known primarily as a producer of animated films, and had yet to produce a major live-action work. For more than 20 years, he made periodic efforts to convince Travers to release the rights, including visiting her home in [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]], London.<ref>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Julia Llewellyn |title=Saving Mr Banks: the true story of Walt Disney's battle to make Mary Poppins |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/saving-mr-banks-true-story-walt-disneys-battle-make-mary-poppins/ |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=December 23, 2016 |orig-date=December 2013 |access-date=April 14, 2022 |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218051529/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/saving-mr-banks-true-story-walt-disneys-battle-make-mary-poppins/ |archive-date=February 18, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> He finally succeeded in 1961, although Travers demanded and obtained script-approval rights. The [[Sherman Brothers]] composed the music score and were involved in the film's development, suggesting the setting be changed from the 1930s to the [[Edwardian era]]. Pre-production and music creation took about two years.

=== Pre-production ===
Travers was an adviser to the production, even being billed as the film's Consultant. However, she disapproved of the dilution of the harsher aspects of Mary Poppins' character, felt ambivalent about the music, and hated the use of animation so much that she ruled out any further adaptations of the later ''Mary Poppins'' novels.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Newman|first=Melinda|title='Poppins' Author a Pill No Spoonful of Sugar Could Sweeten|url=https://variety.com/2013/music/features/poppins-author-a-pill-no-spoonful-of-sugar-could-sweeten-1200802019/|access-date=November 7, 2013|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=November 7, 2013|archive-date=November 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111182813/http://variety.com/2013/music/features/poppins-author-a-pill-no-spoonful-of-sugar-could-sweeten-1200802019/|url-status=live}}</ref> She objected to a number of elements that made it into the film. Rather than original songs, she wanted the soundtrack to feature known standards of the Edwardian period in which the story is set. However, due to contract stipulations citing that he had [[final cut privilege]] on the finished print, Disney overruled her.

Much of the Travers–Disney correspondence is part of the Travers collection of papers in the [[State Library of New South Wales]], Australia. The relationship between Travers and Disney is detailed in ''Mary Poppins She Wrote'', a biography of Travers by Valerie Lawson. The biography is the basis for two documentaries on Travers: ''The Real Mary Poppins'' and Lisa Matthews' ''The Shadow of Mary Poppins''.<ref name=Nance>{{cite news|last=Nance|first=Kevin|title=Valerie Lawson talks 'Mary Poppins, She Wrote' and P.L Travers|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2013/12/20/valerie-lawson-talks-mary-poppins-she-wrote-and-pl-travers/|access-date=April 21, 2014|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=December 20, 2013|archive-date=February 28, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228131106/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-12-20/features/chi-saving-mr-banks-valerie-lawson-20131220_1_saving-mr-p-l-travers-p-l-travers}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roninfilms.com.au/feature/503/shadow-of-mary-poppins.html |title=The Shadow of Mary Poppins |date=2003 |access-date=November 29, 2015 |publisher=Ronin Films |website=Shop for a Film |archive-date=November 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121053608/http://www.roninfilms.com.au/feature/503/shadow-of-mary-poppins.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=newyorker>{{cite magazine|last=Flanagan|first=Caitlin|author-link=Caitlin Flanagan|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/12/19/becoming-mary-poppins?currentPage=all|title=Becoming Mary Poppins|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|date=December 19, 2005|access-date=November 9, 2014|archive-date=November 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109070254/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/12/19/becoming-mary-poppins?currentPage=all|url-status=live}}</ref> Their relationship during the development of the film was also dramatized in the 2013 Disney film ''[[Saving Mr. Banks]]''.

=== Casting ===
In March 1961, Disney announced that it might cast [[Hayley Mills]] and [[Mary Martin]] in the film.<ref>{{cite news|last=Weiler|first=A. H.|title=View from a Local Vantage Point: On the Harvey, Disney Production Schedule|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/03/05/archives/view-from-a-local-vantage-point-on-the-harvey-disney-production.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 5, 1961|page=X7|access-date=December 2, 2020|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521081048/https://www.nytimes.com/1961/03/05/archives/view-from-a-local-vantage-point-on-the-harvey-disney-production.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Julie Harris]], [[Angela Lansbury]], and [[Bette Davis]] were considered for the role of Mary and [[Cary Grant]] was Walt's favorite choice for the role of Bert;<ref>{{Cite web|last=Conradt|first=Stacy|url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/58615/18-supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-facts-about-mary-poppins|title=18 Supercalifragilistic Facts About Mary Poppins|date=October 30, 2015|website=[[Mental Floss]]}}</ref> [[Laurence Harvey]] and [[Anthony Newley]] were also considered for Bert.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Korkis|first=Jim|url=https://www.mouseplanet.com/10395/Walt_Disney_PL_Travers_and_the_Battle_Over_Mary_Poppins__Part_One|title=Walt Disney, P.L. Travers, and the Battle Over Mary Poppins – Part One|website=MousePlanet|date=July 24, 2013}}</ref>

[[Julie Andrews]], who was making her feature film acting debut after a successful stage career, was given the prime role of Mary Poppins soon after she was passed over by [[Jack L. Warner]] and replaced with [[Audrey Hepburn]] for the role of [[Eliza Doolittle]] in his [[My Fair Lady (film)|screen adaptation]] of ''[[My Fair Lady]]'', even though Andrews originated the role on Broadway.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/julie-andrews/|title=Julie Andrews {{!}} The Stars {{!}} Broadway: The American Musical|publisher=PBS|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009121917/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/julie-andrews/|archive-date=October 9, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Hischak |first=Thomas |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000hisc/page/516/mode/2up |title=The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television |location=New York |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2008 |page=517 |isbn=978-0-19-533533-0 |url-access=registration}}</ref> When Disney approached Andrews about playing Poppins, she was three months pregnant. Disney assured her that they were willing to postpone filming until she had given birth so that she could take the part.<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QhXfKMdhWI|title=Julie Andrews Recalls Making 'Mary Poppins'|work=[[Anderson Live]]|date=October 16, 2012|via=[[YouTube]]|access-date=February 14, 2015|archive-date=February 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210220091511/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QhXfKMdhWI%2C|url-status=live}}</ref> Disney considered actor [[Stanley Holloway]] for the role of Admiral Boom, but it went to Reginald Owen, due to Holloway's commitment to ''My Fair Lady''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lawson|first=Valerie|title=Mary Poppins She Wrote: The Extraordinary Life of Australian Writer P.L. Travers|isbn=978-0733626371|year=2010|page=214|location=Sydney|publisher=[[Hachette Australia]]}}</ref>

Andrews also provided the voice in two other sections of the film: During "[[A Spoonful of Sugar]]", she provided the whistling harmony for the robin, and she was also one of the [[Pearly Kings and Queens|Pearly]] singers during "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". [[David Tomlinson]], besides playing Mr. Banks, provided the voices of Mary's talking umbrella, Admiral Boom's first mate, and numerous other voice-over parts. During the "Jolly Holiday" sequence, the three singing Cockney geese were all voiced by [[Marni Nixon]], who regularly sang for actresses with substandard singing voices. (Nixon later provided the singing voice for Hepburn in ''My Fair Lady,'' and played one of Andrews' fellow nuns in ''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]''.) Andrews later beat Hepburn for the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical|Best Actress Award]] at the [[Golden Globes]] for their respective roles. Andrews also won the [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] for Best Actress for her role (Hepburn was not nominated for it). Richard Sherman, one of the songwriters, also voiced a penguin, and one of the Pearlies.<ref>DVD extra</ref> Robert Sherman provided the speaking voice of Jane Darwell because Darwell's voice was too soft to be heard in the soundtrack. He is heard saying the only line: "Feed the birds, tuppence a bag."<ref>Source: Commentary on Mary Poppins on DVD</ref>

Disney cast [[Dick Van Dyke]] in the main supporting role of Bert after seeing his work on ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]''. After winning the role, Van Dyke lobbied to also play the senior Mr. Dawes. Disney felt he was too young for the part, but Van Dyke won him over after a screen test.<ref>{{cite web|last=Elisberg|first=Robert J.|title=Super-Cali-Fragilistic-Expial-Atrocious|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/super-cali-fragilistic-ex_b_440054.html|website=[[The Huffington Post]]|date=March 30, 2010|access-date=March 26, 2015|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402202923/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/super-cali-fragilistic-ex_b_440054.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Van Dyke had trouble with Bert's Cockney accent. English character actor [[J. Pat O'Malley]] provided some coaching;<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/10/julie-andrews-home-work-memoir-mary-poppins|title=Julie Andrews Remembers Becoming Mary Poppins|date=October 7, 2019|magazine=Vanity Fair}}</ref> but although Van Dyke is fondly remembered for the film, his [[English-language accents in film#Cockney|attempt at a Cockney accent]] is considered one of the poorer accents in film history.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7509572.stm|title=How not to do an American accent|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=July 21, 2008|access-date=February 14, 2015|archive-date=September 21, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921073046/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7509572.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> (It was #2 in a 2003 poll by ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' magazine of the worst film accents.<ref>{{cite news | title=Connery 'has worst film accent' | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3032052.stm | publisher=BBC News | date=June 30, 2003 | access-date=July 6, 2008 | archive-date=August 24, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824041828/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3032052.stm | url-status=live}}</ref>) Van Dyke claimed that O'Malley "didn't do an accent any better than I did".<ref name="NPR Wait Wait">{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130739954|title=Dick Van Dyke Plays Not My Job|work=[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!]]|date=October 23, 2010|access-date=April 3, 2018|archive-date=April 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180417022932/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130739954|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2017, Van Dyke received an award for television excellence from the [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]] (BAFTA), at which time he said, "I appreciate this opportunity to apologise to the members of BAFTA for inflicting on them the most atrocious cockney accent in the history of cinema." A chief executive of BAFTA responded, "We look forward to his acceptance speech in whatever accent he chooses on the night. We have no doubt it will be '[[supercalifragilisticexpialidocious]]'."<ref name="apology">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jul/21/dick-van-dyke-sorry-for-cockney-accent-mary-poppins-disney|title=Dick Van Dyke sorry for 'atrocious cockney accent' in Mary Poppins|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|last=Khomami|first=Nadia|date=July 21, 2017|access-date=January 1, 2019|archive-date=January 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102201727/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jul/21/dick-van-dyke-sorry-for-cockney-accent-mary-poppins-disney|url-status=live}}</ref> In a 2013 interview, Van Dyke would later state that Travers hated him and Andrews; she didn't think they were right.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/9779018/Dick-Van-Dyke-Id-go-to-work-with-terrible-hangovers.-Which-if-youre-dancing-is-hard.html | title=Dick van Dyke: "I'd go to work with terrible hangovers. Which if you're dancing is hard" | date=January 7, 2013 }}</ref>

=== Filming ===
[[Principal photography|Filming]] took place between May and September 1963;  post-production and animation took another eleven months.{{sfn|Williams|Denney|2004|p=281}}

[[File:Mary Poppins9.jpg|thumb|right|Actor Dick Van Dyke was inserted into an animated scene of dancing penguins using the [[sodium vapor process]].]]
The scene in which Mary Poppins and Bert interact with a group of animated penguins is noted for its use of the [[sodium vapor process]]. Rather than using the more common [[Chroma key|bluescreen]] process to insert the actors into the animated footage, the actors were filmed against a white screen lit with sodium vapor lights, which have a yellow hue. A special camera was fitted with a prism that filtered this light to a separate reel of film, creating a highly accurate matte that could be used to isolate the actors from the background. This created a crisp, clean image and even allowed the partially transparent veil of Mary Poppins's costume to let through light from the background. The film received the [[Academy Award for Best Visual Effects]] in 1965 for this effect.<ref>{{cite web |last=Lee |first=Nathaniel |title=How the original 'Mary Poppins' transformed the way movies are made today |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/mary-poppins-disney-changed-movies-classic-visual-effects-green-screen-2018-12 |website=[[Business Insider]] |access-date=13 January 2021 |date=26 December 2018}}</ref>

[[Peter Menefee]], one of the 12 dancing chimney sweeps supporting Bert, provided some insight into the film's choreography:

{{Blockquote |text=The choreography wasn't really done until we got there and they mounted it on us. On the first day of filming, the first thing we shot is the very last thing you see – where we're all dancing down the street at the end. That was hard because, although we had worked for almost a month and a half with the brooms and everything, we'd been working on a plywood floor. And all of a sudden, we get out and we're on a cobblestone street and there's supposed to be four of us tumbling right next to each other, and you put the broom down. Even if it had a rubber point, you'd be all over the place. That was really hard.<ref>{{cite web |last=S. |first=Jeana |url=https://www.surfandsunshine.com/pete-menefee-mary-poppins/ |title=An interview with Pete Menefee, Mary Poppins chimney sweep |website=Surf and Sunshine |date=December 5, 2013}}</ref>|source= }}

The film's choreographers were [[Dee Dee Wood]] and her husband [[Marc Breaux]].<ref>{{Cite web |title= Dee Dee Wood |url= https://www.azmusichalloffame.org/inductees/dee-dee-wood-2/ |access-date=2023-03-04 |publisher=Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame}}</ref> Walt Disney attended the rehearsals for the rooftop scenes every day.<ref>{{cite AV media |last=Frank |first=Rusty |author-link=Rusty Frank |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK4RsR_5Sjg |title=Pete Menefee – A Dancer's Life |date=January 24, 2021 |via=YouTube}}</ref>

== Music ==
{{Main| Mary Poppins: Original Cast Soundtrack}}
The film features music and lyrics by brothers [[Richard M. Sherman]] and [[Robert B. Sherman]], who took inspiration from Edwardian British [[music hall]] music.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29160738|title=Mary Poppins songwriter 'thrilled' at Proms singalong|last=Dowd|first=Vincent|date=September 12, 2014|publisher=BBC News|access-date=September 13, 2014|archive-date=September 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912190402/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29160738|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Irwin Kostal]] arranged and conducted the score. [[Disneyland Records|Buena Vista Records]] released the original soundtrack in 1964 on LP and reel-to-reel tape. Even though RCA Victor Records released a record club edition, it is considered the pivotal release for Disney's in-house record division, selling in the millions.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hollis |first1=Tim |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/ocm61309354 |title=Mouse tracks: the story of Walt Disney Records |last2=Ehrbar |first2=Greg |date=2006 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-57806-848-7 |edition=1st |location=Jackson |oclc=ocm61309354}}</ref> The songs were among the most covered by famous artists such as [[Johnny Mathis]], [[Louis Prima]], and [[Ray Conniff]], and even cartoon characters such as [[Alvin and the Chipmunks|The Chipmunks]] and [[The Flintstones]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ehrbar |first=Greg |title=Hanna-Barbera, the recorded history: from modern stone age to meddling kids |date=2024 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-4968-5185-7 |location=Jackson, MS}}</ref>

==Release==
''Mary Poppins'' premiered on August 27, 1964, at [[TCL Chinese Theatre|Grauman's Chinese Theatre]] in Los Angeles.{{sfn|Williams|Denney|2004|p=281}}{{sfn|Lawson|2013|page=245}} The film's poster was painted by artist [[Paul Wenzel]].<ref name="auto"/><ref name="Art of the Stamp" /> Travers was not extended an invitation to the event, but managed to obtain one from a Disney executive. It was at the after-party that Richard Sherman recalled her walking up to Disney and loudly announcing that the animated sequence had to go. Disney responded, "Pamela, the ship has sailed" and walked away.<ref name=newyorker />

===Home media===
''Mary Poppins'' was released in late 1980 on [[VHS]], Betamax, CED and LaserDisc. The first version features a VHS cover of Mary Poppins flying with her umbrella. The 2nd release in November 1982 has a cropped image of Mary, Bert, and the Children from the "Stepintime" roof dance fireworks scene, while the 3rd release on November 6, 1985, has a full-length picture on its cover. The 4th and final release, on October 4, 1988, as part of the Walt Disney Home Video collection, features the Penguin dance. On October 28, 1994, August 26, 1997, and March 31, 1998, it was rereleased three times as part of the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection. In 1998, the film became Disney's first feature film released on DVD. On July 4, 2000, it was released on VHS and DVD as part of the Gold Classic Collection. On December 14, 2004, it had a 2-disc DVD release in a Digitally Restored 40th Anniversary Edition as well as its final issue in the VHS format. The film's audio track featured an "Enhanced Home Theater Mix" consisting of updated sound effects, improved fidelity and mixing, and some enhanced music (this version was also shown on its 2006–2012 [[Freeform (TV channel)|ABC Family]] airings), but the DVD included the original soundtrack as an audio option.

On January 27, 2009, the film was rereleased on [[DVD-Video|DVD]] as a 45th anniversary edition, with more language tracks and special features (though the film's "Enhanced Home Theater Mix" was not included). [[Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment]] released it on Blu-ray as the ''50th Anniversary Edition'' on December 10, 2013.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Strecker|first=Erin|title='Mary Poppins' star talks 50th anniversary and 'Saving Mr. Banks'|url=http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/12/10/mary-poppins-anniversary-karen-dotrice-saving-mr-banks/|access-date=December 13, 2013|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=December 10, 2013|archive-date=December 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212221904/http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/12/10/mary-poppins-anniversary-karen-dotrice-saving-mr-banks/|url-status=live}}</ref> In February 2024, the [[British Board of Film Classification]] reclassified ''Mary Poppins'' from [[U (British Board of Film Classification)|U]] to a [[PG (British Board of Film Classification)|PG]] due to Admiral Boom's use of the word "hottentot" to refer to the dancing chimney sweeps.<ref>{{cite web |first=Helen |last=Bushby |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68402362 |title=Mary Poppins film age rating raised over 'discriminatory language' |publisher=BBC News |date=2024-02-26 |accessdate=2024-02-27}}</ref>

==Reception==
===Box office===
''Mary Poppins'' earned $31&nbsp;million in theatrical rentals in the United States and Canada during its initial run.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=All Time Box-Office Champs|magazine=Variety|date=January 4, 1967|page=9}}</ref> It was one of the top 12 grossing films in the United States for 32 weeks.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety |date= March 20, 1968|page=5|last=Beaupre|first=Lee|title=Persevering of 'Bonnie & Clyde'; 22 Times on Weekly Top Dozen}}</ref> It earned rentals of $44 million worldwide in its initial release.<ref name=WD>{{Cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/waltdisneyameric00thom/page/345 | title=Walt Disney: An American Original | author=Bob Thomas | publisher=Pocket Books | page=[https://archive.org/details/waltdisneyameric00thom/page/345 345] | year=1976 | isbn=0-671-66232-5}}</ref>

The film was re-released theatrically in 1973, in honor of Walt Disney Productions' 50th anniversary, and earned an estimated additional $9&nbsp;million in rentals in the United States and Canada.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Big Rental Films of 1973 |magazine= Variety|date=January 9, 1974|page=19}}</ref> It was released once more in 1980 and grossed $14&nbsp;million.<ref name="newyorker" /> It returned a total lifetime rental of $45&nbsp;million in the United States and Canada<ref>{{cite magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991007042514/http://www.variety.com/numbers/video.asp|url=https://www.variety.com:80/numbers/video.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 7, 1999|title=All-Time Top Film Rentals|magazine=Variety|access-date=March 27, 2020}}</ref> to Disney from a gross of over $102&nbsp;million.<ref name=mojo />

It was the 20th most popular sound film of the 20th century in the United Kingdom with admissions of 14 million.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Ultimate Chart: 1–100|date=28 November 2004|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|url=http://old.bfi.org.uk/features/ultimatefilm/chart/complete.php|access-date=March 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803005826/http://old.bfi.org.uk/features/ultimatefilm/chart/complete.php|archive-date=August 3, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The film was very profitable for Disney. Made on an estimated budget of $4.4–6&nbsp;million,<ref name=digibits>{{cite web|url=http://www.thedigitalbits.com/columns/history-legacy--showmanship/mary-poppins-50th-anniv|title=Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious: Remembering "Mary Poppins" on its 50th Anniversary|last=Coate|first=Michael|website=The Digital Bits|date=August 27, 2014|access-date=February 16, 2015|archive-date=December 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181202070754/http://www.thedigitalbits.com/columns/history-legacy--showmanship/mary-poppins-50th-anniv}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1964/0MAPO.php|title=Box Office Information for ''Mary Poppins''|website=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]]|access-date=March 5, 2013|archive-date=February 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130201044717/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1964/0MAPO.php|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Hillier|Pye|2011|p=136}} it was reported by Cobbett Steinberg to be the most profitable film of 1965, earning a net profit of $28.5&nbsp;million.{{sfn|Steinberg|1980|p=25}}{{efn|When a film is released late in a calendar year (October–December), its income is reported in the following year's compendium, unless the film made a particularly fast impact.{{sfn|Steinberg|1980|p=17}}}} Walt Disney used his huge profits from the film to purchase land in central Florida and finance the construction of [[Walt Disney World]].{{sfn|Williams|Denney|2004|p=285}}

===Critical response===
The film received universal acclaim from critics.{{sfn|Steinberg|1980|p=25}} Whitney Williams of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' praised its musical sequences and Andrews' and Van Dyke's performances in particular.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Williams|first=Whitney|title=Film Reviews: Mary Poppins|url=https://variety.com/1963/film/reviews/mary-poppins-1200420599/|magazine=Variety|date=September 2, 1964|access-date=December 13, 2013|archive-date=December 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218120539/http://variety.com/1963/film/reviews/mary-poppins-1200420599/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Time'' lauded the film, stating, "The sets are luxuriant, the songs lilting, the scenario witty but impeccably sentimental, and the supporting cast only a pinfeather short of perfection."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,830765,00.html|title=Cinema: Have Umbrella, Will Travel|magazine=Time|volume=84|issue=12|pages=114, 116|date=September 18, 1964|access-date=December 13, 2013|archive-date=December 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218091253/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,830765,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Bosley Crowther]], reviewing for ''The New York Times'', described the film as a "most wonderful, cheering movie … for the visual and aural felicities they have added to this sparkling color film—the enchantments of a beautiful production, some deliciously animated sequences, some exciting and nimble dancing and a spinning musical score—make it the nicest entertainment that has opened at the [[Radio City Music Hall|Music Hall]] this year."<ref>{{cite news|last=Crowther|first=Bosley|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/09/25/archives/screen-mary-poppinsjulie-andrews-stars-as-famous-nanny.html|title=Screen: 'Mary Poppins'|work=The New York Times|page=34|date=September 25, 1964|access-date=February 14, 2020|archive-date=May 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523184811/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/09/25/archives/screen-mary-poppinsjulie-andrews-stars-as-famous-nanny.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

For ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'', James Powers applauded the performances, visual effects, musical score, production design, and choreography, and commented: "''Mary Poppins'' is a picture that is, more than most, a triumph of many individual contributions. And its special triumph is that it seems to be the work of a single, cohesive intelligence."<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Powers|first=James|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/mary-poppins-review-1964-movie-1168686|title='Mary Poppins': THR's 1964 Review|magazine=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=December 12, 2018|orig-date=August 28, 1964|access-date=February 14, 2020|archive-date=July 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728225154/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/mary-poppins-review-1964-movie-1168686|url-status=live}}</ref> Ann Guerin of ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' criticized the creative departures from the novels, particularly the "Jolly Holiday" sequence. She noted that "[s]ome of the sequences have real charm, and perhaps the kids will eat them up. But speaking as a grownup, I found a little bit went a long way." She concluded, "With a little more restraint and a little less improvement on the original, the film's many charms would have been that much better."<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Geurin|first=Ann|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rUwEAAAAMBAJ|title=Poppins with Snap and Crackle|magazine=[[Life (magazine)|Life]]|date=September 25, 1964|volume=57|issue=13|page=28|issn=0024-3019|via=[[Google Books]]|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521081057/https://books.google.com/books?id=rUwEAAAAMBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>

On the review aggregator website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of {{RT data|score}} based on {{RT data|count}} reviews, with an average rating of {{RT data|average}}. The website's critics consensus reads, "A lavish modern fairy tale celebrated for its amazing special effects, catchy songs, and Julie Andrews's legendary performance in the title role."<ref name="rt">{{cite web | url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mary_poppins/ | title=Mary Poppins (1964) | website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] | access-date=August 18, 2021 | archive-date=March 9, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309215928/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mary_poppins | url-status=live}}</ref> [[Metacritic]], which uses a [[Weighted arithmetic mean|weighted average]], assigned the film a score of 88 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/mary-poppins |title=Mary Poppins Reviews |website=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=September 17, 2018 |archive-date=November 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111225401/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/mary-poppins |url-status=live}}</ref> Critic Drew Casper summarized the impact of ''Mary Poppins'' in 2011:

{{blockquote|Disney was the leader, his musical fantasies mixing animation and truly marvelous f/x with real-life action for children and the child in the adult. ''Mary Poppins'' (1964) was his plum. ... the story was elemental, even trite. But utmost sophistication (the chimney pot sequence crisply cut by Oscared "Cotton" Warburton) and high-level invention (a tea party on the ceiling, a staircase of black smoke to the city's top) characterized its handling.{{sfn|Casper|2011|p=1881}}}}

===Accolades===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;"
! colspan="6" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"| List of awards and nominations
|- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;"
! Award
! Date of ceremony
! Category
! Recipients and nominees
! Result
! {{abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
| rowspan="13"| [[Academy Awards]]
| rowspan="13"| [[37th Academy Awards|April 5, 1965]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]
| [[Walt Disney]] and [[Bill Walsh (producer)|Bill Walsh]]
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="13" align="center"| <ref name="Oscars1965">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1965 |title=The 37th Academy Awards (1965) Nominees and Winners |access-date=2011-08-24 |work=oscars.org |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031093059/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1965 |archive-date=2014-10-31}}</ref>
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Robert Stevenson (director)|Robert Stevenson]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| [[Julie Andrews]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium]]
| Bill Walsh and [[Don DaGradi]]
| {{nom}}
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| [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction – Color]]
| Art Direction: [[Carroll Clark]] and [[William H. Tuntke]]; <br> Set Decoration: [[Emile Kuri]] and [[Hal Gausman]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography – Color]]
| [[Edward Colman (cinematographer)|Edward Colman]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design – Color]]
| [[Tony Walton]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]
| [[Cotton Warburton]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Music Score – Substantially Original]]
| [[Richard M. Sherman]] and [[Robert B. Sherman]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Scoring of Music – Adaptation or Treatment]]
| [[Irwin Kostal]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Song]]
| "[[Chim Chim Cher-ee]]" <br> Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Sound|Best Sound]]
| [[Robert O. Cook]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Visual Effects|Best Special Visual Effects]]
| [[Peter Ellenshaw]], [[Eustace Lycett]] and [[Hamilton Luske]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[British Academy Film Awards]]
| [[18th British Academy Film Awards|1965]]
| [[BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles|Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles]]
| Julie Andrews
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1965/film/most-promising-newcomer-to-leading-film-roles |title=BAFTA Film – Most Promising Newcomer To Leading Film Roles in 1965 |work=bafta.org |access-date=12 July 2020 |archive-date=January 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129011102/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1965/film/most-promising-newcomer-to-leading-film-roles |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| [[Directors Guild of America Awards]]
| [[17th Directors Guild of America Awards|1965]]
| [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures]]
| Robert Stevenson
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1960s/1964.aspx?value=1964 |title=17th DGA Awards |website=Directors Guild of America Awards |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
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| rowspan="4"| [[Golden Globe Awards]]
| rowspan="4"| [[22nd Golden Globe Awards|February 8, 1965]]
| colspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="4" align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/mary-poppins |title=Mary Poppins – Golden Globes |website=HFPA |access-date=July 5, 2021 |ref={{harvid|HFPA|1965}}}}</ref>
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| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| [[Dick Van Dyke]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical|Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| Julie Andrews
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score – Motion Picture]]
| Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Grammy Awards]]
| rowspan="2"| [[7th Annual Grammy Awards|April 13, 1965]]
| [[Grammy Award for Best Album for Children|Best Recording for Children]]
| ''[[Mary Poppins: Original Cast Soundtrack]]'' <br> Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, [[Glynis Johns]], [[David Tomlinson]] and [[Ed Wynn]]
| {{won}}
| rowspan="2" align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/7th-annual-grammy-awards |title=1964 Grammy Award Winners| publisher=Grammy.com| access-date=1 May 2011}}</ref>
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| [[Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media|Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show]]
| ''Mary Poppins: Original Cast Soundtrack'' <br> Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
| {{won}}
|-
| Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
| 2005
| Best DVD (packaging, content and transfer)
| ''Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Edition''
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lvfcs.org/sierra-award-winners.html |title=2004 Sierra Award Winners |date=December 13, 2021 |access-date=January 31, 2022}}</ref>
|-
| [[Laurel Awards]]
| 1965
| Best Female Supporting Performance
| [[Glynis Johns]]
| {{won}}
| align="center"|<ref name="TodayShow2024">{{Cite web |title=Glynis Johns, best known for role in ''Mary Poppins'' as Mrs. Winifred Banks, dies at 100|first1=Alex|last1=Portée|first2=Diana|last2=Dasrath|url=https://www.today.com/popculture/glynis-johns-mary-poppins-actor-dies-100-rcna132381|access-date=5 January 2024 |website=[[Today (American TV program)|Today]]|date=4 January 2024 }}</ref>
|-
| [[New York Film Critics Circle|New York Film Critics Circle Awards]]
| [[1964 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|January 23, 1965]]
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| Julie Andrews
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nyfcc.com/awards/?awardyear=1964 |title=1964 New York Film Critics Circle Awards |website=New York Film Critics Circle |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3"| Online Film & Television Association Awards
| 2013
| colspan="2"| Hall of Fame – Motion Picture
| {{won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oftaawards.com/film-hall-of-fame/film-hall-of-fame-productions/ |title=Film Hall of Fame Productions |website=Online Film & Television Association |access-date=May 15, 2021}}</ref>
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| rowspan="2"| 2021
| Hall of Fame – Characters
| [[Mary Poppins (character)|Mary Poppins]]
| {{won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oftaawards.com/film-hall-of-fame/film-hall-of-fame-characters/ |title=Film Hall of Fame Inductees: Characters |website=Online Film & Television Association |access-date=May 15, 2021}}</ref>
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| Hall of Fame – Songs
| "[[Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious]]"
| {{won|Inducted}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oftaawards.com/film-hall-of-fame/film-hall-of-fame-songs/ |title=Film Hall of Fame Inductees: Songs |website=Online Film & Television Association |access-date=August 15, 2021}}</ref>
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| [[Writers Guild of America Awards]]
| [[17th Writers Guild of America Awards|1965]]
| [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical|Best Written American Musical]]
| Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wga.org/wga-awards/previous-nominees-winners2.aspx |title=Writers Guild Awards |work=wga.org |access-date=February 14, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224064308/http://www.wga.org/wga-awards/previous-nominees-winners2.aspx |archive-date=February 24, 2015}}</ref>
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== Legacy ==
[[File:Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke (Julie and Dick in Convent Garden) 1974 ABC TV Photograph.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Julie Andrews]] and [[Dick Van Dyke]] were reteamed in the TV-movie ''Julie and Dick at Covent Garden'' (1974), directed by Julie's husband [[Blake Edwards]].]]
''Mary Poppins'' is widely considered [[Walt Disney]]'s "crowning achievement".{{sfn|Müller|2004|p=260}} It was the only Disney film to receive a Best Picture nomination in his lifetime.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/11/saving-mr-banks-oscars |title=Is ''Saving Mr. Banks'' the Movie Oscar Voters Have Been Waiting For? |first1=Mike |last1=Rosen |first2=Christopher |last2=Hogan |date=November 11, 2013 |website=VFHollywood |access-date=November 29, 2015 |archive-date=November 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123110551/http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/11/saving-mr-banks-oscars |url-status=live}}</ref>

Some of the profits from the film were used to build the [[Walt Disney World Monorail System]]; reflecting this is the [[Walt Disney World Monorail System|MAPO]] (MAry POppins) safety system included on all Disney monorails. Walt Disney World's Railroad steam locomotives are also fitted with a boiler safety device marked ''MAPO''.

Never at ease with the handling of her property by Disney or the way she felt she had been treated, Travers never agreed to another Poppins/Disney adaptation. So fervent was her dislike of the Disney adaptation, and of how she felt she had been treated during the production, that when producer [[Cameron Mackintosh]] approached her about the [[Mary Poppins (musical)|stage musical]] in the 1990s, she acquiesced on the conditions that he use only English-born writers and that no one from the film production be directly involved.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ouzounian|first=Richard|title=P.L. Travers might have liked Mary Poppins onstage|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2013/12/13/pl_travers_might_have_liked_mary_poppins_onstage.html|access-date=March 6, 2014|newspaper=The Toronto Star|date=December 13, 2013|archive-date=March 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306203059/http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2013/12/13/pl_travers_might_have_liked_mary_poppins_onstage.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===American Film Institute===
* [[AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Songs]]:
** "[[Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious]]" – #36
* [[AFI's 100 Years of Musicals]] – #6<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/musicals_ballot.pdf|title=AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals – Official Ballot|access-date=February 14, 2015|archive-date=June 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624052845/http://afi.com/Docs/100Years/musicals_ballot.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Sequel ===
{{Main|Mary Poppins Returns}}
On December 19, 2018, [[Walt Disney Pictures]] released the film ''[[Mary Poppins Returns]]''. The film takes place 25 years after the original,<ref>{{cite web |title=The Magic Behind Mary Poppins Returns |url=https://disney.co.uk/movies/mary-poppins-returns/behind-the-magic |website=Disney UK |access-date=23 March 2019 |archive-date=March 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323193529/https://disney.co.uk/movies/mary-poppins-returns/behind-the-magic |url-status=live}}</ref> ''Mary Poppins'', and features a standalone narrative based on the remaining seven books in the series. [[Rob Marshall]] directed, while [[John DeLuca]] and [[Marc E. Platt|Marc Platt]] served as producers, with [[Emily Blunt]] starring as Poppins, co-starring Broadway actor Lin-Manuel Miranda. Dick Van Dyke returned to portray Mr. Dawes Jr. Karen Dotrice also appeared in a cameo role.

===TV airings===
The [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] television network currently owns the broadcast rights to the film. It most recently aired on November 28, 2024, which was preceded the previous day by a [[20/20 (American TV program)|20<sup>20</sup>]] special about the making of the film, “The Untold Story of Mary Poppins”, featuring previously unreleased production footage.

The documentary includes conversations with Dick Van Dyke, Josh Gad, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Walt Disney’s grandchildren. Julie Andrews also shared her memories of creating the original film.

== In popular culture ==
* Two episodes of ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'' reference the film. In the episode "The Hunter,", Ginger says "Are you Mary Ann or Mary Poppins?" In "And Then There Were None," Gilligan dreams he is on trial with Mary Poppins as his lawyer.
* In [[Neil Simon|Neil Simon's]] film version of ''[[The Odd Couple (film)|The Odd Couple]]'' (1968), Oscar Madison ([[Walter Matthau]]) says to his friends, "You get this one stinkin' night a week. I'm cooped up here with Mary Poppins twenty-four hours a day" (referring to Felix Unger ([[Jack Lemmon]]).
* The film inspired the [[The Simpsons (season 8)|eighth season]] episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' titled "[[Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious]]", featuring a parody of Mary called "Shary Bobbins" who helps out the Simpson family after Marge loses her hair due to stress, and spoofs of the songs "The Perfect Nanny", "A Spoonful of Sugar", "Feed the Birds" and "The Life I Lead".
* In Season 3 Episode 4 of ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'', Buddy Sorrell ([[Morey Amsterdam]]) is brainstorming about ideas for ''The Alan Brady Show'' and says, "how about if Alan comes out as a cockney chimney sweep but he is getting so fat he can't get down the chimney." Since the episode's air date (October 16, 1963) was after ''Mary Poppins'' finished filming (in September 1963) but before the film premiered (in 1964), this was both a wink to those behind the scenes who knew ''Mary Poppins'' was on the way and a nod to the character Dick Van Dyke plays in the movie.<ref>{{Citation|last=Rich|first=John|title=Very Old Shoes, Very Old Rice|date=1963-10-16|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0559859/?ref_=tt_cl_i1|type=Comedy, Family|others=Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews|publisher=Calvada Productions|access-date=2020-12-13|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521081049/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0559859/?ref_=tt_cl_i1|url-status=live}}</ref>
* In [[The Baby-Sitters Club]] books, Stacey takes a group of children on a shambolic outing to the Embassy Theatre to see ''Mary Poppins.''
* The penguin waiters and a silhouette of Mary Poppins appeared in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'', although the same penguins also appear by themselves on ''[[House of Mouse]]'' and ''[[Once Upon a Studio]]''.
* In ''[[The Boss Baby]]'', the titular character refers to Euguena the babysitter as "Scary Poppins" upon being captured along with his brother, Tim.
* In ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2]]'', Peter Quill tells Yondu Udonta that he looks like Mary Poppins, and then, Yondu Udonta yells, "I'm Mary Poppins, y'all!"

== See also ==
* [[List of American films of 1964]]

== Notes ==
{{Notelist}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

===Bibliography===
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* {{cite book|last=Casper|first=Drew|title=Hollywood Film 1963–1976: Years of Revolution and Reaction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=atUheFt_xSQC&pg=PA1976|date=March 1, 2011|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-4443-9523-5}}
* {{cite book|last=Grilli|first=Giorgia|title=Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xfyNAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA7|date=October 18, 2013|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-135-86801-7}}
* {{cite book|last1=Hillier|first1=Jim|last2=Pye|first2=Doug|title=100 Film Musicals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MWsdBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA136|date=May 24, 2011|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-84457-568-8}}
* {{cite book|last=Lawson|first=Valerie|title=Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8tQyAgAAQBAJ|date=December 3, 2013|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4767-6292-0}}
* {{cite book|last1=Marshall|first1=Bill|last2=Stilwell|first2=Robynn Jeananne|title=Musicals: Hollywood and Beyond|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=73XMoSSp8vYC|date=January 1, 2000|publisher=Intellect Books|isbn=978-1-84150-003-4}}
* Mayhall, Laura E Nym. "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4316653.pdf Domesticating Emmeline: Representing the Suffragette, 1930-1993]." ''NWSA Journal'' 11, no. 2 (1999): 1-24.
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* Pearce, Sharyn. "[[doi:10.1017/qre.2015.6|The Business of Myth-Making: ''Mary Poppins'', P.L. Travers and the Disney Effect]]." ''Queensland Review'' 22, no. 01 (2015): 62–74.
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* Stevenson, Ana. "[[doi:10.1215/02705346-6923118|'Cast Off the Shackles of Yesterday': Women's Suffrage in Walt Disney's ''Mary Poppins'']]." ''Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies'' 98, no. 2 (2018): 69–103.
* Szumsky, Brian E. "[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/35466 'All That Is Solid Melts into the Air': The Winds of Change and Other Analogues of Colonialism in Disney's ''Mary Poppins'']." ''The Lion and the Unicorn'' 24, no. 1 (2000): 97–109.
* {{cite book|last1=Williams|first1=Pat|last2=Denney|first2=James|title=How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life|url=https://archive.org/details/howtobelikewalt0000will|url-access=registration|date=August 1, 2004|publisher=Health Communications, Inc.|isbn=978-0-7573-0231-2}}

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