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Who Was The Real Mary Poppins?

ECBG — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 05:55:16 GMT

Another post came up from several years ago. In the event you missed it, here is the actual youtube recording.

From Absolute History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9MBbN9Ebow

I loved the movie and all of the actors!

Re: Who Was The Real Mary Poppins?

godi — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 11:01:02 GMT

Thank you @ECBG I saved this link to watch later. I love love love this movie. Now I'm humming Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down! 😄😄😄😄😄

Re: Who Was The Real Mary Poppins?

ECBG — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:50:57 GMT

@godi It was one of my favs too!

Re: Who Was The Real Mary Poppins?

on the bay — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 01:31:04 GMT

@ECBG -

I did watch this and right after it ended they showed The Secret Life of Mary Poppins which I enjoyed even more! I hope it won some awards.

Anyway, thanks for your recommendation

Re: Who Was The Real Mary Poppins?

GrailSeeker — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 14:29:28 GMT

@ECBG wrote:
Another post came up from several years ago. In the event you missed it, here is the actual youtube recording.

From Absolute History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9MBbN9Ebow

I loved the movie and all of the actors!

This video has been coming up in my YouTube feed as suggested for the last week, a few days before you posted this. I am just watching it this morning and it is very interesting!

I remember checking out the book Mary Poppins at our town library when I was really small, about 8, around 1963. So I was familiar with the character before the Disney movie came out.

Mary Poppins in the book was considerably more magical and sometimes a little scary. I always remembered the part about her breaking off her fingers and giving them to the children to suck on like candy. They tasted like peppermint. I couldn't get over how weird that was. Other things, too, that just seemed a little more of a darker character.

So Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins, for me, was considerably softened.

Later I got the entire set of Mary Poppins from a book club, but never have read beyond the first book.

I haven't seen the movie with Tom Hanks, and now of course I want to!