Banks,” directed by John Lee Hancock, depicts her tense relationship with Disney during the planning of the 1964 film she disliked the Sherman Brothers’ score, hated the idea of animation, and thought the movie was too sugary.įilming wrapped on May 21, 1963, but there remained six more months of animation to do. Walt Disney pursued Travers for years, and the 2013 film “Saving Mr. 21, 1957, Paul Gregory said he was gearing up a 90-minute TV special, hoping to land Hepburn to play the title role. (Rome later wrote the 1962 musical “I Can Get It For You Wholesale,” which proved a career breakthrough for Barbra Streisand.) The network eyed a TV musical with a score by Harold Rome, who had a recent Broadway hit with “Fanny.” That never happened either. In May 9, 1956, a Variety story said that CBS owned rights to the books. 11, 1950, Variety reported that Goldwyn had bought rights to three “Mary Poppins” books and planned to bring Travers to Hollywood to collaborate on the screenplay. The 1949 TV adaptation was part of CBS’ “Studio One” omnibus series, a one-hour show scripted by Worthington Miner and with an all-American cast led by Mary Wickes (whose many credits include the 1942 “The Man Who Came to Dinner” through 1992’s “Sister Act”).
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