Glynis Johns--May she rest in peace!--also played the nefarious Lady Penelope Peasoup, the partner-in-crime of her perfidious brother, Lord Marmaduke Ffogg on the original 1960s Batman TV series.
@@erinesque1889”I’ve got it! I’ve got it. The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true, right?” “Right. But there’s been a change. They broke the chalice from the palace.” “They broke the chalice from the palace?” “And replaced it with a flagon.” “Flagon.” “With a figure of a dragon.” “Flagon with a dragon.” “Right.”
While pitch correction was a thing then, yea they probably didn't use it. What they probably DID do, was sing multiple takes and splice the best takes together. Also. Julie Andrews' voice is still magic.
@@moonbrooke27 Pitch correction the way you mean it was not a thing back then. Yes, you could speed up and slow down a tape but you couldn't do that and sync to the visual image. However I really do get tired of people going "tHeY dIdN't hAvE aUtoTuNe" (and I'm probably older than all of you).
@moonbrooke27: Dame Julie Andrews was a trained classical singer who sang for Queen Elizabeth II, in vaudeville, had a four octave singing range, and was Eliza Dolittle in "My Fair Lady," on Broadway. She didn't need her voice to be spliced together. She was and will always be perfection. ❤
Now you need to see Saving Mr. Banks, the somewhat fictionalized version of the story of how Disney got the rights to make the movie. A must see for anyone who likes Mary Poppins.
Fun fact: Mr Dawes Sr (the old man at the bank who died laughing) was played by Dick VanDyke. And then in the sequel, his son Mr Dawes Jr, is played by Dick VanDyke. In the original they used make-up to age him up, in the sequel he already was that age and hardly needed make-up.
This was such a huge part of my childhood. I was lucky enough to meet Julie Andrews at a book convention back in 2001, and while she was signing my book, all I could think was “I am standing three feet away from Mary Frickin’ Poppins!!!” She was delightful and utterly gorgeous, everything I ever imagined.
oh lucky!!! i remember about that time going to a book singing and lunette and molly from big comfy couch were there. that's my claim to fame lol id probably be in tears if i ever saw julie in real life!
There is an old tradition that shaking a chimney sweep’s hand will bring you good luck. Sweeps were sometimes asked to appear at weddings and shake the hands of the groom and kiss the bride to bring good fortune. In the scenes with the sweeps, everyone shakes hands with them.
Every photo I have ever seen (and even scenes from movies) it is a simple quick one on the cheek or side of the face. And the sweep doesn’t want to be in such close contact that the bride’s dress would be in danger of getting dust on it. It is meant to be a charming little act, and mostly to maintain old traditions like “something borrowed, something blue”, not a sexual expression to be taken seriously. @@summerrose8110
The Nanny who quits at the begining of the movie was played by Elsa Lancaster. She also played the Nurse in "Witness for the Prosecution" and was "The Bride of Frankenstein".
She was also in an episode of I Love Lucy! She drove Lucy and Ethel to Florida, but on that drive they each thought the other party was an escaped axe murderer 😂😂😂
Mary Poppins is a Timelord. Her bag is her TARDIS, her umbrella is her equivalent to a sonic screwdriver. Even her name is like a Timelord in that it's not really a name but a description of her. She and the kids have a lot of self contained adventure where they jump into a fun adventure. They have merry pop-ins to various magical places.
The Bird Woman was played by Jane Darwell in the final film role of her fifty-year career. She is probably best known as Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940) with Henry Fonda.
I heard that it was his vocal coach who led him astray, and no one said a word about his accent. Because of Mary Poppins, he refused to put on another accent for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
That scene where Angela Lansbury uses witchcraft to take on the worst of the worst is fantastic. I'll watch the effects in this and in that movie before I watch any CGI.
Bedknobs & Broomsticks is an absolute MUST! Another amazing Disney film that combines real life and animation. It stars none other than Mr Banks himself, David Tomlinson & the wonderful Angela Lansbury
This is one of those movies, like Wizard of Oz, that you can watch 100 times and never get tired of watching. The animation for being done in the 60's is incredible. Thanks
I’m not sure if anyone else said this but feed the birds was one of Walt Disney‘s favorite songs, whenever he felt sad he had a piano in his office, and he would ask for them to play feed the birds. And also, it’s like one of my favorite songs too.
You should watch Saving Mr. Banks. It is a story of the true story of the one who wrote Mary Poppins and how she didn't want to make her book a movie, but facing financial ruin, needed money. It is really well put together. Emma Thompson play P.L. Travers(auther of Mary Poppins) and Tom Hanks plays Walt Disney.
A brilliant film in all respects with a uniformly excellent cast, but David Tomlinson as Mr. Banks deserves special mention. He plays the comedy perfectly by playing it stone serious, but it's after the fiasco at the bank that he truly shines. He effortlessly and quietly projects the most palpable and profound sense of despair and then an equally palpable sense that he is genuinely and truly changed. To me, his performance is a revelation and I find it deeply moving.
I totally agree. His personal life prior to this movie was incredibly tragic, so I imagine he was easily able to draw on that for the despair and stoicism.
The dance of the chimney sweeps was really amazingly choreographed and filmed. Mary Poppins won Academy awards for its music, special effects, and editing. And it still hits you in the feels.
I was 6 when I saw this movie in 1964. I still eat cereal with my Mary Poppins spoon that I got at that time. This is a movie that children of all ages should see.
This movie was Supercalifragilisticexpalidocious. Saw it in a theater when it was first out. I was pretty young then. Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke lit up the screen.
I saw this when it first came out, I was just a little one at the time. And, I've seen it numerous times since. When I was younger, "Feed The Birds" bored me to tears...now that I'm older, it's my favorite song and it brings me to tears. I was so emotional when I realized this wasn't about a nanny for the children, but she's there for the father. It's all about bringing their family together...love it!
My single mother, grandparents and I saw it when I was six at the theather. My mother took my to see it 6 or 7 times along with Sound of Music. She felt weird seeing kids movies by herself so always took me along.
I spent a significant amount of my childhood (when watching this movie) trying to figure out how to make my pants do what Berts does with the penguin scene. I was a teen when I realized it was magic and not possible. 😂😅
One of my favorite Disney movies. I hope you enjoy it. I'm not ashamed to say I unironically sing the songs from this to myself. I think the first time I saw this, I was about 3 years old at my grandma's house, just after a blizzard
"Tuppence" is colloquial British English for "two pence." If you'd find tuppence on the ground before you, it's considered an omen of good luck, much as shaking the hand of a chimney sweep--a wedding day tradition--is said to guarantee a happy marriage.
I'll never get over first learning that Katy Nana's actress Elsa Lanchester was also the original Bride of Frankenstein. First I heard that I went "Hey what's under the hat Nana?" lmao
Nominated for 12 Academy Awards including Best Picture but won for Best Visual Effects, Best Actress, Best Film Editing and Best Original Score. It lost Best Picture to the epic musical comedy My Fair Lady which won 8 Oscars.
Julie Andrews had starred in the Broadway production of My Fair Lady a few years earlier, but was rejected for the film version by Jack Warner because he wanted an established film star. As a result, she was available when Walt offered her this role. When she won the Oscar, she made a point of thanking Warner in her acceptance speech.
I shouldn't admit this, but I was in my 20s when I finally got the punchlines: "A little down in the mouth" and "Stands around all day making faces". 🤣 OG dad jokes.
Glad you liked this one. It’s a classic from my childhood. Also, The Sound of Music is one of the most wonderful, memorable films of that time. I’ve seen other reactors react to it, so it can be done, but there is a lot of editing to be done around the music. Worth the view, though. Thanks for this one.
My mother would have been 98 March 6 2024 today. one of my most fond memeories was wtahxcing Mary Poppins int he theater with her and my late little brother. chin Chim Cheree won best song Oscar for this movie. Dick Van Dyke was very popular at the saem this movie was made having been in Bye Bye Birdie musical, and having his own not classic sitcom, 1961 to 1966, the Dick VanDyke Show. That's why he was chosen for te movie, plus a super talent. The whole cast was great.
Besides playing Bert, the chimney sweep, Dick Van Dyke also played the old banker who first appears at 26:00. Van Dyke has been teased forever for his bad cockney accent in this film but the man is full of talent.
The Bird Woman was played by old Hollywood veteran, Jane Darwell, who played Ma Joad in John Ford's "The Grapes of Wrath." Walt Disney really loved the song, "Feed the Birds." It comforted him.
I agree with @courtneywallace871! You MUST see Saving Mr. Banks now. Really-soon. Tom Hanks plays Walt Disney, and Emma Thompson plays the author of the Mary Poppins books. They’re wonderful in it. It really is a good movie, and a fascinating (and mostly true) story about how Disney obtained the rights to make the film version of Mary Poppins.
My dad took me and my brother to see this when it came out. I was 10, my brother was 8. It is a memory I will always have. That Christmas we got the album of the sound track and drove our parents nuts singing the songs.
Julie Andrews had played Eliza Doolittle in the Broadway version of My Fair Lady for years. She thought she was a lock for the same role in the film version, but the studio wanted a bigger star. So they cast Audrey Hepburn instead. Andrews took this role instead and it was her breakout role. Mary Poppins beat out My Fair Lady as the top box office film of 1964. Andrews also won the Golden Globe and the Oscar for this role. In her acceptance speech for the Golden Globe, Andrews made a subtle jab at Jack Warner of Warner Brothers for choosing Hepburn over her.
I was 4 when this movie came out, and it's pretty much my earliest movie-going memory. We had the soundtrack on album, and I still have virtually the entire thing memorized even after all this time.
Such a classic full of magic, whimsy and fun. Thank you for the great reaction! You should definitely watch Sound of Music. Also, My Fair Lady with Audrey Hepburn is a great one as well.
Love this movie! So glad you watched it. You like animation and real life combined? Try "Bedknobs and Broomsticks". The actor who played Mr. Banks (David Tomlinson) is in that one, along with Angela Lansbury!
My favorite of all of the Disney Films. I saw this as a child. Now, I'm 57. If you like Julie Andrews, you need to watch The Sound of Music. Katie Nanna, the nanny who quits at the beginning of the film, played The Bride in The Bride of Frankenstein. In the sequel, Mary Poppins Returns (2018), Dick Van Dyke makes a cameo, playing the bank president's son, now an older old man. He looks like his dad, who died laughing at the end of the original. He should, both are played by Dick Van Dyke, now in his early 90s. He said it was funny that they were making up a 90 year old man, to look like a 90 year old man! The little girl who played Jane Banks, now grown, also has a cameo in the sequel.
A great follow up to this film is Disney's "Saving Mr. Banks" about how Walt got the rights to the story and then had to contend with its author. Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, and Colin Farrell. Lovely film even if it is Disney mythology. :)
The "Sister Suffragette" song was spiced with historical references. It referred to Mrs. Pankurst; the Pankhursts were a family of British suffragettes who led that movement in the UK. The lyric, "Shoulder to Shoulder into the Fray" is a reference to the "March of the Women" suffragette anthem--which is similar to this song!--composed by Dame Ethel Smyth, who was once locked up for her activism and subsequently led a contingent of suffragettes outside her prison into singing "March of the Women," as she conducted them from her jail cell window--with her toothbrush! She later said that was her finest performance! (There are several versions of "March of the Women" on TH-cam!) Votes for Women!!!!
This like "The Wizard of Oz" played on one of the three national networks once a year in the 70s and 80s. So we saw it many times growing up. "Sound of Music" was another that played once a year as other movies.
Basically Mary (and Bert) end up teaching the parents more than the kids and it's less about getting a new nanny than spending time with the children themseves. The lovely Julie Andrews has the most iconic of roles in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music.
Even for the 1960s, this movie showed a VERY advanced combining of live action with animation. A lot of that is due to Walt Disney himself, to his insistence on attention to detail and asking his animators to always add a new special bit wherever possible.
I just literally dropped everything. You've never seen Mary Poppins?!?! I blame your parents. I watched this repeatedly when I was a kid...and now my 7 year old does too. Loves every single song. I can't wait to see this, I hope you love it as much as we do!
But Mary Poppins did it first. I don’t think there was anything like it back in the 60s. Fun fact, the author of the book this was based on extremely disliked the mix of live action and animation. When I was a kid in the 70s, there was a show about Luce action Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huckleberry Finn in an animated world.
I was enchanted by this movie as a kid, has the soundtrack and knew it by heart. Then I didn't see it for years again until I was about 20 and I was like, "This movie is actually really about something very serious"!
_Admiral Boom_ just got 'Mary Poppins' cancelled here in the UK (31:30) Well, not _exactly_ cancelled, but certainly recategorised. Just in the past week the movie 'Mary Poppins' went from a 'U' rating (Universal) to 'PG' (Parental Guidance). That means that at public screenings, children must be accompanied by an ADULT to provide particular guidance that the word 'Hottentot' should NOT be uttered, because it's an old colonial racist word for (a particular?) African tribe. S'there! It's the wind of change since the 1960s
It comes from the Dutch/Afrikaans "Hotten-Totten," meaning "stutterer" or "stammerer," in reference to the clicks and whistles in most Khoisan languages of southern Africa.
I hadn't watched this since I was a kid, and at one point in my early 40s a friend lent me a bunch of DVDs when I was sick at home. I was amazed at how well it held up. As utterly charming and delightful as ever!
Hilarious blooper : Mary Poppins enters the Banks' house wearing a pair of white gloves. But, at 10:20 a black gloved hand is holding the reconstituted advertisement.
So glad you enjoyed it! This was another staple like Sound of Music, Wizard of Oz, & My Fair Lady That I used to watch every year and it’s just part of the soundtrack of my life. Such fun!
Notice that the Carosel horses looked like a caricature of their rider. Disney artists did that a lot with many of their voice-over talents. They would make the animated characters look like the actors voicing them.
Watching as an adult you can see the story is about saving Mr Banks. He is so concerned about his social position, he can't show affection for his wife or children. At the end he stops worrying so much what other adults think and can enjoy being with his children. Oh, just go fly a kite.
I saw it with at a movie theater in Los Angeles when I was 9 in 4th grade 1964. I know I had to wear my first pair of glasses. I think our dad dropped us off on our visits at the movies as usual while he worked. He was adored and fun so there was no connection in my mind with this horrible banker dad. I only realized now that the absent Dad theme was strong in the movie. This was THE movie everyone HAD to see back then. The word “supercalifragileisticexpialidocious” had to be practiced nonstop and mastered asap!!!!!! I had forgotten a lot of things about this movie! Great reaction!!!!!!!!
Like Mary herself this film is practicallly perfect in every way. Somewhere on the net is a photo of the chimney sweeps rehearsing - in tank tops, shorts on a rough outdoor rooftop set in Burbank
My favorite watch. Can recite entire sections of this film, and do all the barn animals voices. Just makes you smile, as Walt wanted everyone to do. 'Saving Mr. Banks' is a newer film that shows how Mary Poppins was made. You could watch that on your own.
Your reaction gave me such joy! Saw this with me mum and my brother then we 6 and 8. She was the best movie person to watch a movie with and you so brought back beautiful memories like a friend therr watching as well.
I'm literally 15 Min walk from St Paul's cathedral lol, it's an amazing building, it has a whispering gallery if one person stands on one side and whispers, others on the other side can hear them clearly.
Mary Poppins did a great job of mixing animation with live action, especially for the day. Of course, you've already seen the very best movie to mix animation and live action, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. If you want more, though, you could watch Space Jam (the original 1996 film).
What a treat to see this in my subscriptions when I had so innocently went onto TH-cam to look up videos of Julie Andrews......this was a distraction that was truly mean to be! Thank you from quite possibly the biggest Julie Andrews devotee....like....ever, but I know that there are others like me out there, so maybe I'm not the "biggest" but I'm one of them!
This is definitely a film I first saw at the drive-in. I still watch it every few years, so entertaining. I agree with other commenters you should watch "Saving Mr. Banks". Also The Simpsons parody episode 'Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious' which features a nanny called Shary Bobbins. Glynis Johns who played Winifred Banks passed away on Jan. 4th of this year at age 100.
My 2 favorite movies a s a kid were The Wizard of Oz and Marry Poppins. I had just left this comment on my fb page Winds in the east, mist coming in. Like somethin' is brewin' 'bout to begin. Can't put me finger on what lies in store, But I feel what's to happen all happened before Because I'm feeling like I may be getting sick and then I go on TH-cam and this is the first thing I see and it says posted 12 minutes ago probably right after I put up my post...lol. stuff like this always happens to me, lol.
A lovely reaction; thank you. I have always thought that Mary Poppins, in the film, is supposed to be an angel - an agent of divine intervention. Like the ghosts in A Christmas Carol, and for the same reason: restrictive middle-class English mores are so spiritually deadening as to leave the soul no room to breathe and grow.)
The actress who played Mrs. Banks passed away last month. She lived to be 100.
She was so wonderful. I grew up loving her in this, and in the hilarious The Court Jester.
@@torontomameI also adore Court Jester!! It’s so so funny!
She (Glynnas Johns) also played Grandma in "While You Were Sleeping".
Glynis Johns--May she rest in peace!--also played the nefarious Lady Penelope Peasoup, the partner-in-crime of her perfidious brother, Lord Marmaduke Ffogg on the original 1960s Batman TV series.
@@erinesque1889”I’ve got it! I’ve got it. The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true, right?” “Right. But there’s been a change. They broke the chalice from the palace.” “They broke the chalice from the palace?” “And replaced it with a flagon.” “Flagon.” “With a figure of a dragon.” “Flagon with a dragon.” “Right.”
Remember they is no pitch correction or autotune. Her voice was magic
While pitch correction was a thing then, yea they probably didn't use it. What they probably DID do, was sing multiple takes and splice the best takes together.
Also. Julie Andrews' voice is still magic.
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@@moonbrooke27 Pitch correction the way you mean it was not a thing back then. Yes, you could speed up and slow down a tape but you couldn't do that and sync to the visual image.
However I really do get tired of people going "tHeY dIdN't hAvE aUtoTuNe" (and I'm probably older than all of you).
@moonbrooke27: Dame Julie Andrews was a trained classical singer who sang for Queen Elizabeth II, in vaudeville, had a four octave singing range, and was Eliza Dolittle in "My Fair Lady," on Broadway. She didn't need her voice to be spliced together. She was and will always be perfection. ❤
@@VineVitumEt5 I did say her voice was still magic. I'm just tired of people claiming things they can't know.
Now you need to see Saving Mr. Banks, the somewhat fictionalized version of the story of how Disney got the rights to make the movie. A must see for anyone who likes Mary Poppins.
And it stars Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks, who are always great to watch.
Yes, yes, a hundred times yes. Beautiful and heartbreaking.
I was going to suggest the same thing! Saving Mr. Banks is a FANTASTIC film!!
I was going to say the same thing. "Saving Mr. Banks" is a must-watch for any "Mary Poppins" fan.
With the original movie as reference, my suggestion as well.
“Oh George, you didn’t jump in the river. How sensible of you.”
That line always gets me
Brilliant
Fun fact: Mr Dawes Sr (the old man at the bank who died laughing) was played by Dick VanDyke. And then in the sequel, his son Mr Dawes Jr, is played by Dick VanDyke. In the original they used make-up to age him up, in the sequel he already was that age and hardly needed make-up.
This was such a huge part of my childhood. I was lucky enough to meet Julie Andrews at a book convention back in 2001, and while she was signing my book, all I could think was “I am standing three feet away from Mary Frickin’ Poppins!!!” She was delightful and utterly gorgeous, everything I ever imagined.
oh lucky!!! i remember about that time going to a book singing and lunette and molly from big comfy couch were there. that's my claim to fame lol id probably be in tears if i ever saw julie in real life!
I got to meet her when I was 5. I got a hug from her. I am in my 60s and it is THE highlight of my life ❤
There is an old tradition that shaking a chimney sweep’s hand will bring you good luck. Sweeps were sometimes asked to appear at weddings and shake the hands of the groom and kiss the bride to bring good fortune. In the scenes with the sweeps, everyone shakes hands with them.
Every photo I have ever seen (and even scenes from movies) it is a simple quick one on the cheek or side of the face. And the sweep doesn’t want to be in such close contact that the bride’s dress would be in danger of getting dust on it. It is meant to be a charming little act, and mostly to maintain old traditions like “something borrowed, something blue”, not a sexual expression to be taken seriously. @@summerrose8110
Good to know
The Nanny who quits at the begining of the movie was played by Elsa Lancaster. She also played the Nurse in "Witness for the Prosecution" and was "The Bride of Frankenstein".
She was also in an episode of I Love Lucy! She drove Lucy and Ethel to Florida, but on that drive they each thought the other party was an escaped axe murderer 😂😂😂
Oh man, for years I thought she was the maid 🫣
Oh my God! I love Bride of Frankenstein and never realised it was the same person! Thank you! Haha
Mary Poppins is a Timelord. Her bag is her TARDIS, her umbrella is her equivalent to a sonic screwdriver. Even her name is like a Timelord in that it's not really a name but a description of her. She and the kids have a lot of self contained adventure where they jump into a fun adventure. They have merry pop-ins to various magical places.
She regenerated into Emily Blunt! :)
The Bird Woman was played by Jane Darwell in the final film role of her fifty-year career. She is probably best known as Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940) with Henry Fonda.
Dick Van Dyke has said sorry for his"English" accent many times.In fact it was a running joke for many years here in the UK,
‘Ello guvner
At this point he'd just like to know that he's been forgiven.
I heard he tried a genuine cockney accent and it was much worse than what we got.
I heard that it was his vocal coach who led him astray, and no one said a word about his accent. Because of Mary Poppins, he refused to put on another accent for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
I recommend the Disney movie "Bedknops and Broomsticks" (1971).
That scene where Angela Lansbury uses witchcraft to take on the worst of the worst is fantastic. I'll watch the effects in this and in that movie before I watch any CGI.
Julie andrews was originally thought of for Broomsticks.
Yes, such a great movie!!!❤
Yes! And "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"!
*Bedknobs.
Bedknobs & Broomsticks is an absolute MUST! Another amazing Disney film that combines real life and animation. It stars none other than Mr Banks himself, David Tomlinson & the wonderful Angela Lansbury
Wow beat me to it but such a great movie )
Wizard of OZ and Marry Poppins are the types of movies we would watch every year for decades.
This is one of those movies, like Wizard of Oz, that you can watch 100 times and never get tired of watching. The animation for being done in the 60's is incredible. Thanks
I’m not sure if anyone else said this but feed the birds was one of Walt Disney‘s favorite songs, whenever he felt sad he had a piano in his office, and he would ask for them to play feed the birds. And also, it’s like one of my favorite songs too.
You should watch Saving Mr. Banks. It is a story of the true story of the one who wrote Mary Poppins and how she didn't want to make her book a movie, but facing financial ruin, needed money. It is really well put together. Emma Thompson play P.L. Travers(auther of Mary Poppins) and Tom Hanks plays Walt Disney.
A brilliant film in all respects with a uniformly excellent cast, but David Tomlinson as Mr. Banks deserves special mention. He plays the comedy perfectly by playing it stone serious, but it's after the fiasco at the bank that he truly shines. He effortlessly and quietly projects the most palpable and profound sense of despair and then an equally palpable sense that he is genuinely and truly changed. To me, his performance is a revelation and I find it deeply moving.
I totally agree. His personal life prior to this movie was incredibly tragic, so I imagine he was easily able to draw on that for the despair and stoicism.
The dance of the chimney sweeps was really amazingly choreographed and filmed. Mary Poppins won Academy awards for its music, special effects, and editing. And it still hits you in the feels.
Choreography by the wife-and-husband team of Dee Dee Wood and Marc Breaux.
If the Banks kids thought Katy Nana was a monster, they'd be right; Elsa Lanchester's other famous role was "The Bride of Frankenstein."
I was 6 when I saw this movie in 1964. I still eat cereal with my Mary Poppins spoon that I got at that time. This is a movie that children of all ages should see.
I saw it sometime in the early 1980s on cable TV. I was probably older than 6, but not by too much.
The part in the house is my favorite. “AUGH! They’re at it again!
“What’s all this? What’s all this? What’s all this?”
😂😂😂😂
This movie was Supercalifragilisticexpalidocious. Saw it in a theater when it was first out. I was pretty young then. Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke lit up the screen.
I saw this when it first came out, I was just a little one at the time. And, I've seen it numerous times since. When I was younger, "Feed The Birds" bored me to tears...now that I'm older, it's my favorite song and it brings me to tears. I was so emotional when I realized this wasn't about a nanny for the children, but she's there for the father. It's all about bringing their family together...love it!
My single mother, grandparents and I saw it when I was six at the theather. My mother took my to see it 6 or 7 times along with Sound of Music. She felt weird seeing kids movies by herself so always took me along.
This was my favorite movie when I was a kid! Julie Andrews (88) and Dick Van Dyke (98) are thankfully still with us!
I'm not a big Disney fan, but Mary Poppins will always be one of those essential childhood movies to me, It's timeless. Everyone should see it.
I spent a significant amount of my childhood (when watching this movie) trying to figure out how to make my pants do what Berts does with the penguin scene. I was a teen when I realized it was magic and not possible. 😂😅
The last of the two composers of this movie just passed away. RIP Richard Sherman.
Uncle Albert is played by Ed Wynn, whose voice you *might* recognize as the voice of the Mad Hatter from Disney's Alice in Wonderland.
I love that. Every time I watch this movie I always say, “Hi Mad Hatter!”.
That laugh is so much fun.
"LOOK!! THE BANK WON'T GIVE SOMEONE THEIR MONEY!!" Full scale PANIC!! LMAO!!!
I'll never be ashamed to say that I'm a grown man in his 40's .. loved that movie as a child. Some scenes still make me cry. One icon of a movie
9:15 Mary Poppins blowing away the competition.
One of my favorite Disney movies. I hope you enjoy it.
I'm not ashamed to say I unironically sing the songs from this to myself.
I think the first time I saw this, I was about 3 years old at my grandma's house, just after a blizzard
"Tuppence" is colloquial British English for "two pence." If you'd find tuppence on the ground before you, it's considered an omen of good luck, much as shaking the hand of a chimney sweep--a wedding day tradition--is said to guarantee a happy marriage.
I'll never get over first learning that Katy Nana's actress Elsa Lanchester was also the original Bride of Frankenstein. First I heard that I went "Hey what's under the hat Nana?" lmao
Nominated for 12 Academy Awards including Best Picture but won for Best Visual Effects, Best Actress, Best Film Editing and Best Original Score.
It lost Best Picture to the epic musical comedy My Fair Lady which won 8 Oscars.
Julie Andrews had starred in the Broadway production of My Fair Lady a few years earlier, but was rejected for the film version by Jack Warner because he wanted an established film star. As a result, she was available when Walt offered her this role. When she won the Oscar, she made a point of thanking Warner in her acceptance speech.
I shouldn't admit this, but I was in my 20s when I finally got the punchlines: "A little down in the mouth" and "Stands around all day making faces". 🤣 OG dad jokes.
A wooden leg named Smith ... A wooden leg named Smith ...
I'm 69 & haven't seen this movie in decades! I smiled all the way through! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the memory!!
The penguins were waiters in the club in " Who Framed Roger Rabbit ".
Glad you liked this one. It’s a classic from my childhood. Also, The Sound of Music is one of the most wonderful, memorable films of that time. I’ve seen other reactors react to it, so it can be done, but there is a lot of editing to be done around the music. Worth the view, though. Thanks for this one.
My mother would have been 98 March 6 2024 today. one of my most fond memeories was wtahxcing Mary Poppins int he theater with her and my late little brother. chin Chim Cheree won best song Oscar for this movie. Dick Van Dyke was very popular at the saem this movie was made having been in Bye Bye Birdie musical, and having his own not classic sitcom, 1961 to 1966, the Dick VanDyke Show. That's why he was chosen for te movie, plus a super talent. The whole cast was great.
Besides playing Bert, the chimney sweep, Dick Van Dyke also played the old banker who first appears at 26:00. Van Dyke has been teased forever for his bad cockney accent in this film but the man is full of talent.
The Bird Woman was played by old Hollywood veteran, Jane Darwell, who played Ma Joad in John Ford's "The Grapes of Wrath." Walt Disney really loved the song, "Feed the Birds." It comforted him.
I agree with @courtneywallace871! You MUST see Saving Mr. Banks now. Really-soon. Tom Hanks plays Walt Disney, and Emma Thompson plays the author of the Mary Poppins books. They’re wonderful in it. It really is a good movie, and a fascinating (and mostly true) story about how Disney obtained the rights to make the film version of Mary Poppins.
My dad took me and my brother to see this when it came out. I was 10, my brother was 8. It is a memory I will always have. That Christmas we got the album of the sound track and drove our parents nuts singing the songs.
Julie Andrews had played Eliza Doolittle in the Broadway version of My Fair Lady for years. She thought she was a lock for the same role in the film version, but the studio wanted a bigger star. So they cast Audrey Hepburn instead. Andrews took this role instead and it was her breakout role. Mary Poppins beat out My Fair Lady as the top box office film of 1964. Andrews also won the Golden Globe and the Oscar for this role. In her acceptance speech for the Golden Globe, Andrews made a subtle jab at Jack Warner of Warner Brothers for choosing Hepburn over her.
The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain
I was 4 when this movie came out, and it's pretty much my earliest movie-going memory. We had the soundtrack on album, and I still have virtually the entire thing memorized even after all this time.
Bedknobs & Broomsticks is an older Disney movie that does something similar.
Such a classic full of magic, whimsy and fun. Thank you for the great reaction! You should definitely watch Sound of Music. Also, My Fair Lady with Audrey Hepburn is a great one as well.
Love this movie! So glad you watched it. You like animation and real life combined? Try "Bedknobs and Broomsticks". The actor who played Mr. Banks (David Tomlinson) is in that one, along with Angela Lansbury!
My favorite of all of the Disney Films. I saw this as a child. Now, I'm 57. If you like Julie Andrews, you need to watch The Sound of Music. Katie Nanna, the nanny who quits at the beginning of the film, played The Bride in The Bride of Frankenstein. In the sequel, Mary Poppins Returns (2018), Dick Van Dyke makes a cameo, playing the bank president's son, now an older old man. He looks like his dad, who died laughing at the end of the original. He should, both are played by Dick Van Dyke, now in his early 90s. He said it was funny that they were making up a 90 year old man, to look like a 90 year old man! The little girl who played Jane Banks, now grown, also has a cameo in the sequel.
A great follow up to this film is Disney's "Saving Mr. Banks" about how Walt got the rights to the story and then had to contend with its author. Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, and Colin Farrell. Lovely film even if it is Disney mythology. :)
The old bank owner is played by Dick Van Dyke that also plays Bert.
OMG thats amazing
Watch The Love Bug from Disney, David Thomlinson who played the father George Banks is in there too😊
The "Sister Suffragette" song was spiced with historical references. It referred to Mrs. Pankurst; the Pankhursts were a family of British suffragettes who led that movement in the UK. The lyric, "Shoulder to Shoulder into the Fray" is a reference to the "March of the Women" suffragette anthem--which is similar to this song!--composed by Dame Ethel Smyth, who was once locked up for her activism and subsequently led a contingent of suffragettes outside her prison into singing "March of the Women," as she conducted them from her jail cell window--with her toothbrush! She later said that was her finest performance! (There are several versions of "March of the Women" on TH-cam!) Votes for Women!!!!
This like "The Wizard of Oz" played on one of the three national networks once a year in the 70s and 80s. So we saw it many times growing up. "Sound of Music" was another that played once a year as other movies.
35:41 not only fired, but getting a shaming ceremony as well. Good times.
Basically Mary (and Bert) end up teaching the parents more than the kids and it's less about getting a new nanny than spending time with the children themseves.
The lovely Julie Andrews has the most iconic of roles in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music.
Even for the 1960s, this movie showed a VERY advanced combining of live action with animation. A lot of that is due to Walt Disney himself, to his insistence on attention to detail and asking his animators to always add a new special bit wherever possible.
Chitty Chitty bang bang........is a must see film
"Now they have to find a new nanny, again". Best review of this movie ever!
Disney's finest moment.
I just literally dropped everything. You've never seen Mary Poppins?!?! I blame your parents. I watched this repeatedly when I was a kid...and now my 7 year old does too. Loves every single song. I can't wait to see this, I hope you love it as much as we do!
A couple years ago, they did a legacy sequel, Mary Poppins Returns, that was surprisingly really good
It was excellent!!
It was very good. I was expecting nothing but it worked well!
Animation with real people, you say? "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is the absolute pinnacle.
That was one of my first reactions! th-cam.com/video/a7TrZOdLf_s/w-d-xo.html
But Mary Poppins did it first. I don’t think there was anything like it back in the 60s. Fun fact, the author of the book this was based on extremely disliked the mix of live action and animation.
When I was a kid in the 70s, there was a show about Luce action Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huckleberry Finn in an animated world.
@@auntydale Disney's "Song of the South" was released in 1946. He also did live action inserted into animation back in the 1920s.
Wrong, Gene Kelly danced with animation in 1945's Anchors Aweigh with "Jerry Mouse"...
@@thomastimlin1724Also it is as old as the industry itself going all the way back to Walt's Alice Comedies of the 20's.
I was enchanted by this movie as a kid, has the soundtrack and knew it by heart. Then I didn't see it for years again until I was about 20 and I was like, "This movie is actually really about something very serious"!
Isn’t it just
Two more Disney classics are Swiss Family Robinson and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Love this movie! An interpretation of English culture with excellent actors, ahead of its time effects...classic!
_Admiral Boom_ just got 'Mary Poppins' cancelled here in the UK (31:30)
Well, not _exactly_ cancelled, but certainly recategorised.
Just in the past week the movie 'Mary Poppins' went from a 'U' rating (Universal) to 'PG' (Parental Guidance). That means that at public screenings, children must be accompanied by an ADULT to provide particular guidance that the word 'Hottentot' should NOT be uttered, because it's an old colonial racist word for (a particular?) African tribe.
S'there! It's the wind of change since the 1960s
It comes from the Dutch/Afrikaans "Hotten-Totten," meaning "stutterer" or "stammerer," in reference to the clicks and whistles in most Khoisan languages of southern Africa.
Hmm - schgood to know.@@benschultz1784
Exactly 👍 I forgot about that
I’m genuinely surprised there are people who have never seen this movie. I watched this on repeat when I was little. Still a favorite
Out of the musical numbers in this movie, my favorite has to be "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
I hadn't watched this since I was a kid, and at one point in my early 40s a friend lent me a bunch of DVDs when I was sick at home. I was amazed at how well it held up. As utterly charming and delightful as ever!
Hilarious blooper : Mary Poppins enters the Banks' house wearing a pair of white gloves. But, at 10:20 a black gloved hand is holding the reconstituted advertisement.
It's a woman's prerogative to change her gloves.
Saving Mr.Banks now please!!! ❤
So glad you enjoyed it! This was another staple like Sound of Music, Wizard of Oz, & My Fair Lady That I used to watch every year and it’s just part of the soundtrack of my life. Such fun!
9:32 “Use the Force, Mary!” - Leia, _The Last Jedi_ (2017).
Notice that the Carosel horses looked like a caricature of their rider. Disney artists did that a lot with many of their voice-over talents. They would make the animated characters look like the actors voicing them.
3:20 a Man with many talents, musician, painter, singer, dancer, chimney cleaner and possibly a weather person
Watching as an adult you can see the story is about saving Mr Banks. He is so concerned about his social position, he can't show affection for his wife or children. At the end he stops worrying so much what other adults think and can enjoy being with his children. Oh, just go fly a kite.
Just go fly a kite. 😊
I saw it with at a movie theater in Los Angeles when I was 9 in 4th grade 1964. I know I had to wear my first pair of glasses. I think our dad dropped us off on our visits at the movies as usual while he worked. He was adored and fun so there was no connection in my mind with this horrible banker dad. I only realized now that the absent Dad theme was strong in the movie.
This was THE movie everyone HAD to see back then. The word “supercalifragileisticexpialidocious” had to be practiced nonstop and mastered asap!!!!!!
I had forgotten a lot of things about this movie! Great reaction!!!!!!!!
You will love "bedknobs and broomsticks". mixes live action and animation too xx
The actor that played Bert also played the old man at the bank.
Such a fun and clever movie! The production was top notch, especially the animation and chimney sweep dance number.
You would definitely like Bedknobs and Broomsticks. It's another classic from my childhood and my kids and grandkids loved it too.
Like Mary herself this film is practicallly perfect in every way.
Somewhere on the net is a photo of the chimney sweeps rehearsing - in tank tops, shorts on a rough outdoor rooftop set in Burbank
Dick Van Dyke who plays Burt also played the old banker.
Next, you must see the 2018 sequel Mary Poppins Returns.
My favorite watch. Can recite entire sections of this film, and do all the barn animals voices. Just makes you smile, as Walt wanted everyone to do. 'Saving Mr. Banks' is a newer film that shows how Mary Poppins was made. You could watch that on your own.
You also need to see "The Sound of Music"
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Your reaction gave me such joy! Saw this with me mum and my brother then we 6 and 8. She was the best movie person to watch a movie with and you so brought back beautiful memories like a friend therr watching as well.
Love this movie. 😊 Have every song and probably 90% of the dialog memorized. 🎶😁
A classic. After this I think you would enjoy Mary Poppins Returns (2018), and Saving Mr. Banks (2013).
I'm literally 15 Min walk from St Paul's cathedral lol, it's an amazing building, it has a whispering gallery if one person stands on one side and whispers, others on the other side can hear them clearly.
Mary Poppins did a great job of mixing animation with live action, especially for the day. Of course, you've already seen the very best movie to mix animation and live action, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. If you want more, though, you could watch Space Jam (the original 1996 film).
What a treat to see this in my subscriptions when I had so innocently went onto TH-cam to look up videos of Julie Andrews......this was a distraction that was truly mean to be! Thank you from quite possibly the biggest Julie Andrews devotee....like....ever, but I know that there are others like me out there, so maybe I'm not the "biggest" but I'm one of them!
This is definitely a film I first saw at the drive-in. I still watch it every few years, so entertaining. I agree with other commenters you should watch "Saving Mr. Banks". Also The Simpsons parody episode 'Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious' which features a nanny called Shary Bobbins.
Glynis Johns who played Winifred Banks passed away on Jan. 4th of this year at age 100.
Great reaction. Saw this when I was 10 and was mezmerized. The rooftop scene is especially top notch.
My 2 favorite movies a s a kid were The Wizard of Oz and Marry Poppins. I had just left this comment on my fb page
Winds in the east, mist coming in. Like somethin' is brewin' 'bout to begin. Can't put me finger on what lies in store, But I feel what's to happen all happened before
Because I'm feeling like I may be getting sick and then I go on TH-cam and this is the first thing I see and it says posted 12 minutes ago probably right after I put up my post...lol. stuff like this always happens to me, lol.
A lovely reaction; thank you.
I have always thought that Mary Poppins, in the film, is supposed to be an angel - an agent of divine intervention. Like the ghosts in A Christmas Carol, and for the same reason: restrictive middle-class English mores are so spiritually deadening as to leave the soul no room to breathe and grow.)
32:26 Some of these dancers featured in the scene “That’s How You Know” from _Enchanted_ (2007).