Never need a reason, never need a rhyme: Mary Poppins is out of step with the times. That's according to an Oregon professor who wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times that asserts the 1964 ...

An op-ed from The New York Times is challenging readers to see one of the most beloved scenes from 1964’s Mary Poppins in an entirely new light — but not everyone’s buying it.

The Linfield College literature professor linked the scene to P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins books, which he claims "associate chimney sweeps' blackened faces with racial caricatures." ...

Julie Andrews as "Mary Poppins" in the original 1964 film. This Friday, audiences will get the chance to go behind the scenes of the beloved classic “Mary Poppins” with “Saving Mr. Banks.” ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) - Social media is in uproar after a U.S. academic accused Disney's 1964 classic film "Mary Poppins" of promoting 'blackface' in the famous chimney sweeping scene.

Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) and P.L. Travers, author of “Mary Poppins.” Everett Collection/News.com.au. Some of Travers’ characters who didn’t appear in the 1964 movie made it into the ...

Turns out the famous "spoonful of sugar" scene is full of more wisdom than I thought. This is exactly what happened to me when I re-watched the 1964 Mary Poppins movie (you know, the one with ...

The cast of “Mary Poppins Returns” defended the movie’s songs that were dubbed by some critics as “forgettable.” Lin-Manuel Miranda told the BBC that the sequel wasn’t “trying to ...

Screenwriter David Magee had a similar relationship with the 1964 feature. “‘Mary Poppins’ was a film from my childhood; it was something baked into all of our DNAs,” he said.