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Mary Poppins (1964)

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A magic nanny comes to work for a cold banker's unhappy family.

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Bert / Mr. Dawes Senior (as Navckid Keyd)
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Mr. Dawes Junior
James Logan ...
Bank Doorman
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Storyline

The movie combines songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers. Written by alfiehitchie

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See It Again and Again with that Supercalifragilistic Music! [re-release Australia 1976] See more »


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22 October 1965 (West Germany)  »

Also Known As:

Meri Popins  »

Box Office

Budget:

$6,000,000 (estimated)

Gross:

$102,300,000 (USA)
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(RCA Sound Recording)

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(Technicolor)

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1.66 : 1
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Trivia

Julie Andrews wore a wig in the movie. See more »

Goofs

After Mary Poppins powders her nose black, her face in the next scene is clean again. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Bert: All right, ladies an' gents! Comical poem! Suitable for the occasion, extemporized and thought up before your very eyes! All right, 'ere we go!
[sings]
Bert: Room 'ere for everyone. Gather around.
[speaks]
Bert: The constable - responstable! Now 'ow does that sound?
[no response]
Bert: Hm.
[dashes over to Miss Lark, sings]
Bert: 'Ello, Miss Lark, I've got one for you.
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Crazy Credits

In the end credit cast list, the actor playing Mr. Dawes, Sr. is initially shown as NAVCKID KEYD, then the letters unscramble themselves to show that this is a second role played by Dick Van Dyke. See more »

Connections

Edited into The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story (1999) See more »

Soundtracks

Jolly Holiday
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Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
Sung by Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews
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Brilliant metaphors that inspire the imagination!!
6 February 2005 | by (Caracas, Venezuela) – See all my reviews

I was a big fan of this movie when I was 6, loved it, visually it is fantastic and the music is just too beautiful. It's great fun, and its packed with amazing performances especially from the multi-talented and beautiful Julie Andrews.

I saw it again recently, may be I have more capacity to understand the double sense of things now and found out that this film has so many subliminal great messages that are enriching for the mind and soul...As a little girl I never cried on this film, but it has got so many reasons to cry for(I'm crying now)because it truly is beautiful. The film can be good for children because it actually can stimulate the imagination, and the creativity of a kid, I for example tried to arrange my room by making sounds with my fingers at some point of my life! Still the film contains some messages that can be quite interesting and useful for any other person of any other age.

SPOILERS***** Besides it contains some great effects, especially when you consider the time it was done(1964). Great dancing sequences, and especially those gorgeous songs(each one of them great). The animation part is brilliant, takes a genius to make that and coordinate those dancing penguins with the Bert character.

And I think that all the words that I could possibly say about this film are over, except tat this film is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Mary Poppins, practically perfectly in every way! A MUST SEE FILM!!


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