The History of Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins was a book written by P.L. Travers on 1934. This book had a lot of success and for that reason Walt Disney decided that he wanted to obtain the film rights to her story. Even though it seems like a very fascinating idea, because of the impact it had and for the monitory issue, Pamela did not agree at first; it took 20 years of trying and insisting for Walt to finally acquire the rights, but under certain conditions. Travers was very doubtful about letting Disney to adapt her book because she really disliked animated films and that was what Walt was known for. However, the contract was made and since that moment Travers started to work with the team. As the days passed the team began to notice how personal the Mary Poppins story were to the Lady so they realized that all of the characters were in fact inspired by her own past meaning that they really existed. In effect, that was the real reason of her fear to letting Walt have the film right, she did not want the characters to be different from the book.

Mary Poppins was known as a magical nanny that was hired by the Bank family to try to calm down their children, children that use to get the attention of their father by making all the nannies wanting to go away. But every time Mr. Bank hired another nanny the children told him that it had to be someone kind and with imagination. When Mary Poppins arrived to the house she immediately got the attention of them due to the reason that she came down from the sky only with her umbrella and since then everything started to change in that family.