Mary Poppins

"The fairest of them all...the funniest of them all!"

1964 2h 19m EN

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7.5

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95%

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7.8

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★7.5TMDB · 5,123🍅95%Rotten Tomatoes●88Metacritic★7.8IMDB · 197,040

ComedyFamilyFantasy

Synopsis

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In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.

“The fairest of them all...the funniest of them all!”

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Cast

Julie Andrews
Mary Poppins
Dick Van Dyke
Bert / Mr. Dawes Sr.
David Tomlinson
Mr. Banks
Glynis Johns
Mrs. Banks
Hermione Baddeley
Ellen
Karen Dotrice
Jane Banks
Matthew Garber
Michael Banks
Elsa Lanchester
Katie Nanna

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Robert Stevenson
Writers: Don DaGradi, Bill Walsh
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Shot for just $4.7M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Grossed $103M — a 22.2× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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62 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Mary Poppins Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Robert Stevenson, shot by Edward Colman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Richard M. Sherman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Cotton Warburton shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke and David Tomlinson carry the top of the cast.

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The take

Robert Stevenson directs. Edward Colman behind the camera. Richard M. Sherman scores. Cotton Warburton cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $4.7M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Grossed $103M — a 22.2× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
362 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
4Part of the "Mary Poppins Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Robert Stevenson, shot by Edward Colman. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Richard M. Sherman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Cotton Warburton shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke and David Tomlinson carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "The fairest of them all...the funniest of them all!".
10IMDB entry: tt0058331 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 34 themes, including "banker", "london, england", "sibling relationship", "based on novel or book".

The technical file

Cinematography: Edward Colman
Original score: Richard M. Sherman
Editing: Cotton Warburton
Makeup / hair: Pat McNalley
Runtime: 139 min · 2h 19m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $4,650,000
Box office: $103,100,000
Return: 2217% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): G
IMDB: Mary Poppins (1964)
Rotten Tomatoes: 95% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 88/100
IMDB rating: 7.8/10 · 197,040 votes
MPAA: G

Awards

Won 5 Oscars. 23 wins & 17 nominations total

Academy Award for Best Original Score
Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
Academy Award for Best Original Song
Academy Award for Best Actress

Individual records documented via Wikidata; the summary above may count more.

Part of

Mary Poppins Collection

Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers. A sequel, Mary Poppins Returns, was released in 2018, making it one of the longest gaps between film sequels in cinematic history at 54 years.

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DanDare2017-03-04
★ 4/10
Set in Edwardian London, Jane and Michael Banks are two children in a middle class London suburb. Their parents are distant from the children and each nanny they employ leaves in exasperation after the chaos the children cause. The children's father is a banker who is cold towards them and their mother is too busy with the suffragette movement.They want the perfect nanny and in a sudden gust of wind, Mary Poppins drops by. She possesses magical powers such as a bottomless handbag. Mary Poppins changes the life of the children and also meets up with her friend Bert, the one man band. Mary Poppins combines live action with Disney animation as well as some memorable songs and in Dick Van Dyke an unforgettable cockney accent. The movie is regarded as a Disney classic but I found the animation to be below average, the film overlong and not all that amusing.
Andre Gonzales2023-07-18
★ 9/10
Of course everyone knows Mary Poppins. Loved it growing up. My family loves it now. I also still love this movie. I always will. Classic!
CinemaSerf2024-01-01
★ 7/10
I don't think I'd ever actually watched this film all the way through before, but it is well worth it. "Jane" (Karen Dotrice) and brother "Michael" (Matthew Garber) are ploughing through their nannies with Von Trapp style enthusiasm when father "George" (David Tomlinson) decides to wrest control of the recruitment process from suffragette wife "Winnifred" (Glynis Johns) to hopefully find a more permanent solution. They come up with the text for an advertisement in "The Times". Meantime, the children come up with their own, much more playful, agenda. The parents listen politely then, quite literally, up the chimney that goes. Straight into the hands of our eponymous, brolly wielding, nanny (Julie Andrews) who duly arrives and within five minutes has just about everyone eating our of her hands. What now ensues is a gently comedic series of escapades as the kids meet friendly chimneysweep "Bert" (Dick Van Dyke), the giggling-obsessed "Uncle Albert" (Ed Wynn), the lady who feeds the birds (Jane Darwell) all whilst being looked after from above by the meticulous "Admiral Boom" (Reginald Owen) - his eight o'clock gun will do more than clear the air. The Sherman brothers are on top form with some toe-tappers and delightful ballads that are sung by the cast we can see, often accompanied by some magical visual effects or some ensemble dances, and they help to convey a story of love, kindness and affection, of curiosity and ultimately, I felt anyway, of keeping things in perspective. Of getting your priorities straight. Sure, the animation section in the zoo is maybe a little bit long, but for the most part this 2¼ hour long extravaganza is engagingly entertaining with Andrews and Van Dyke creating a chemistry all of their own; a practically perfect supporting cast - particularly Johns - and a story that glows in it's own simplicity.