So glad you watched this. As you discovered this one does not have the "Doe a deer, a female deer" song in it. That would be The Sound of Music. Another, amazing musical, that I hope you watch one day! So I'm not sure if you noticed, but the old man who was the head of the bank was also played by Dick van Dyke.
I didn't catch that until the very last person listed in the rolling credits at the end of the film. One of the best physical makeup effects/combined with a really good performance completely transformed Dick Van Dyke into the 90 year old Senior Mr. Dawes.
There is another movie that Disney made shortly after this called "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" that is often overlooked as a cash in on Mary Poppins. It has many of the same creators, similar music, characters and even actors. It is set in the 1940s England. It's worth watching.
Fun fact: Feed the Birds was Walt Disney's favorite song. Julie won an Oscar for this role. Also, it's cheerful in the first half to let our guard down for Mr. Banks redemption. So good.
What I love most is that Dick Van Dyke, who had no formal dance training at all - is now currently 98 years old and is STILL dancing like this. Also, mentioning his physical comedy, you might have seen the slightest glimpse of it before; in WandaVision, the 50's episode was heavily based on the Dick Van Dyke Show, which was one of Wanda's favourites. Loved this reaction as usual! If you're looking for something in a similar vein, check out Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson (Mr. Banks). It's an underrated and often forgotten about classic, especially with the younger generations, but it's wonderful, the same kind of magic as Mary Poppins creates in a way.
He is also a massive Halloweeen nut. Loves decorating his house and is always trying to find animations and things to terrify the kids. He's just a completely wholesome guy and extremely talented.
Looks like she's already seen it, but I would also recommend Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to anyone who loved this one. More of Van Dyke being terrifically himself, and just WAY too many absolutely wonderful characters to mention. The Childcatcher, the Baron and Baroness, Grandpa, the Toymaker, the utterly fantastically ridiculous spies... and written by IAN GODDAMN FLEMING, author of the Bond novels. Such a fun and bizarre story, and - to me at least - definitely comparable in tone to Bedknobs & Broomsticks.
In the new Mary Poppins movie he still plays the banker! Only now he is actually as old lmao! Only he is still doing the crazy stunts and dancing, at 90+ years old. The man is a legend!
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is another Dick Van Dyke musicals that is one of my favorites!! He goes hard with physical comedy and his dancing is phenomenal!! I absolutely suggest it. Plus Mary Poppins the sequel is really good... Emily Blunt does a really decent job at Mary's part, and it features Lin Manuel Miranda and a cameo by Dick Van Dyke 😊
The original Jane also has a cameo in the sequel, she asks where another house on Cherry Tree lane is and when she gets the reply, she says, "Many thanks", and Mary Poppins replies, "Sincerely", throwing back to the kids letter
I never saw Chitty up until my sister put it on a few months ago. Personally, I don't care for musicals, so I tuned in and out up until I found out her last name wasn't "Truly". I was so baffled that anyone would name their daughter "Truly Scrumptious" that I just kept watching. Once the tide rolled in, I just started asking so many questions (in a teasing fun way) and my sister just said "Yeah, and we're not even at the child kidnapping part yet", to which my response was "THE FUCKING WHAT??!?". Fully invested. And then came the ending. I was PISSED. But less in a "this is awful" way and more in a "what the fuck!?" way.
Mary Poppins is an angel, a witch, a Time Lord. Who knows. She's supernatural, she's wonderful, and she's most of all motivational and inspirational. To me, she's a force of nature.
Fun fact the part where they are in the chalk paintings was not green screen but was in fact a Yellow Screen or The Sodium vapour process used by Disney with a specially coated prism in an old three-strip Technicolor camera. That was how they managed to get such a clean combination of the live action and the animation.
You should definitely watch “Saving Mr. Banks.” It’s based on Walt Disney trying to get P. L. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins, to let the Disney Studio make Mary Poppins. She was against it being a musical, but Walt wore her down to do the movie. Tom Hanks plays Walt Disney and Emma Thompson plays P. L. Travers.
Sadly P.L. Travers was also very much against any animation in Mary Poppins. Even during the after premiere party, Travers tried to convince Walt to take the animation segment out. Walt explained the movie was done. During that time movies were left untouched after their premiere. Though Saving Mr Banks gives a very different story as to what happened, they do play the real life recording of Travers in Pre Production during the end credits.
The Feed the Birds song always made me cry, especially since I caught on to the idea that by buying seed to feed the birds, you are also feeding the poor woman selling the seeds.
The chimney dance scene is ICONIC. Professional dancers have broken it down in videos I’ve seen and go on and on about how difficult and creative it is.
Fun fact: When the children were running down the alley and the old crone stepped out and frightened them, they were genuinely terrified because the director made the decision not to tell them about it. Also, the old crone is played by Betty Lou Gerson (the narrator from Cinderella and the voice of Cruella De Vil) in one of her last roles. Walt Disney considered her his good luck charm, so he secured her this cameo role.
I think you may have confused her with Jane Darwell, who played the Bird Woman. Essentially retired, Disney persuaded her to play that part, her last appearance on film.
-Castor oil is a laxative that used to be given to children a lot -gruel is a thin watery porridge -barley water is a drink. Kind of a tonic made from soaking Barley in water and straining it. -punting. Boating. A punt is a kind of boat.
Barley water is supposed to be good at fixing stomach problems including ULCERS, although I glass may not be enough, in fact I am sure it is not. Anybody with ulcers should look into it though - I know more information is given on the internet. It is a relatively fast cure (I believe) & is pretty cheap & easy. As it is from food it is relatively safe. (Everyone even using food cures should check into what ALL a food/drink does, as you may have some OTHER health issue that the food will make worse!)
As a music theatre major, this HITS SO HARD for me... As a nanny, her last lines always simultaneously Inspire & CRUSH me... "It's as it should be." So glad you got to see it finally. Cheers to the WONDROUS Glynis Johns (and the entire cast)!
I met Julie Andrews at a book convention back in 2001. She was signing her latest children’s book. The way the con was set up, the high demand authors had signings in the back area, and the top-tier ones required tickets that you would get in the morning. That day, I got there at 5:30 am to get in line just to get one for Julie. After I got my tickets at one of the booths and was walking away, they came on the intercom to announce that her tickets were all gone, and the groans of disappointment were really loud. When I walked up to her table, all I could think was “I am standing three feet away from Mary Frickin’ Poppins!!!” She looked amazing, just flawless, even then. We exchanged a few words and then I burbled something about how I was such a huge fan all of my life, and she was very kind, handed me my book, and I walked away, completely buzzed over the thrill of meeting her.
She's the Nanny version of a guardian angel, a fairy godmother, and a Goddess. She's never entirely defined--but she's honored among those of heaven and earth.
A unique theory was floating around here on RUclips that Mary Poppins comes from the same universe as Pennywise the clown. Pennywise feeds off fear while Mary Poppins feeds off happiness.
Another great Disney Musical from this era to watch is Bedknobs and Broomsticks with Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson (the father) from this film. A lot of fun facts for this film: 1. Many of the "women" who wait outside to apply for the nanny position are actually men because they couldn’t find enough ugly women. 2. In the animation sequence people like the songwriters, Julie Andrews and multiple others do voices and David Tomlinson voiced Mary Poppins Parrot umbrella at the end. 3. The choreographers Marx Beraux and Dee Dee Wood would go on to do the choreography for many other classic musicals including: The Sound of Music, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and The Slipper and the Rose. 4. The woman who played the Bird Woman is legendary Actress Jane Darwell who starred in over 100 films and at the time she had been retired, but Walt Disney convinced her to be in the film and personally sent a car to pick her up everyday and treated her like Royalty. This was her last film before her death and she said how wonderful it was especially the way Walt was for her. 5. Besides being Bert in the film Dick Van Dyke as Mr Dawes Sr when he would be dressed up in all that makeup he would troll the backlot tours by making them think it was an old man and cross in front of them as slowly as possible then right as they were about to pull away he would sprint off as quickly as possible! Also that credit was at the end of the end credits as Navckid Keyd and then the letters unscramble themselves to spell Dick Van Dyke plus there is a chorus reprise of Let’s Go Fly a Kite: ruclips.net/video/Kt4IoCOztMU/видео.html 6. Julie Andrews was hoping to be in the film version of My Fair Lady which she started on broadway, but Warner Brothers wanted someone who was actually a star as Julie had not been in a film yet so they went with Audrey Hepburn. However the story doesn’t end there as Julie Andrews was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy opposite Audrey Hepburn for My Fair Lady and she won and in her acceptance speech she ended it with “Finally my thanks to a man who made a wonderful movie and made this all possible in the first place Mr Jack Warner.” and everyone lost it including Mr Warner. Then at the Academy Awards this film was nominated for 13 Oscars and won for: Best Actress, Best Song for Chim Chim Cheree, Best Original Score, Best Visual Effects, and Best Film Editing. It was nominated for Best Picture, Director, Art Direction, Costume Design, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Scoring Treatment, and Sound unfortunately losing many of those to My Fair Lady. 7. Ed Wynn (Uncle Albert) was the Mad Hatter Walt always wanted to have him in something he appeared in several other Disney films including: The Absent Minded Professor, Son of Flubber, and Babes in Toyland. 8. When they were in the early development stages of the film Walt gave his songwriters Richard and Robert Sherman a copy of the book to read of what they thought would be good material for the film and they underlined six chapters in red crayon and when they went in to see Walt they handed him the book and he chuckled because in his copy of the book he had underlined the exact same six chapters in red crayon as well. 9. The inspiration for the song “A Spoonful of Sugar came with Richard Sherman’s son came home from school and he asked what had happened to learn he had been given the polio vaccine to which his dad asked if it hurt and he explained no they put the medicine on a sugar cube on a spoon and we swallowed it. A literal spoonful of sugar helped the medicine go down. 10. When the brothers were playing songs for Walt one day a couple hours they thought would work for the film at the end he asked them to play that bird woman song again to which Walt walked over to the window saying “That’s what it’s all about isn’t it?” Referring to the theme of the film. It was Walt’s favorite song the studio ever made and every Friday Walt would meet with the brother and just talk about things going on at the studio and other projects and at the end of their meeting he would always ask them to play the song by saying “Play it” and when they finished it he would send them off saying “Have a good weekend boys.” 11. Even after Walt’s death Richard Sherman would still go into Walt’s office on a Friday afternoon and play the song and on what would have been Walt’s 100th Birthday he went the celebration when the dedication of the Partners statue was unveiled and played the song saying it was only for Walt at the end of the song he blew a kiss to the statue said Happy Birthday and walked off, but he was told later on that when he was nearing the end of the song out of the clear blue sky a single bird came down near the piano and off back into the sky. 12. All of Mary Poppins was filmed indoors. 13. The old woman that children encountered when they run away from the bank is the actress who voiced Cruella De Vil in “101 Dalmatians”. 14. P.L. Travers who was the original author of the Mary Poppins books had refused Walt Disney’s offers to make it into a film for over 20 years and so in the late 50’s he actually went to meet her in her London home hoping to use his personal charm on her and so soon after she finally gave him the rights to make the film, but during the early stages Robert Sherman who was one of the songwriters along with his brother said “She was a witch” and absolutely hated everything everyone was wanting to do, but she was basically only a consultant, after the release of the film she wanted nothing to do with it and in the early 90’s she allowed the studio to only do two things in regards to the property.If they so choose to a sequel film could be done. A broadway show, but no one involved with the original film could be part of that project, 15. When Glynis Johns received the call from Walt to be in the film she though she was going to play Mary Poppins, but Walt wanted her as the mother and so she said as a little incentive if she could haver her own song for the film and so the Sherman Brothers rewrote a previous unused song called “Practically Perfect” into “Sister Suffragette”, 16. Many songs and sequences for the film were thought up including where the children would spin a compass and it would take them to different areas and a different song for each area where one was called North Pole Polka, another Tea in Timbuktu, while the other two unused songs found their way in other Disney films later on with The Land of Sand being reworked to become Trust in Me in The Jungle Book from 1967, and The Beautiful Briny Sea would end up in Bedknobs and Broomsticks, 17. Several of the chimney sweep dancers were the old men on the bench in Enchanted during the song “That’s How you Know” 18. Know before Walt had chose Julie to play Mary Poppins several people that were thought of as possibilities included: Bette Davis and Angela Lansbury then one sunday night the Sherman Brothers saw on the Ed Sullivan Show an excerpt performance of a broadway show called Camelot where Julie Andrews was the lead actress and they knew immediately she was the one so the next day they marched into Don Dagradi’s (another writer on the film) office and he said to them did you see the Ed Sullivan Show last night so all three of them went to Walt’s office and so then Walt went to see a performance of Camelot in New York and met with her after the show and was able to convince her to be in the film and Walt was willingly to wait as she was pregnant at the time and Julie’s husband then also ended up part of the film as he designed all of the costumes, 18. Dick Van Dyke ended up in the film because of an article Walt read of how he didn’t like that films then were becoming as he described as “dirty pictures” also it helped that basically everyone knew who Dick was as he had a hit tv show with The Dick Van Dyke show and this was only his second film after being in a film version of the broadway show Bye Bye Birdie, 19. The inspiration for the song Let’s Go Fly a Kite was actually from the Sherman Brothers childhood as there dad as they said would make these wonderful kites that would fly all day, 20. The inspiration for the song Step in Time is actually an old english folk song called Knees Up Mother Brown and the Sherman Brothers learned about it as Peter Ellenshaw who did the vidual effects and matte paintings and glass paintings for the film was basically they resident Brit taught the dance to on3 of the writer Bill Walsh and Walt Disney and Richard Sherman saw the three of them with their elbows linked together in the office kicking their knees up, 20. The inspiration for the song Supercalifragilisticexpiladocious was the Sherman Brothers wanted to make it so Mary Poppins gave the children a gift in the form of this ridiculously long word and the medley for it was two British Folk Songs: Boiled Beef and Carrots along with Any Old Iron, 21. When on the carousel the horses match their personalities, 22. The two children in the film Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber appeared in a total of three films for Disney together this was their second the previous is The Three Lives of Thomasina and the latter was The Gnome Mobile unfortunately Matthew would die of Food poisoning in the 70’s, 23. The reason there is Penguins is instead of waiters is that Walt Disney saw Storyboards where they were men and he said “Waiters always reminded me of penguins”. One other thing I wanr to note is my advising against watching Saving Mr. Banls and Mary Poppins Returns.
YES!!!!!!!! Bedknobs and Broomsticks, FTW! It seems to be so forgotten in Disney's last 40 years. Also both escape to, and from Witch Mountain. And everything involving "Herbie: the Love Bug"
@@kennethcook9406The first Herbie film is great, second is good, third is okay, and fourth onward are just trash. Not even having Bruce Campbell could help.
The bird woman was played by Oscar winner Jane Darwell in her last screen appearance. She was semi-retired at the time, living in the Motion Picture Retirement Home as she was unable to care for herself & had declined the role, but Walt wanted her so he drove to the home to flatter & charm her. It worked, so he arranged for a limo to pick her up & deliver her to the studio. She was treated like a queen. Jane won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in “The Grapes of Wrath” which starred Henry Fonda. She also had a minor role in the western “3 Godfathers” which starred John Wayne…it’s an Christmas movie. She had a very long movie career.
"Feed the Birds" was Walt Disney's favorite song as well. One of the Sherman brothers would come and play it for Walt. It was a scene that was very near and dear to him.
If you want to watch her play a character, who is the polar opposite of most of her roles, have a look at The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), which starred Henry Fonda. She was an amazing actress.
I'm sure someone mentions this here, but the nanny who quits at the beginning is Elsa Lanchester, "the Bride of Frankenstein" (even though she played all kinds of roles).
The “Do Re Mi” song is from the musical The Sound of Music but it is sung by Julie Andrews. This is the movie reaction I didn’t know I needed! So delightful! I always enjoy that hearty Ashleigh laugh.
Some trivia: When making plans to make Mary Poppins, Walt Disney really wanted Julie Andrews for the part after seeing her in "Camelot" on Broadway. When she mentioned she was pregnant, he offered to wait until she had her baby to start filming and offered her then-husband, Tony Walton, the job of designing costumes and some sets for this movie. Also the song “Feed the Birds” was Walt’s favorite song to the point where if he ever visited the music studio and said “play it” everyone would know what song he was referring to.
And this song was emotionally moved to the author of Mary Poppins. That author was a spit fired! Watch Mr. BANKS WITH TOM HANKS & U WILL UNDERSTAND. One year later after this movie was made, Walt Disney passed away. And then in the 70s, the character who played Michael, he passed away in the 70s. He was about 21 and died for water poison in India Search him & I did. It was so sad.
I watched this movie every single day for YEARS as a child. And not like a 4 year old... until I was like 12. I was obsessed. I'm still obsessed. Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke are brilliant. The whole vibe of Mrs. Banks totally went over my head as a child and it's so fascinating to see the contrast in the couple. RIP Glynis.
Same here and actually as I kid I never even realized they were husband and wife and she the children's mother. lol I kept thinking she was his sister and the kids' aunt. As a kid I didn't get that in earlier times families didn't outwardly show as much affection.
We watched this movie whenever it aired on tv . I’m surprised you didn’t recognize that Dick Van Dyke played two characters on this movie. He was Bert and the old banker who passed away from laughter. Always makes my day when you enjoy the old films. Hope this year of reactions brings you some happiness in all that you do. Thank you for sharing with us , it brightens my day because I can watch another reaction with you and all the other viewers. Thank you!!!!!!
As a fan of Julie Andrews (grew up on her films) ... you really must watch "The Sound of Music" as that was where many of us, as children discovered her and how magical she could be. She would later go on to marry Blake Edwards - who was an incredible producer/director in Hollywood for MANY years (perhaps he was best known for his Pink Panther films with Peter Sellers... he was also responsible for many many classic comedies (including one of my personal favorites "The Great Race" with Tony Curtis (Jaime Lee Curtis' father), Natalie Wood, and Jack Lemmon) ... AND he and Julie Andrews gave us one of my favorites, "Victor-Victoria" which was WAY ahead of its time in representing the LGBTQ community
The sound of music was one of those movies that was on TV every year as an event, and everybody stopped and watched it. If you haven’t seen it, you really should just for the cultural exposure if nothing else. It’s a beautiful story based loosely on real events & it has a lot of fun songs. The Victor/Victoria recommendation is A plus. That is one of my most favorite movies, even if it wasn’t played on tv every year like SoM. Robert Preston (who is famous for The Music Man, another fun musical) plays an old Queen & Julie Andrews plays a starving soprano who can’t get a job. The old man hears her sing & decides to put her in a drag show where she’s a woman pretending to be a man, who is pretending to be a woman. It’s fabulous. Please check it out someday! 🙏😄
Elsa Lancaster (Katie Nanna) played the title roll in "Bride of Frankenstein". Ed Wynn (Uncle Albert) was the voice of the Mad Hatter in Disney's "Alice in Wonderland". David Tomlinson (Mr. Banks) was in "The Love Bug". Glynnis Johns (Mrs. Banks) was in "The Court Jester". But the next movies you should see are "The Sound of Music" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
No matter what kind of day I'm having, the entire "I Love To Laugh" scene with Ed Wynn never fails to lift my spirits. The jokes make me laugh no matter how many times I've heard them.
I am so glad you enjoyed this! A real classic! A good follow up movie that I liked is "Saving Mr. Banks". it is about the making of "Mary Poppins" and P. L. Travers (author of the Mary Poppins series of books), including where she came up with her characters and dealing with Walt Disney (played by Tom Hanks). A wonderful story in its own right! A follow up movie for Dick Van Dyke would be "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and Julie Andrews "The Sound of Music". Thank you for sharing your reactions! it is like watching these classics again in new eyes! 😀
Definitely watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It is a fantastic musical comedy based on a book by Ian Fleming, the author of the original James Bond books. He wrote the story as a gift to his son.
If you need more Julie Andrews then you MUST see "The Sound of Music"! Also a musical with a lot of fun moments but also more serious and powerful as it is based on a true story.
"Feed the Birds" is my favorite song. It reminds me to look past the end of my nose and to see the world around me and to stop selfishly focusing on me. And to pay it forward whenever you can.
Thanks for doing this one 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Van Dyke was the old man at the bank that died laughing😂🤣😂. If you want more Julie Andrews, she narrates the Bridgeton series. Also, you can see her in the Princess Diaries.
Dick Van Dyke actually caught a lot of flak for his accent, as it was considered a pretty terrible approximation of a London Cockney accent, but it still makes the movie so fun. Dick Van Dyke was always my favorite actor for many years because of this movie, an incredible physical comedian, and his TV show (The Dick Van Dyke Show) shaped me in my formative years (I wasn't alive when it first aired, but I caught the reruns as a child on Nick at Nite). He also played the old man at the bank, the one who couldn't make it down the step and who floated up from the wooden leg joke at the end. For more Gylnis Johns (and more physical comedy) I highly recommend The Court Jester with the incredible Danny Kaye, another physical comedian/actor/singer/dancer like Dick Van Dyke who really shaped my sensibilities for comedy and physical humor. They don't make stars like Kaye and Van Dyke anymore.
Worst accent very, and he thought he was nailing it. Longest running joke in cinema history. It just his regular American accent with a few odd soundly words thrown in occasionally.
yess Imm still waiting for a popular YOU tuber to review THE COURT Jester, because its just a perfect family film and witty and fun all around. Danny Kaye was just soo good and even 20 years later he still could recite that wild rhyme of "the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true" lol
A true experience : In 1970 I worked with a nice older lady named Helen, silver haired and wearing red pointed glasses. She brought me ice cream on short breaks and always left me her lunch (I was a "washer upper"). It was in Cambridge, UK and on a visit a year later I got lost and she appeared from an alley and gave me directions. Two years later the same thing happened. Finally I moved back for a year in '75. I bought a paper to look for a room and standing in front of a big Hotel I saw Helen who had finished her shift. "Hello, dear " she said, and proceeded to help me with the ads. This time I reminded her of all the above facts and told her :"Why don't you finally admit you are a Fairy?". She sweetly replied " Oh, Luv, if I were, would I still be working at my age?". She did not deny being something else though...❤❤❤
Glynnis is also amazing in "The Court Jester." Also stars Danny Kaye, Angela Lansbury, and Basil Rathbone!! HILARIOUS and adventurous movie with an all-star cast!
You MUST react to this film. Hilarious. Sadly Glynis and Angela were the last two surviving credited actors from it (unsurprising, as they were most likely the youngest of the main cast), both no longer with us now. (And with Mary Poppins, after 60 years since its release, Dick Van Dyke's accent coach may soon be eligible for parole from prison)
Uncle Albert was played by Ed Wynn. He voiced several classic Disney characters like the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. Younger viewers will recognize the voice because the actor who voiced King Candy in Wreck-it Ralph was doing a spot-on impersonation of him.
Walt consider Ed a lucky charm. No one else was suitable for this part, as far as Walt was concerned. Which brings up the fact Walt personally produced this show being involved with every craftsmen.
9:27 "medicine go down... well this is going to be stuck in my head the rest of the day" It's been at least 30 years since I've seen this and just that bit (from you) is enough to bring the melody back.
10:20 - So fun story about Bert. In the beginning of production for this movie, they had an idea to adapt a minor chimney sweep character from the Mary Poppins books for the film, but as they researched Victorian chimney sweeps for the role, they discovered this whole culture built up around them with myths and superstitions and what they did when they weren't chimney sweeping and they decided to build up the minor character into a pseudo-narrator and major character. 10:29 - 'Punting' is riding around in a pole-driven boat. It's like Venician gondolas without the canals. 11:10 - Most people ship Mary and Bert, but I think most often the interpretation is that Bert was a child Mary was nanny for years ago and he's seen her come down several times sine then. 16:46 - Comedy legend Ed Wynn. He was a very prolific actor in his day, but you may know him as the voice of the Mad Hatter in Disney's Alice in Wonderland. 17:01 - The movie doesn't address it, but the books explain that whenever he loses himself to laughter, he gets filled with 'laughing gas' and floats to the ceiling. 19:12 - 'Practically perfect in every way.' 26:12 - I just love that when he tells them about Mary Poppins, he calls her ' *my* nanny.' It's easy to miss if you didn't watch through the credits, but The Elder Mr. Dawes was also played by Dick Van Dyke. There's two movies you need to see after this. The first is 'Saving Mr. Banks.' It's the story of the author of the Mary Poppins books and of how Walt Disney negotiated with her for the rights to make the movie. Second is 'Mary Poppins Returns. It's a direct sequel to this movie that was made about 5 years ago. It's a less subtle film, but still enjoyable.
Hmm. I got to say, if Bert was from the kind of family that could have a nanny, he wouldn't have grown up to be a chimney sweep. (And he wouldn't speak in that accent either).
Before watching Mary Poppins Returns she should watch "Bedknobs and broomsticks". Also a good and similar movie from the same time (I think it came out a year or two before or after) and it co-stars the actor that plays Mr. Banks in this movie (plus I think the little boy is in it as well but I could be remembering wrong) and there is a cameo of the maicameos. (Who I think she has said to be a fan of in the past) from it at the end of Mary Poppins Returns. So to see him in another similar movie and to understand the cameo.
@@Duke00x _Bedknobs and Broomsticks_ came after _May Poppins._ It was Disney's attempt to do something else similar (very similar!) I remember liking it a lot, but I saw it as a kid, I think at the cinema, before I saw Poppins.
Now that you've seen this masterpiece, please watch the movie Saving Mr. Banks. It was an Oscar nominee back in 2014...Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Colin Farrell...just to name a few. It gives a view of the life of the author of the Mary Poppins books. I think you'll love it. Incredibly moving. ❤️
This was my very first time hearing the English accent & then My Fair Lady as a child of the 80s. I love their accents. Thanks to my mom & my older sisters. ❤😂
Ashley, if you like this one you will probably enjoy Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, it's a true classic! Dick Van Dyke's charm and talent shine through once again in this whimsical adventure. While it may not be a Disney production, it captures that magical essence just like Mary Poppins. A timeless gem that brings back the joy of childhood every time I watch it!
There was a show on Disney+ a few years ago where they looked for props and stuff from older movies and Karen Dotrice (Jane) was shown her costume from this movie. It was so touching, and she was almost in tears with all the memories. Julie Andrews is beautiful, and makes a decent looking man too! In Victor/Victoria, she plays a woman who becomes a female impersonator.
This movie was a GIGANTIC hit when it was released. It was nominated for 13 Academy Awards (including Best Picture, of course) and won five including Best Actress for Julie Andrews. Just one year later she would star in "The Sound of Music." It was an even bigger hit, surpassing "Gone with the Wind" as the highest grossing film off all-time. Andrews was nominated for Best Actress again, but lost to Julie Christie in the movie "Darling."😁
In the dance world, that Steppin' Time dance scene is legendary for being one of the most exhausting, athletic dance 😂. It's intricate and requires you to basically be using the same muscles you use to jump... In other words, the entire thing is like doing intricate jumping jacks for like 10 minutes straight 😂
It’s great that you’re dedicating this to Glynis Johns, she was AMAZING. RIP 🙏🏼 Also since you mentioned how the boy (Matthew Garber) looks like a grown person, he actually died at age 21 in 1977.
The "A man has dreams" scene, where Bert songs the "Spoonfull of Sugar" reprise to Mr. Banks is one of my favorite scenes of all time. Just the way Banks' face changes as he reals what a schmuck he's been is priceless.
So much fun watching how much fun you have watching such a fun movie. As has been mentioned, _The Sound of Music_ for more Julie Andrews, and for the great Rodgers and Hammerstein score. For Dick van Dyke either _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_ or _Bye Bye Birdie._ In its original Broadway run _Bye Bye Birdie_ won four Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Featured Actor for Dick van Dyke. In the film adaptation he reprises his Tony winning role. It's also the film that introduced Ann-Margret, and it co-stars Janet Leigh (which I mention knowing how much you like a Jamie Leigh Curtis connection).
I love this, but I’m also sad you didn’t get to experience it as a kid. Take the magic you feel now and x100 and that’s how it felt. The carpet bag scene alone was everything to my childhood imagination ❤
Same. So much so that I actually requested to go to the library to find books to figure out how they did it. Which made it even more awesome a trick when I figured it out.
I have seen this movie innumerable times, and even raised my kids with these lullabies and sayings. My 21-year-old still hops to it when I say "Spit Spot!" 😄❤️ THANK YOU!
A magical musical of a movie for children of all ages. Fun fact: Dick Van Dyke not only starred in this movie, but also appeared in 'Mary Poppins Returns' (2018). Much to her credit, Dame Julie Andrews did not appear in Mary Poppins Returns because she felt the film was "Emily's show" (Emily Blunt) and "did not want to hog the spotlight."
Fun facts: Uncle Albert (the man whose contagious laughter makes him fly) is played by comedian Ed Wynn. Disney fans also know him as the voice of the Mad Hatter from _Alice in Wonderland._ Julie Andrews almost didn't play Mary Poppins. Disney actually other choices, even Angela Lansbury to play the title role before Julie was cast. She was originally supposed to reprise her stage role Eliza Dolittle in the film version of My Fair Lady. But executives at Warner Bros passed her over for the more popular actress Audrey Hepburn in the part, even though we don't really hear her sing. (I'm not saying Audrey's performance was bad, I just wish she actually sang in the film rather than having someone dub her voice. I can buy it animated films, but it's a stretch in live action musicals.) Disney then jumped at the chance, and picked Andrews to play Mary Poppins.
I heard Audrey's actual singing voice instead of the woman who sang for her. Audrey has a great voice. She sang in Breakfast at Tiffany's. I also wish they would have used Audrey's actual singing voice. They had her change her voice to Cockney. But not her actual singing voice.
And when Julie Andrews won her Best Actress Oscar for Mary Poppins the first thing she said in her acceptance speech was "Thank you Jack Warner" who was famously the reason why she wasn't cast in My Fair Lady.
Semi fun fact : The woman who plays their first nanny is the Bride of Frankenstein. Also, Id love to see a reaction to Mary Poppins Returns which is a newer sequel with Emily Blunt but I feel still lives up to the magic plus has Angela Lansbury in her last film role. For other Julie Andrews films there is The Sound of Music (thats the Do-Re-Mi song youre thinking of) or Victor/Victoria maybe for June (Pride month).
@@keithdean9149 It was cute, and they tried to recapture the classic feel of the original, but whether they made it TOO similar--they hit all the same plot beats--or too modern I'm not sure, it just didn't feel right. Maybe the addition of a mustache-twirling Colin Firth ruined it for me, since *Mary Poppins* doesn't have a proper villain.
Ashleigh I for one would SO wholeheartedly enjoy seeing you get into the classic movie musicals! There are so many good ones, especially from the 60s and 70s. I especially love “The Sound of Music” (for more Julie Andrew’s!), “My Fair Lady” (the beautiful Audrey Hepburn), and “Fiddler on the Roof” (sad at times but incredibly engrossing storytelling).
Mary Poppins has always been one of my favorites! Dick Van Dyke is an absolute legend. This movie is so amazing from a technical standpoint! Also, fun fact: Walt loved Feed the Birds. If he was having a rough day he would have one of the Sherman brothers play it for him. When it is played at the parks it is almost always used as a tribute to Walt!
You probably recognize Ed Wynn's voice mostly because so many of Alan Tudyk's characters are modeled after his voice 😂😂 But also, he was the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland! Among many other things. ❤
It’s funny you mentioned that Marry Poppins could be a horror movie. Years ago someone made a fake movie trailer where they took clips from the movie and put suspenseful music over them to make it seem like a horror movie and it’s incredibly effective. There’s a real rabbit hole of family movies edited to seem like horror and thrillers out there.
In an inverted example, there's also a fake trailer (possibly by the same person) for The Shining done in the style of a heartwarming goofy family comedy
Loved your reaction Ashleigh! This film is a classic and one of my favorite childhood films. Now that you've seen this, I would definitely recommend watching "Saving Mr. Banks." The film focuses on P.L. Travers, the woman who wrote the book of Mary Poppins that this film is based on, and the experiences she had working with Walt Disney and his cast members on the film. Tom Hanks plays Walt Disney and Emma Thompson plays P.L. Travers. It's a great film and honestly kind of a tear jerker.
One of my favorite scenes in any movie is Mr banks walking towards the bank, with the music of Feed the Birds playing, and him walking past the places of where the children went during the movie...i get a tear in my eye
I loved this movie as a kid (I'm 58 now), and hadn't watched it for years as an adult because I thought it may not hold up. But one day a friend lent me the DVD when he found out I hadn't watched in years. And it was even more magical than I'd remembered. ❤
I love that you used subtitles. I always use them in musicals because it helps me catch all the brilliant lyrics that can push the story forward. I love too that the two tuppence songs essentially point out the difference between putting money in the bank to get richer and putting money to use helping others.
Subtitles are sometimes helpful when they get them right. They can, however, get confusing when the policeman on the phone says that it is not Mr Bank's "regular 'abit" (dropping the h in habit) but the subtitle says "regular rabbit." Captioning is done quickly and cheaply, and so such errors are all too common.
The song you mentioned was from The Sound of Music. I hope you react to that one too. It also stars Julie Andrews and I think you're really going to find Christopher Plummer dreamy because, as someone in her 30's, I know I do. Also if you haven't reacted to it yet, I hope you'll do another one of my favourites since you said you like animation in live action movies: Bedknobs and Broomsticks. It also stars David Tomlinson (who played Mr. Banks in Mary Poppins) along with Angela Lansbury. P.S. The old man who owned the Bank was also played by Dick Van Dyke.
Watching this as a child was so magical and is still magical even as an adult. The Sound of Music is the other movie you were thinking of and stars Julie Andrews as well. (also a very good musical)
Dick Van Dyke's a legend. She he does anything, he takes it to the max and then some. 16:50 - Uncle Albert was played by Ed Wynn. You might recognize his voice as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland
I had the pleasure of seeing a Disney licensed Stage Play version about 10 years ago. The Chimney scene was indeed awesome! Real live tap dancing is amazing to see! They also had Mary "fly" up over the audience to the balcony to exit! Great movie, some strange moments indeed. I always enjoy seeing you react!
You might really enjoy “Saving Mr. Banks,” which tells some of the behind the scenes stories of the making of this movie, along with a fictionalized biography of the author. It stars Tom Hanks as Walt Disney and Emma Thompson as “P.L. Travers” (the author’s pseudonym).
Now with Mr. Banks I have serious problems with. It is clearly a failed Oscar-Bait film that alters a lot of facts and add things that never happened: First of all Travers had signed over the rights before she went to California. Second there was no Ralph the Driver. Third the song that won her over was Feed the Birds not Let’s Go Fly a Kite. Fourth Traver never went to Disneyland. Fifth one of the few things that was right is she did tape record all of the story meetings and was an absolute B%$th to the Sherman Brothers. Sixth is more of a personal complaint is when she sees Robert Sherman using a cane and makes a jab that he probably deserved it. He fought in World War 2. Seventh the making references to the film things these kind of movies do to be specific what they do to incorporate ideas and lines from Mary Poppins to make it seem as though it was part of her childhood when that didn’t happen.
@@jamesmoyner7499 Robert Sherman didn't just fight and get wounded -- he helped liberate a concentration camp. It always amazes me how he went from seeing the most evil things people can do to writing such charming, happy, and catchy songs.
Great reaction Ashleigh! RIP Glynis. Another more recent Julie Andrews film I highly recommend watching is "The Princess Diaries" with Anne Hathaway (her first film). Also, fun fact: Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke have remained good friends ever since they starred in this "Mary Poppins".
My grandmother made me a Mary Poppins doll, in full Jolly Holiday dress, with the bows and parasol and all. She did it by rewatching my VHS and pausing it frame by frame to sketch the design and then sewed it.
This movie is iconic and has been spoofed so many times. My personal favorite is the Simpsons episode with "Sherry Bobbins". My goodness that episode spoofs this perfectly -- including the feet pointing each way (as she scrapes the hood of a car on her umbrella descent). And as others have mentioned I really, really hope you watch The Sound of Music. It's a lot heavier than this movie, but it's one of the greatest movies of all times and such a great watch.
I scrolled through some of the comments and hadn't seen it yet, but if it hasn't been said a lot of the larger, city-wide backgrounds were hand painted scenes on large panes of glass that had little tiny holes in the window areas to let light through and that's how they got that beautiful glowing and twinkling look. I love how much went into this movie for back when it was, and this knowledge makes the length of time of the movie easier. The movie flies by for me. I am so glad that you watched this though. Your genuine reaction to recognizing songs and people in movies is always so amazing.
According to Dick Van Dyke (Bert was my first movie crush, when it was rereleased, as Disney used to do), the reason his accent was so atrocious, is because his vocal coach was Irish, teaching him to speak British English. DVD is a legend, he really is. He's in his 90s now, and not long ago he was on The Masked Singer! He even did a little dance when they revealed him. He was also in the Mary Poppins sequel, which was a pretty good movie, and it made me tear up to see him. Then Angela Lansbury showed up, and I started sobbing. Speaking of which, Ashleigh, you still owe HER a movie, she passed in 2022. You may know her as Jessica Fletcher from "Murder, She Wrote." I recommend "Bedknobs and Broomsticks." It has the actor who played Mr. Banks in it too! Dick Van Dye and also several members of his family were in the show "Diagnosis Murder" where Van Dyke's character, Dr. Sloan, solves mysteries.
Some people already touted for Danny Kaye's "The Court Jester"... which does have Angela Lansbury in a leading role. That would make a perfect reaction for one of the great comedic actors _and_ Angela _and_ Glynis Johns.
I might actually recommend she watch the sequel Mary Poppins returns. I'm sure opinions are divided but I just love it and as you say both Dick Van Dyke and Angela Lansbury are in it. And I'm sure there'll be lots of requests for watching Saving Mr Banks as well. That said if she hasn't watched Beauty and The Beast the animated film yet, then that would be amazing!
@@Groffili OH HECK YEAH!!!! i LOVE Danny Kaye! He was one of my first crushes too! I watch "White Christmas" with my husband on Christmas day every year. I haven't seen "The Court Jester" in ages, but remember it as being just seriously delightful! And Ashleigh enjoyed Kaye in "White Christmas" too, so I bet she'd be up for it! Patreons who have the power, would you be willing to make this happen? Side note: I wonder if Danny Kaye and Dick Van Dyke were ever in something together? If they were, I'd probably swoon after a few minutes of it!
@@DravenGal I also Love 'The Court Jester' and I'm so glad that so many people are aware of it. More than I'd thought. "The Vessel with the Pestle has the Brew that is True" scene is one of the best along with so many others! Plus as an aside, I'm also a Dr Who fan too.
THANK YOU! That scene where Michael can't get out of the closet terrified the bejeebers out of me when I was a kid. Finally someone acknowledges: "Mary Poppins could be a horror film". 🙂
I'm old enough to remember when this was first released. It was a huge deal, with a lot of advance hoopla and tie-ins. I remember a cereal company (I think it was Post) had toys in some of their cereals that were spring-loaded chimneys that launched a character into the air, like in the rooftop dance. And my sister won a Halloween costume contest with her Mary Poppins costume that year.
Ash, you need to see Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, the movie with the Do Re Mi song. It too is a musical and oddly similar to this, a woman trying to bring joy to the children of a strict father, with a touch of Casablanca, a love story told while escaping Nazis. Andrews begins as a nun, so it's even a precursor to Sister Act. Julie also stars in a Hitchcock movie, not Hitch's best but a bit of fun, called Torn Curtain. You may now consider yourself Popped. Thank you!
Even though there's a lot of artistic license taken in The Sound of Music, it is based on a real family, and real events. The movie is enchanting. Still a huge favorite from my childhood on, and I'm in my 50's.
Oh Girl, you just took me back to my childhood (I'm 66). I remember standing in line outside the theater box office with my family hoping there would be seats available (no reserved tickets or internet sales back then). My friends had all already seen it and couldn't wait to know what they were talking about. Now I have to go to the basement to the containers of 33&1/3 rpm albums to see if I still have the original album. Thank you for the reaction. Another Disney movie from the same era would be The Sword In The Stone (All animated) and not a musical. The King Arthur legend.
Love your reaction, as always! Did you know that Dick Van Dyke also love played the bank president? Also, Mary Poppins entire purpose in coming to the family was to help them, especially the father.
The actor that played the laughing Uncle Albert was Ed Wynn and he was 79 during the filming of Mary Poppins. He was also the voice of Disney's Alice in Wonderland and the voice of the Mad Hatter from Disney's Alice in Wonderland.
You should watch Saving Mr. Banks, which is a really sweet retelling of how Walt Disney got P.L. Travers (the writer of the Mary Poppin's books) to agree to let him make this movie.
As others have pointed out, the old banker was also Dick van Dyke, whose accent was largely overlooked while Bert's has been the target of ridicule for sixty years now. He played the son of that character in the fairly recent "Mary Poppins Returns" (the old man as you noticed having died off-screen at the end of the original, and the actual English actor who played the son in that having died shortly before the sequel was made). And in the process also repeated the joke about the man with a wooden leg named Smith.
You dropped this right when I needed it the most you absolute Angel of a human. This was my childhood. My Dad actually did clean our chimney singing that song. Julie Andrews is my queen. I’ve had such a bad week and you just made it so much better. I thank you. Also do Victor/Victoria. You’ll thank me later
You can make your own kite with 2 sticks tied together into an X, a piece of cloth 2ft square and string, the last one I made flew 1800ft off the ground....we use 3 spools of cotton tied together....
I absolutely love this movie, and it was one of my favorites as a kid. I honestly kind of miss this old school Disney. I would honestly recommend you watch the sequel, Mary Poppins Returns, as well as Saving Mr. Banks, which is about the author of the book. And if you want to see more of Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, I would definitely recommend that you watch The Sound of Music and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
I came as soon as I heard!! This was an absolute staple of my childhood - honestly, I never really noticed the length simply because I watched it so much. I love that there's so much left up to interpretation (the nature of Mary's powers, her relationship with Bert, etc.), it really adds to the already incredibly level of whimsy. So sad to hear about Glynis' recent passing. If you want more of her, I can definitely recommend The Court Jester (also starring Danny Kaye and Angela Lansbury). It's a WILD ride!
Also, this hadn't been released yet when she was cast for Sound of Music but the writers went to Disney to view footage to see how she was on the big screen and signed her before anyone else could. Sound of Music is long and has some serious parts but as others have said, it's a must watch. Her chemistry with the gorgeous Christopher Plummer was spot on and her character was vital in the amazing character arc he experienced. The cinematography and lighting was beyond perfection for the 60s and I'll watch all 3 hours just to hit play and watch another 3 hours if I have the time.
She was the last survivor of the Golden Age of Hollywood studios. Find some of the costume dramas she did back when color film first came in. They really hyped up the color saturation of those movies. And Glynis Johns, in that environment, was an absolute stunner.
Oh, also..."Doe, A Deer" is from another Julie Andrews movie, one of her most epic, called "The Sound Of Music." You won't find many people in my generation or older who haven't seen the play (my sister actually played the lead in a production of it) or the movie. It's a TRUE classic!
I was raised by a single mother, who always took me to the movies with her. I saw "The sound of Music" and Mary Poppins 7 times each as a child. I was 6 years old when Mary Poppins came out and remember it to this day.
@@stevenwoodward5923 It's unforgettable. I kinda miss the days when Disney would rerelease the classics every ten years or so. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to see them in theaters.
Julie Andrew's life is very fascinating. At the time, Warner Brothers wanted to make a movie version of the big Broadway hit "My Fair Lady". Julie had played the part of Elisa for years on stage with accolades, admiration and tremendous reviews. But WB didn't want to take a chance with a "unknown" actress and chose a known star Audrey Hepburn which allowed Walt to step in and scoop Julie up for the role of Mary Poppins. We are all glad that WB dropped the ball and allowed Julie to grace us as Mary. It also, broke her "type cast" and allowed her to then step into many different roles over the years.
And Julie went on to win Best Actress for "Mary Poppins" over Audrey for "My Fair Lady". Then in her Oscar speech she thanked the executive at WB who passed on her. Such a Queen!!
I was very young when this film got put on VHS. VHS was so new at the time that the idea of bringing a movie home and renting it and getting to watch it whenever you wanted to was extremely eye-opening. Before that if you had a favorite movie you only saw it when it was in the theater, and then after that you were just kind of going to be stuck with remembering it, because you we're never going to see it again unless maybe someday they chopped it up and edited it for television and put it on as a rerun. As a consequence of having this available on VHS, I watched it every day for about 4 years because it was my favorite movie... which I'm sure was a welcome development for my mother LOL. Before that it was hard to keep your kids occupied with TV, because cartoons were only on at certain times, but if you could put their favorite movie on multiple times a day you had no problems :-) . I watched it again as an adult and thought, well Mary Poppins is a little bit more stuck up than I remembered, but the magic is still there. You weren't remembering wrong, btw; she is also the person who changes everything in The Sound of Music. She had throat surgery at some point much later on and when she was in The Princess Diaries she couldn't sing the way she used to; her range had lowered quite a bit, but yes; she was incredible. There're a lot of fan theories that she is a Time Lord related to Doctor Who (along with the teachers from The Magic School Bus), and/or that she and Bert knew each other because she was there to help him when he was a kid, because she doesn't age, which means he could be in love with her cuz he probably had a crush on her his whole life, but she doesn't go for that sort of thing. She's very proper. If I remember correctly this is one of the first movies to ever have the whole live-action-with-cartoons-interacting. It was a huge part of my childhood, I even decorated my dollhouse like the house in here because I was so obsessed with it. Glad you got to see it.
The odds of you seeing this are slight, but if you ever want to see Julie Andrews outside the "wholesome" roles, a couple of my faves are "The Americanization of Emily" and "10." I have always felt Dame Julie's acting talent is extremely underrated because so many don't know her outside of her roles as Mary Poppins and Maria.
Or that she did a sex scene in a film written and shot by her husband. There is an absolutely hilarious interview with her on the Graham Norton show. Julie Andres, Jonah Hill, amd Channing Tatum. And her and Jonah flirt the entire time. It had me in painful stitches.
So glad you watched this. As you discovered this one does not have the "Doe a deer, a female deer" song in it. That would be The Sound of Music. Another, amazing musical, that I hope you watch one day!
So I'm not sure if you noticed, but the old man who was the head of the bank was also played by Dick van Dyke.
Sound of Music also with Julie Andrews
@@adolfojacosta - LOL I didn't mention that because I thought it might be a nice surprise for her. 😁
I didn't catch that until the very last person listed in the rolling credits at the end of the film. One of the best physical makeup effects/combined with a really good performance completely transformed Dick Van Dyke into the 90 year old Senior Mr. Dawes.
Ahhh I’d love to see Ashleigh watch Sound of Music and just in general delve into the world of classic movie musicals
I thought that was only the second one. @adolfojacosta
There is another movie that Disney made shortly after this called "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" that is often overlooked as a cash in on Mary Poppins. It has many of the same creators, similar music, characters and even actors. It is set in the 1940s England. It's worth watching.
Some of Angela Landsbury's best work.
Bedknobs and broomsticks is my favourite Disney film it's so so good
I adore bedknobs and broomsticks ❤ Angela Landsbury is my hero xx
That was always a favorite of mine.
I ADORE Bedknobs and Broomsticks!! 🎉🥰🎉🥰🎉
In case you didn't realize. Dick van Dyke also played the old banker who died laughing. Weirdly, he actually payed Walt Disney in order to play him.
19:56 Fun Fact: That's Dick Van Dyke!
When he read the script for Bert, he loved this character and offered to play this role in addition for free! :)
Fun fact: Feed the Birds was Walt Disney's favorite song. Julie won an Oscar for this role. Also, it's cheerful in the first half to let our guard down for Mr. Banks redemption. So good.
Saving Mr. Banks, is a good companion movie to watch next.
(About the making of this movie, with Tom Hanks playing Walt Disney)
What I love most is that Dick Van Dyke, who had no formal dance training at all - is now currently 98 years old and is STILL dancing like this. Also, mentioning his physical comedy, you might have seen the slightest glimpse of it before; in WandaVision, the 50's episode was heavily based on the Dick Van Dyke Show, which was one of Wanda's favourites.
Loved this reaction as usual! If you're looking for something in a similar vein, check out Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson (Mr. Banks). It's an underrated and often forgotten about classic, especially with the younger generations, but it's wonderful, the same kind of magic as Mary Poppins creates in a way.
Dick Van Dyke voiced Bert.
He is also a massive Halloweeen nut. Loves decorating his house and is always trying to find animations and things to terrify the kids. He's just a completely wholesome guy and extremely talented.
Looks like she's already seen it, but I would also recommend Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to anyone who loved this one. More of Van Dyke being terrifically himself, and just WAY too many absolutely wonderful characters to mention. The Childcatcher, the Baron and Baroness, Grandpa, the Toymaker, the utterly fantastically ridiculous spies... and written by IAN GODDAMN FLEMING, author of the Bond novels. Such a fun and bizarre story, and - to me at least - definitely comparable in tone to Bedknobs & Broomsticks.
In the new Mary Poppins movie he still plays the banker! Only now he is actually as old lmao! Only he is still doing the crazy stunts and dancing, at 90+ years old. The man is a legend!
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is another Dick Van Dyke musicals that is one of my favorites!! He goes hard with physical comedy and his dancing is phenomenal!! I absolutely suggest it.
Plus Mary Poppins the sequel is really good... Emily Blunt does a really decent job at Mary's part, and it features Lin Manuel Miranda and a cameo by Dick Van Dyke 😊
With the late-great Angela Lansbury, agreed.
Years ago I used to date a girl whose cat was named Kitty Kitty Bang Bang
..and it has one of the scariest characters in a children's film!
The original Jane also has a cameo in the sequel, she asks where another house on Cherry Tree lane is and when she gets the reply, she says, "Many thanks", and Mary Poppins replies, "Sincerely", throwing back to the kids letter
I never saw Chitty up until my sister put it on a few months ago. Personally, I don't care for musicals, so I tuned in and out up until I found out her last name wasn't "Truly". I was so baffled that anyone would name their daughter "Truly Scrumptious" that I just kept watching. Once the tide rolled in, I just started asking so many questions (in a teasing fun way) and my sister just said "Yeah, and we're not even at the child kidnapping part yet", to which my response was "THE FUCKING WHAT??!?". Fully invested. And then came the ending. I was PISSED. But less in a "this is awful" way and more in a "what the fuck!?" way.
Mary Poppins is an angel, a witch, a Time Lord. Who knows. She's supernatural, she's wonderful, and she's most of all motivational and inspirational. To me, she's a force of nature.
And according to Neil Gaiman, literally exists separately from God's creation to the point of being a little intimidated by her. 😂
Angel, witch, Time Lord...how about a member of the Q Continuum?
Practically perfect in every way
@@dadoctah Nah. She's too nice.
She's one of the Great Old Ones, like Cthulhu (but more pleasant to look at).
Fun fact the part where they are in the chalk paintings was not green screen but was in fact a Yellow Screen or The Sodium vapour process used by Disney with a specially coated prism in an old three-strip Technicolor camera. That was how they managed to get such a clean combination of the live action and the animation.
Mary Poppins is a masterpiece of a film. It's practically perfect in every way.
You should definitely watch “Saving Mr. Banks.” It’s based on Walt Disney trying to get P. L. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins, to let the Disney Studio make Mary Poppins. She was against it being a musical, but Walt wore her down to do the movie. Tom Hanks plays Walt Disney and Emma Thompson plays P. L. Travers.
That movie changed a LOT from reality, but is still quite fascinating.
Agreed, definitely worth watching.
Sadly P.L. Travers was also very much against any animation in Mary Poppins. Even during the after premiere party, Travers tried to convince Walt to take the animation segment out. Walt explained the movie was done. During that time movies were left untouched after their premiere. Though Saving Mr Banks gives a very different story as to what happened, they do play the real life recording of Travers in Pre Production during the end credits.
I remember Julie said that Travers said "She had the nose to play Mary Poppins" ... rude
I totally just commented this. She definitely needs to watch it. I'm hoping Tom Hanks will be a big enough draw for her to decide to watch it. 😂
The Feed the Birds song always made me cry, especially since I caught on to the idea that by buying seed to feed the birds, you are also feeding the poor woman selling the seeds.
I was going to say something similar. Thanks for your insightful comment.
The chimney dance scene is ICONIC. Professional dancers have broken it down in videos I’ve seen and go on and on about how difficult and creative it is.
But Dick’s most difficult dance is in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Me Ole Bamboo
Fun fact: When the children were running down the alley and the old crone stepped out and frightened them, they were genuinely terrified because the director made the decision not to tell them about it. Also, the old crone is played by Betty Lou Gerson (the narrator from Cinderella and the voice of Cruella De Vil) in one of her last roles. Walt Disney considered her his good luck charm, so he secured her this cameo role.
One of her last? That's quite a gap, because her last role before her death was 1997's Cats Don't Dance
@@sirjedisentinel Well why should a 33 year gap make the difference? the point is she made 2 final movies before she died. And what a talent she was.
Fun trivia: Betty was in 2 episodes of "The Dick Van Dyke Show", previous to being in MP.
I think you may have confused her with Jane Darwell, who played the Bird Woman. Essentially retired, Disney persuaded her to play that part, her last appearance on film.
@@cliffchristie5865 The Bird Woman and The Old Crone are two different characters. Betty only gets about 5 seconds of screen time.
-Castor oil is a laxative that used to be given to children a lot
-gruel is a thin watery porridge
-barley water is a drink. Kind of a tonic made from soaking Barley in water and straining it.
-punting. Boating. A punt is a kind of boat.
Barley water is supposed to be good at fixing stomach problems including ULCERS, although I glass may not be enough, in fact I am sure it is not. Anybody with ulcers should look into it though - I know more information is given on the internet. It is a relatively fast cure (I believe) & is pretty cheap & easy. As it is from food it is relatively safe. (Everyone even using food cures should check into what ALL a food/drink does, as you may have some OTHER health issue that the food will make worse!)
As a music theatre major, this HITS SO HARD for me... As a nanny, her last lines always simultaneously Inspire & CRUSH me... "It's as it should be." So glad you got to see it finally. Cheers to the WONDROUS Glynis Johns (and the entire cast)!
I met Julie Andrews at a book convention back in 2001. She was signing her latest children’s book. The way the con was set up, the high demand authors had signings in the back area, and the top-tier ones required tickets that you would get in the morning. That day, I got there at 5:30 am to get in line just to get one for Julie. After I got my tickets at one of the booths and was walking away, they came on the intercom to announce that her tickets were all gone, and the groans of disappointment were really loud. When I walked up to her table, all I could think was “I am standing three feet away from Mary Frickin’ Poppins!!!” She looked amazing, just flawless, even then. We exchanged a few words and then I burbled something about how I was such a huge fan all of my life, and she was very kind, handed me my book, and I walked away, completely buzzed over the thrill of meeting her.
I'm jealous of Anne Hathaway she got to play Julie Andrew's granddaughter in Princess Diaries.
If ever I met Julie in person (which won't happen, but still) I would quite literally weep tears of joyful thanks. You lucky lady!
@@jeffwatkins352 Same. I adore her.
@@jeffwatkins352 - ME TOO!!
and then you woke up and typed all this made up bollocks for attention
She's the Nanny version of a guardian angel, a fairy godmother, and a Goddess. She's never entirely defined--but she's honored among those of heaven and earth.
And a good witch. In the books she turns her fingers into sugar and snaps them off and gives them to the children to eat.
A unique theory was floating around here on RUclips that Mary Poppins comes from the same universe as Pennywise the clown. Pennywise feeds off fear while Mary Poppins feeds off happiness.
she is a Time Lord.
Another great Disney Musical from this era to watch is Bedknobs and Broomsticks with Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson (the father) from this film.
A lot of fun facts for this film:
1. Many of the "women" who wait outside to apply for the nanny position are actually men because they couldn’t find enough ugly women.
2. In the animation sequence people like the songwriters, Julie Andrews and multiple others do voices and David Tomlinson voiced Mary Poppins Parrot umbrella at the end.
3. The choreographers Marx Beraux and Dee Dee Wood would go on to do the choreography for many other classic musicals including: The Sound of Music, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and The Slipper and the Rose.
4. The woman who played the Bird Woman is legendary Actress Jane Darwell who starred in over 100 films and at the time she had been retired, but Walt Disney convinced her to be in the film and personally sent a car to pick her up everyday and treated her like Royalty. This was her last film before her death and she said how wonderful it was especially the way Walt was for her.
5. Besides being Bert in the film Dick Van Dyke as Mr Dawes Sr when he would be dressed up in all that makeup he would troll the backlot tours by making them think it was an old man and cross in front of them as slowly as possible then right as they were about to pull away he would sprint off as quickly as possible! Also that credit was at the end of the end credits as Navckid Keyd and then the letters unscramble themselves to spell Dick Van Dyke plus there is a chorus reprise of Let’s Go Fly a Kite: ruclips.net/video/Kt4IoCOztMU/видео.html
6. Julie Andrews was hoping to be in the film version of My Fair Lady which she started on broadway, but Warner Brothers wanted someone who was actually a star as Julie had not been in a film yet so they went with Audrey Hepburn. However the story doesn’t end there as Julie Andrews was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy opposite Audrey Hepburn for My Fair Lady and she won and in her acceptance speech she ended it with “Finally my thanks to a man who made a wonderful movie and made this all possible in the first place Mr Jack Warner.” and everyone lost it including Mr Warner. Then at the Academy Awards this film was nominated for 13 Oscars and won for:
Best Actress,
Best Song for Chim Chim Cheree,
Best Original Score,
Best Visual Effects,
and Best Film Editing. It was nominated for Best Picture, Director, Art Direction, Costume Design, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Scoring Treatment, and Sound unfortunately losing many of those to My Fair Lady.
7. Ed Wynn (Uncle Albert) was the Mad Hatter Walt always wanted to have him in something he appeared in several other Disney films including: The Absent Minded Professor, Son of Flubber, and Babes in Toyland.
8. When they were in the early development stages of the film Walt gave his songwriters Richard and Robert Sherman a copy of the book to read of what they thought would be good material for the film and they underlined six chapters in red crayon and when they went in to see Walt they handed him the book and he chuckled because in his copy of the book he had underlined the exact same six chapters in red crayon as well.
9. The inspiration for the song “A Spoonful of Sugar came with Richard Sherman’s son came home from school and he asked what had happened to learn he had been given the polio vaccine to which his dad asked if it hurt and he explained no they put the medicine on a sugar cube on a spoon and we swallowed it. A literal spoonful of sugar helped the medicine go down.
10. When the brothers were playing songs for Walt one day a couple hours they thought would work for the film at the end he asked them to play that bird woman song again to which Walt walked over to the window saying “That’s what it’s all about isn’t it?” Referring to the theme of the film. It was Walt’s favorite song the studio ever made and every Friday Walt would meet with the brother and just talk about things going on at the studio and other projects and at the end of their meeting he would always ask them to play the song by saying “Play it” and when they finished it he would send them off saying “Have a good weekend boys.”
11. Even after Walt’s death Richard Sherman would still go into Walt’s office on a Friday afternoon and play the song and on what would have been Walt’s 100th Birthday he went the celebration when the dedication of the Partners statue was unveiled and played the song saying it was only for Walt at the end of the song he blew a kiss to the statue said Happy Birthday and walked off, but he was told later on that when he was nearing the end of the song out of the clear blue sky a single bird came down near the piano and off back into the sky.
12. All of Mary Poppins was filmed indoors.
13. The old woman that children encountered when they run away from the bank is the actress who voiced Cruella De Vil in “101 Dalmatians”.
14. P.L. Travers who was the original author of the Mary Poppins books had refused Walt Disney’s offers to make it into a film for over 20 years and so in the late 50’s he actually went to meet her in her London home hoping to use his personal charm on her and so soon after she finally gave him the rights to make the film, but during the early stages Robert Sherman who was one of the songwriters along with his brother said “She was a witch” and absolutely hated everything everyone was wanting to do, but she was basically only a consultant, after the release of the film she wanted nothing to do with it and in the early 90’s she allowed the studio to only do two things in regards to the property.If they so choose to a sequel film could be done. A broadway show, but no one involved with the original film could be part of that project,
15. When Glynis Johns received the call from Walt to be in the film she though she was going to play Mary Poppins, but Walt wanted her as the mother and so she said as a little incentive if she could haver her own song for the film and so the Sherman Brothers rewrote a previous unused song called “Practically Perfect” into “Sister Suffragette”,
16. Many songs and sequences for the film were thought up including where the children would spin a compass and it would take them to different areas and a different song for each area where one was called North Pole Polka, another Tea in Timbuktu, while the other two unused songs found their way in other Disney films later on with The Land of Sand being reworked to become Trust in Me in The Jungle Book from 1967, and The Beautiful Briny Sea would end up in Bedknobs and Broomsticks,
17. Several of the chimney sweep dancers were the old men on the bench in Enchanted during the song “That’s How you Know”
18. Know before Walt had chose Julie to play Mary Poppins several people that were thought of as possibilities included: Bette Davis and Angela Lansbury then one sunday night the Sherman Brothers saw on the Ed Sullivan Show an excerpt performance of a broadway show called Camelot where Julie Andrews was the lead actress and they knew immediately she was the one so the next day they marched into Don Dagradi’s (another writer on the film) office and he said to them did you see the Ed Sullivan Show last night so all three of them went to Walt’s office and so then Walt went to see a performance of Camelot in New York and met with her after the show and was able to convince her to be in the film and Walt was willingly to wait as she was pregnant at the time and Julie’s husband then also ended up part of the film as he designed all of the costumes,
18. Dick Van Dyke ended up in the film because of an article Walt read of how he didn’t like that films then were becoming as he described as “dirty pictures” also it helped that basically everyone knew who Dick was as he had a hit tv show with The Dick Van Dyke show and this was only his second film after being in a film version of the broadway show Bye Bye Birdie,
19. The inspiration for the song Let’s Go Fly a Kite was actually from the Sherman Brothers childhood as there dad as they said would make these wonderful kites that would fly all day,
20. The inspiration for the song Step in Time is actually an old english folk song called Knees Up Mother Brown and the Sherman Brothers learned about it as Peter Ellenshaw who did the vidual effects and matte paintings and glass paintings for the film was basically they resident Brit taught the dance to on3 of the writer Bill Walsh and Walt Disney and Richard Sherman saw the three of them with their elbows linked together in the office kicking their knees up,
20. The inspiration for the song Supercalifragilisticexpiladocious was the Sherman Brothers wanted to make it so Mary Poppins gave the children a gift in the form of this ridiculously long word and the medley for it was two British Folk Songs: Boiled Beef and Carrots along with Any Old Iron,
21. When on the carousel the horses match their personalities,
22. The two children in the film Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber appeared in a total of three films for Disney together this was their second the previous is The Three Lives of Thomasina and the latter was The Gnome Mobile unfortunately Matthew would die of Food poisoning in the 70’s,
23. The reason there is Penguins is instead of waiters is that Walt Disney saw Storyboards where they were men and he said “Waiters always reminded me of penguins”.
One other thing I wanr to note is my advising against watching Saving Mr. Banls and Mary Poppins Returns.
YES!!!!!!!!
Bedknobs and Broomsticks, FTW!
It seems to be so forgotten in Disney's last 40 years.
Also both escape to, and from Witch Mountain.
And everything involving "Herbie: the Love Bug"
@@kennethcook9406The first Herbie film is great, second is good, third is okay, and fourth onward are just trash. Not even having Bruce Campbell could help.
I was totally gonna suggest Bedknobs and Broomsticks too! Fantastic movie
Bed knobs and broomstick is great
I love that film...
The bird woman was played by Oscar winner Jane Darwell in her last screen appearance. She was semi-retired at the time, living in the Motion Picture Retirement Home as she was unable to care for herself & had declined the role, but Walt wanted her so he drove to the home to flatter & charm her. It worked, so he arranged for a limo to pick her up & deliver her to the studio. She was treated like a queen. Jane won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in “The Grapes of Wrath” which starred Henry Fonda. She also had a minor role in the western “3 Godfathers” which starred John Wayne…it’s an Christmas movie. She had a very long movie career.
"Feed the Birds" was Walt Disney's favorite song as well. One of the Sherman brothers would come and play it for Walt. It was a scene that was very near and dear to him.
If you want to watch her play a character, who is the polar opposite of most of her roles, have a look at The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), which starred Henry Fonda. She was an amazing actress.
I'm sure someone mentions this here, but the nanny who quits at the beginning is Elsa Lanchester, "the Bride of Frankenstein" (even though she played all kinds of roles).
The “Do Re Mi” song is from the musical The Sound of Music but it is sung by Julie Andrews. This is the movie reaction I didn’t know I needed! So delightful! I always enjoy that hearty Ashleigh laugh.
Some trivia: When making plans to make Mary Poppins, Walt Disney really wanted Julie Andrews for the part after seeing her in "Camelot" on Broadway. When she mentioned she was pregnant, he offered to wait until she had her baby to start filming and offered her then-husband, Tony Walton, the job of designing costumes and some sets for this movie.
Also the song “Feed the Birds” was Walt’s favorite song to the point where if he ever visited the music studio and said “play it” everyone would know what song he was referring to.
And this song was emotionally moved to the author of Mary Poppins. That author was a spit fired! Watch Mr. BANKS WITH TOM HANKS & U WILL UNDERSTAND. One year later after this movie was made, Walt Disney passed away. And then in the 70s, the character who played Michael, he passed away in the 70s. He was about 21 and died for water poison in India
Search him & I did. It was so sad.
I watched this movie every single day for YEARS as a child. And not like a 4 year old... until I was like 12. I was obsessed. I'm still obsessed. Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke are brilliant. The whole vibe of Mrs. Banks totally went over my head as a child and it's so fascinating to see the contrast in the couple. RIP Glynis.
same
Same here and actually as I kid I never even realized they were husband and wife and she the children's mother. lol I kept thinking she was his sister and the kids' aunt. As a kid I didn't get that in earlier times families didn't outwardly show as much affection.
We watched this movie whenever it aired on tv . I’m surprised you didn’t recognize that Dick Van Dyke played two characters on this movie. He was Bert and the old banker who passed away from laughter. Always makes my day when you enjoy the old films. Hope this year of reactions brings you some happiness in all that you do. Thank you for sharing with us , it brightens my day because I can watch another reaction with you and all the other viewers. Thank you!!!!!!
As a fan of Julie Andrews (grew up on her films) ... you really must watch "The Sound of Music" as that was where many of us, as children discovered her and how magical she could be. She would later go on to marry Blake Edwards - who was an incredible producer/director in Hollywood for MANY years (perhaps he was best known for his Pink Panther films with Peter Sellers... he was also responsible for many many classic comedies (including one of my personal favorites "The Great Race" with Tony Curtis (Jaime Lee Curtis' father), Natalie Wood, and Jack Lemmon) ... AND he and Julie Andrews gave us one of my favorites, "Victor-Victoria" which was WAY ahead of its time in representing the LGBTQ community
I also recommend Julie Andrews in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "SOB"
The sound of music was one of those movies that was on TV every year as an event, and everybody stopped and watched it. If you haven’t seen it, you really should just for the cultural exposure if nothing else. It’s a beautiful story based loosely on real events & it has a lot of fun songs.
The Victor/Victoria recommendation is A plus. That is one of my most favorite movies, even if it wasn’t played on tv every year like SoM. Robert Preston (who is famous for The Music Man, another fun musical) plays an old Queen & Julie Andrews plays a starving soprano who can’t get a job. The old man hears her sing & decides to put her in a drag show where she’s a woman pretending to be a man, who is pretending to be a woman. It’s fabulous. Please check it out someday! 🙏😄
Elsa Lancaster (Katie Nanna) played the title roll in "Bride of Frankenstein".
Ed Wynn (Uncle Albert) was the voice of the Mad Hatter in Disney's "Alice in Wonderland".
David Tomlinson (Mr. Banks) was in "The Love Bug".
Glynnis Johns (Mrs. Banks) was in "The Court Jester".
But the next movies you should see are "The Sound of Music" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"
Glenn's John's who played Mrs Banks also played the grandma in While You Were Sleeping
David Tomlinson was also in, Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
Ed Wynn's son, Keenan, played Col. Bat Guano in Dr Strangelove
"But the next movies you should see are "The Sound of Music" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang""
A great big gigantic YES to both of these suggestions!
Those were the exact two I had in mind! So hard to choose between more Julie Andrews or more Dick van Dyke!
No matter what kind of day I'm having, the entire "I Love To Laugh" scene with Ed Wynn never fails to lift my spirits. The jokes make me laugh no matter how many times I've heard them.
I am so glad you enjoyed this! A real classic! A good follow up movie that I liked is "Saving Mr. Banks". it is about the making of "Mary Poppins" and P. L. Travers (author of the Mary Poppins series of books), including where she came up with her characters and dealing with Walt Disney (played by Tom Hanks). A wonderful story in its own right! A follow up movie for Dick Van Dyke would be "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and Julie Andrews "The Sound of Music". Thank you for sharing your reactions! it is like watching these classics again in new eyes! 😀
Excellent suggestions. Seconded.
Thirded
Definitely watch Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It is a fantastic musical comedy based on a book by Ian Fleming, the author of the original James Bond books. He wrote the story as a gift to his son.
My vote for this as well, with the amazing Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks,
This is what I came to recommend!
If you need more Julie Andrews then you MUST see "The Sound of Music"! Also a musical with a lot of fun moments but also more serious and powerful as it is based on a true story.
"Feed the Birds" is my favorite song. It reminds me to look past the end of my nose and to see the world around me and to stop selfishly focusing on me. And to pay it forward whenever you can.
Thanks for doing this one 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Van Dyke was the old man at the bank that died laughing😂🤣😂.
If you want more Julie Andrews, she narrates the Bridgeton series. Also, you can see her in the Princess Diaries.
Dick Van Dyke also appears in the sequel playing the old man’s son.
Edit: just realized he played both Bert and the old banker. He is so talented!
Dick Van Dyke actually caught a lot of flak for his accent, as it was considered a pretty terrible approximation of a London Cockney accent, but it still makes the movie so fun. Dick Van Dyke was always my favorite actor for many years because of this movie, an incredible physical comedian, and his TV show (The Dick Van Dyke Show) shaped me in my formative years (I wasn't alive when it first aired, but I caught the reruns as a child on Nick at Nite). He also played the old man at the bank, the one who couldn't make it down the step and who floated up from the wooden leg joke at the end.
For more Gylnis Johns (and more physical comedy) I highly recommend The Court Jester with the incredible Danny Kaye, another physical comedian/actor/singer/dancer like Dick Van Dyke who really shaped my sensibilities for comedy and physical humor. They don't make stars like Kaye and Van Dyke anymore.
Growing up, I actually thought he was British because of this movie.
Worst accent very, and he thought he was nailing it. Longest running joke in cinema history. It just his regular American accent with a few odd soundly words thrown in occasionally.
yess Imm still waiting for a popular YOU tuber to review THE COURT Jester, because its just a perfect family film and witty and fun all around. Danny Kaye was just soo good and even 20 years later he still could recite that wild rhyme of "the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true" lol
Another film that Glynis was in was a movie called "The Ref" with Denis Leary.
She plays a delightfully evil Mother in Law!
@@michaelceraso1977it's probably one of my top 5 movies
A true experience : In 1970
I worked with a nice older lady named Helen, silver haired and
wearing red pointed glasses.
She brought me ice cream on
short breaks and always left
me her lunch (I was a "washer
upper"). It was in Cambridge,
UK and on a visit a year later I
got lost and she appeared from an alley and gave me
directions. Two years later the
same thing happened. Finally
I moved back for a year in '75.
I bought a paper to look for a
room and standing in front of
a big Hotel I saw Helen who
had finished her shift. "Hello,
dear " she said, and proceeded
to help me with the ads. This
time I reminded her of all the
above facts and told her :"Why
don't you finally admit you are
a Fairy?". She sweetly replied
" Oh, Luv, if I were, would I still
be working at my age?". She did not deny being something
else though...❤❤❤
Glynnis is also amazing in "The Court Jester." Also stars Danny Kaye, Angela Lansbury, and Basil Rathbone!! HILARIOUS and adventurous movie with an all-star cast!
You MUST react to this film. Hilarious. Sadly Glynis and Angela were the last two surviving credited actors from it (unsurprising, as they were most likely the youngest of the main cast), both no longer with us now.
(And with Mary Poppins, after 60 years since its release, Dick Van Dyke's accent coach may soon be eligible for parole from prison)
The Court Jester is great, I haven’t seen it for years.
I have a chalice... it's from the palace.
@@pheverdream5618 The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
@@THEforeigner3 And never forget that the pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon.
Uncle Albert was played by Ed Wynn. He voiced several classic Disney characters like the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. Younger viewers will recognize the voice because the actor who voiced King Candy in Wreck-it Ralph was doing a spot-on impersonation of him.
Alan Tudyk
Wynn was a long time comedian and did have a TV series in the dim past.
Ed Wynn's son is Keenan Wynn who famously played Col. "Bat" Guano in
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Walt consider Ed a lucky charm. No one else was suitable for this part, as far as Walt was concerned.
Which brings up the fact Walt personally produced this show being involved with every craftsmen.
And twenty years of radio. I imagine vaudeville before Radio.
9:27 "medicine go down... well this is going to be stuck in my head the rest of the day"
It's been at least 30 years since I've seen this and just that bit (from you) is enough to bring the melody back.
10:20 - So fun story about Bert. In the beginning of production for this movie, they had an idea to adapt a minor chimney sweep character from the Mary Poppins books for the film, but as they researched Victorian chimney sweeps for the role, they discovered this whole culture built up around them with myths and superstitions and what they did when they weren't chimney sweeping and they decided to build up the minor character into a pseudo-narrator and major character.
10:29 - 'Punting' is riding around in a pole-driven boat. It's like Venician gondolas without the canals.
11:10 - Most people ship Mary and Bert, but I think most often the interpretation is that Bert was a child Mary was nanny for years ago and he's seen her come down several times sine then.
16:46 - Comedy legend Ed Wynn. He was a very prolific actor in his day, but you may know him as the voice of the Mad Hatter in Disney's Alice in Wonderland.
17:01 - The movie doesn't address it, but the books explain that whenever he loses himself to laughter, he gets filled with 'laughing gas' and floats to the ceiling.
19:12 - 'Practically perfect in every way.'
26:12 - I just love that when he tells them about Mary Poppins, he calls her ' *my* nanny.'
It's easy to miss if you didn't watch through the credits, but The Elder Mr. Dawes was also played by Dick Van Dyke.
There's two movies you need to see after this. The first is 'Saving Mr. Banks.' It's the story of the author of the Mary Poppins books and of how Walt Disney negotiated with her for the rights to make the movie. Second is 'Mary Poppins Returns. It's a direct sequel to this movie that was made about 5 years ago. It's a less subtle film, but still enjoyable.
Hmm. I got to say, if Bert was from the kind of family that could have a nanny, he wouldn't have grown up to be a chimney sweep. (And he wouldn't speak in that accent either).
@@donaldb1 Unless his family didn’t learn the lesson that they were supposed to and Bert ran away at an early age.
Before watching Mary Poppins Returns she should watch "Bedknobs and broomsticks". Also a good and similar movie from the same time (I think it came out a year or two before or after) and it co-stars the actor that plays Mr. Banks in this movie (plus I think the little boy is in it as well but I could be remembering wrong) and there is a cameo of the maicameos. (Who I think she has said to be a fan of in the past) from it at the end of Mary Poppins Returns. So to see him in another similar movie and to understand the cameo.
@@Duke00x _Bedknobs and Broomsticks_ came after _May Poppins._ It was Disney's attempt to do something else similar (very similar!) I remember liking it a lot, but I saw it as a kid, I think at the cinema, before I saw Poppins.
Now that you've seen this masterpiece, please watch the movie Saving Mr. Banks. It was an Oscar nominee back in 2014...Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Colin Farrell...just to name a few. It gives a view of the life of the author of the Mary Poppins books. I think you'll love it. Incredibly moving. ❤️
Yep, Saving Mr Banks would be the obvious next film. It’s such a good movie 🍿 👍
Ashleigh loved the penguins, and the storyline of Saving Mr. Banks leans heavily on the penguins.
yes ! ❤
@@What_Makes_Climate_Tickand totally should be considered as alternate history for how differently positive it portrays disney.
This was my very first time hearing the English accent & then My Fair Lady as a child of the 80s. I love their accents. Thanks to my mom & my older sisters. ❤😂
Ashley, if you like this one you will probably enjoy Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, it's a true classic! Dick Van Dyke's charm and talent shine through once again in this whimsical adventure. While it may not be a Disney production, it captures that magical essence just like Mary Poppins. A timeless gem that brings back the joy of childhood every time I watch it!
I second that!
Katie Nana was played by Elsa Lanchester, who was the original Bride of Frankenstein. She did a lot of work for Disney over the years.
Ah yes, Blackbeard's Ghost!
That Darn Cat. @@fiddiehacked
Bell, Book and Candle!
My favorite Christmas movie.
Starred Jimmy Stewart and introduced Jack Lemmon...
That actress was also in a Danny Kaye movie, The inspector general. She's hitting on Danny Kaye so hard. It's hilarious.
@16:35 reminds me of the Barbas quest in Skyrim where you talk to a dog... and it takes us on a side quest! ABSOLUTELY YES!
There was a show on Disney+ a few years ago where they looked for props and stuff from older movies and Karen Dotrice (Jane) was shown her costume from this movie. It was so touching, and she was almost in tears with all the memories.
Julie Andrews is beautiful, and makes a decent looking man too! In Victor/Victoria, she plays a woman who becomes a female impersonator.
This movie was a GIGANTIC hit when it was released. It was nominated for 13 Academy Awards (including Best Picture, of course) and won five including Best Actress for Julie Andrews.
Just one year later she would star in "The Sound of Music." It was an even bigger hit, surpassing "Gone with the Wind" as the highest grossing film off all-time. Andrews was nominated for Best Actress again, but lost to Julie Christie in the movie "Darling."😁
Since you liked the penguins, if you ever rewatch Roger Rabbit you'll see them as the wait staff at the club where Jessica sings.
In the dance world, that Steppin' Time dance scene is legendary for being one of the most exhausting, athletic dance 😂. It's intricate and requires you to basically be using the same muscles you use to jump... In other words, the entire thing is like doing intricate jumping jacks for like 10 minutes straight 😂
The Step In Time in the stage musical is AMAZING. The chimney sweeps dance ALL around the proscenium. One of my favorite parts.
And in synchronization with like 20 other people.
It’s great that you’re dedicating this to Glynis Johns, she was AMAZING. RIP 🙏🏼 Also since you mentioned how the boy (Matthew Garber) looks like a grown person, he actually died at age 21 in 1977.
Aw, that’s so sad. And now I can’t finish cleaning the ceiling…
16:50
BTW, same guy that voiced The Mad Hatter in Disney’s Alice In Wonderland (1951) and played the toy maker in Babe In Toyland!
And “Babes in Toyland” is another wonderfully weird Disney musical. Save it for Christmastime.
The "A man has dreams" scene, where Bert songs the "Spoonfull of Sugar" reprise to Mr. Banks is one of my favorite scenes of all time.
Just the way Banks' face changes as he reals what a schmuck he's been is priceless.
So much fun watching how much fun you have watching such a fun movie.
As has been mentioned, _The Sound of Music_ for more Julie Andrews, and for the great Rodgers and Hammerstein score.
For Dick van Dyke either _Chitty Chitty Bang Bang_ or _Bye Bye Birdie._
In its original Broadway run _Bye Bye Birdie_ won four Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Featured Actor for Dick van Dyke. In the film adaptation he reprises his Tony winning role. It's also the film that introduced Ann-Margret, and it co-stars Janet Leigh (which I mention knowing how much you like a Jamie Leigh Curtis connection).
I second Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for the fantasy aspects similar to Marry Poppins.
I love this, but I’m also sad you didn’t get to experience it as a kid. Take the magic you feel now and x100 and that’s how it felt. The carpet bag scene alone was everything to my childhood imagination ❤
Same. So much so that I actually requested to go to the library to find books to figure out how they did it. Which made it even more awesome a trick when I figured it out.
I have seen this movie innumerable times, and even raised my kids with these lullabies and sayings. My 21-year-old still hops to it when I say "Spit Spot!" 😄❤️ THANK YOU!
A magical musical of a movie for children of all ages. Fun fact: Dick Van Dyke not only starred in this movie, but also appeared in 'Mary Poppins Returns' (2018). Much to her credit, Dame Julie Andrews did not appear in Mary Poppins Returns because she felt the film was "Emily's show" (Emily Blunt) and "did not want to hog the spotlight."
"Punt" is a king of boat that is driven by a long stick that is used to push along the bottom of the river.
Fun facts: Uncle Albert (the man whose contagious laughter makes him fly) is played by comedian Ed Wynn. Disney fans also know him as the voice of the Mad Hatter from _Alice in Wonderland._
Julie Andrews almost didn't play Mary Poppins. Disney actually other choices, even Angela Lansbury to play the title role before Julie was cast. She was originally supposed to reprise her stage role Eliza Dolittle in the film version of My Fair Lady. But executives at Warner Bros passed her over for the more popular actress Audrey Hepburn in the part, even though we don't really hear her sing. (I'm not saying Audrey's performance was bad, I just wish she actually sang in the film rather than having someone dub her voice. I can buy it animated films, but it's a stretch in live action musicals.) Disney then jumped at the chance, and picked Andrews to play Mary Poppins.
I heard Audrey's actual singing voice instead of the woman who sang for her. Audrey has a great voice. She sang in Breakfast at Tiffany's. I also wish they would have used Audrey's actual singing voice. They had her change her voice to Cockney. But not her actual singing voice.
And when Julie Andrews won her Best Actress Oscar for Mary Poppins the first thing she said in her acceptance speech was "Thank you Jack Warner" who was famously the reason why she wasn't cast in My Fair Lady.
@@procrastinator547 in the film and stage versions he was played by Howard da Silva.
Mccartney's uncle albert?
When making Wreck It Ralph, they also modeled the character of King Candy after him. Maybe that is what is familiar?
Semi fun fact : The woman who plays their first nanny is the Bride of Frankenstein. Also, Id love to see a reaction to Mary Poppins Returns which is a newer sequel with Emily Blunt but I feel still lives up to the magic plus has Angela Lansbury in her last film role. For other Julie Andrews films there is The Sound of Music (thats the Do-Re-Mi song youre thinking of) or Victor/Victoria maybe for June (Pride month).
There's also movie about the making of Mary Poppins with Tom Hanks as Walt Disney.
"mary poppins returns" never happens. I reject that movie from my reality.
The other movie I know Elsa Lanchester from is *Blackbeard's Ghost.* I didn't know she was the Bride of Frankenstein!
"Mary Poppins" is an ALL TIME CLASSIC. "Mary Poppins Returns" is something parents throw on to shut their children up for a couple hours.
@@keithdean9149 It was cute, and they tried to recapture the classic feel of the original, but whether they made it TOO similar--they hit all the same plot beats--or too modern I'm not sure, it just didn't feel right. Maybe the addition of a mustache-twirling Colin Firth ruined it for me, since *Mary Poppins* doesn't have a proper villain.
The “bank” part and the father’s redemption is the heart and soul of this movie.
Ashleigh I for one would SO wholeheartedly enjoy seeing you get into the classic movie musicals! There are so many good ones, especially from the 60s and 70s. I especially love “The Sound of Music” (for more Julie Andrew’s!), “My Fair Lady” (the beautiful Audrey Hepburn), and “Fiddler on the Roof” (sad at times but incredibly engrossing storytelling).
Yes to all of these.
And Judy Garland, in, "Meet Me In St. Louis" (1944)
A lot of fun & some great songs.
Mary Poppins has always been one of my favorites! Dick Van Dyke is an absolute legend. This movie is so amazing from a technical standpoint!
Also, fun fact: Walt loved Feed the Birds. If he was having a rough day he would have one of the Sherman brothers play it for him. When it is played at the parks it is almost always used as a tribute to Walt!
Someone get Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on the polls
You probably recognize Ed Wynn's voice mostly because so many of Alan Tudyk's characters are modeled after his voice 😂😂 But also, he was the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland! Among many other things. ❤
It’s funny you mentioned that Marry Poppins could be a horror movie. Years ago someone made a fake movie trailer where they took clips from the movie and put suspenseful music over them to make it seem like a horror movie and it’s incredibly effective.
There’s a real rabbit hole of family movies edited to seem like horror and thrillers out there.
Yes, look it up here on RUclips. I believe it's titled "Scary Mary Poppins".
In an inverted example, there's also a fake trailer (possibly by the same person) for The Shining done in the style of a heartwarming goofy family comedy
There may be several. Editing is Everything did one, and you can find that video on her channel.
Loved your reaction Ashleigh! This film is a classic and one of my favorite childhood films. Now that you've seen this, I would definitely recommend watching "Saving Mr. Banks." The film focuses on P.L. Travers, the woman who wrote the book of Mary Poppins that this film is based on, and the experiences she had working with Walt Disney and his cast members on the film. Tom Hanks plays Walt Disney and Emma Thompson plays P.L. Travers. It's a great film and honestly kind of a tear jerker.
I love saving mr. Banks one of my favorite movies! I’d love to see Ashleigh’s reaction to it
@@frannybaronian It's a beautiful film with a great cast and a magical score.
if you really love the music, I recommend the documentary "The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story"
Saving Mr. Banks would be a great follow up.
@@kelly9876 I meant the Thomas Newman score for Saving Mister Banks
One of my favorite scenes in any movie is Mr banks walking towards the bank, with the music of Feed the Birds playing, and him walking past the places of where the children went during the movie...i get a tear in my eye
I loved this movie as a kid (I'm 58 now), and hadn't watched it for years as an adult because I thought it may not hold up. But one day a friend lent me the DVD when he found out I hadn't watched in years. And it was even more magical than I'd remembered. ❤
I love that you used subtitles. I always use them in musicals because it helps me catch all the brilliant lyrics that can push the story forward.
I love too that the two tuppence songs essentially point out the difference between putting money in the bank to get richer and putting money to use helping others.
It's also helpful to us since she can't play the music
Subtitles are sometimes helpful when they get them right. They can, however, get confusing when the policeman on the phone says that it is not Mr Bank's "regular 'abit" (dropping the h in habit) but the subtitle says "regular rabbit." Captioning is done quickly and cheaply, and so such errors are all too common.
@@TedLittle-yp7uj You have a good point but its better than complete silence and no subtitles during a song.
The song you mentioned was from The Sound of Music. I hope you react to that one too. It also stars Julie Andrews and I think you're really going to find Christopher Plummer dreamy because, as someone in her 30's, I know I do. Also if you haven't reacted to it yet, I hope you'll do another one of my favourites since you said you like animation in live action movies: Bedknobs and Broomsticks. It also stars David Tomlinson (who played Mr. Banks in Mary Poppins) along with Angela Lansbury.
P.S. The old man who owned the Bank was also played by Dick Van Dyke.
Watching this as a child was so magical and is still magical even as an adult. The Sound of Music is the other movie you were thinking of and stars Julie Andrews as well. (also a very good musical)
Dick Van Dyke's a legend.
She he does anything, he takes it to the max and then some.
16:50 - Uncle Albert was played by Ed Wynn. You might recognize his voice as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland
I had the pleasure of seeing a Disney licensed Stage Play version about 10 years ago. The Chimney scene was indeed awesome! Real live tap dancing is amazing to see! They also had Mary "fly" up over the audience to the balcony to exit! Great movie, some strange moments indeed. I always enjoy seeing you react!
You might really enjoy “Saving Mr. Banks,” which tells some of the behind the scenes stories of the making of this movie, along with a fictionalized biography of the author. It stars Tom Hanks as Walt Disney and Emma Thompson as “P.L. Travers” (the author’s pseudonym).
I’m surprised that movie didn’t do better. It’s really good, and the performances are fantastic.
Now with Mr. Banks I have serious problems with. It is clearly a failed Oscar-Bait film that alters a lot of facts and add things that never happened:
First of all Travers had signed over the rights before she went to California.
Second there was no Ralph the Driver.
Third the song that won her over was Feed the Birds not Let’s Go Fly a Kite.
Fourth Traver never went to Disneyland.
Fifth one of the few things that was right is she did tape record all of the story meetings and was an absolute B%$th to the Sherman Brothers.
Sixth is more of a personal complaint is when she sees Robert Sherman using a cane and makes a jab that he probably deserved it. He fought in World War 2.
Seventh the making references to the film things these kind of movies do to be specific what they do to incorporate ideas and lines from Mary Poppins to make it seem as though it was part of her childhood when that didn’t happen.
@@jamesmoyner7499 You must be fun at parties.
@@jamesmoyner7499 Robert Sherman didn't just fight and get wounded -- he helped liberate a concentration camp. It always amazes me how he went from seeing the most evil things people can do to writing such charming, happy, and catchy songs.
@@rcrawford42 Oh, I know. I watched the documentary about them.
Great reaction Ashleigh! RIP Glynis. Another more recent Julie Andrews film I highly recommend watching is "The Princess Diaries" with Anne Hathaway (her first film). Also, fun fact: Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke have remained good friends ever since they starred in this "Mary Poppins".
My grandmother made me a Mary Poppins doll, in full Jolly Holiday dress, with the bows and parasol and all. She did it by rewatching my VHS and pausing it frame by frame to sketch the design and then sewed it.
This movie is iconic and has been spoofed so many times. My personal favorite is the Simpsons episode with "Sherry Bobbins". My goodness that episode spoofs this perfectly -- including the feet pointing each way (as she scrapes the hood of a car on her umbrella descent). And as others have mentioned I really, really hope you watch The Sound of Music. It's a lot heavier than this movie, but it's one of the greatest movies of all times and such a great watch.
I was always under the impression that Mary Poppins and Bert were both angels, always out to help the world in their own ways.
7:58 Ashleigh: "Ok, so she's like a witch?" 😂
I scrolled through some of the comments and hadn't seen it yet, but if it hasn't been said a lot of the larger, city-wide backgrounds were hand painted scenes on large panes of glass that had little tiny holes in the window areas to let light through and that's how they got that beautiful glowing and twinkling look. I love how much went into this movie for back when it was, and this knowledge makes the length of time of the movie easier. The movie flies by for me. I am so glad that you watched this though. Your genuine reaction to recognizing songs and people in movies is always so amazing.
According to Dick Van Dyke (Bert was my first movie crush, when it was rereleased, as Disney used to do), the reason his accent was so atrocious, is because his vocal coach was Irish, teaching him to speak British English. DVD is a legend, he really is. He's in his 90s now, and not long ago he was on The Masked Singer! He even did a little dance when they revealed him. He was also in the Mary Poppins sequel, which was a pretty good movie, and it made me tear up to see him. Then Angela Lansbury showed up, and I started sobbing. Speaking of which, Ashleigh, you still owe HER a movie, she passed in 2022. You may know her as Jessica Fletcher from "Murder, She Wrote." I recommend "Bedknobs and Broomsticks." It has the actor who played Mr. Banks in it too! Dick Van Dye and also several members of his family were in the show "Diagnosis Murder" where Van Dyke's character, Dr. Sloan, solves mysteries.
Some people already touted for Danny Kaye's "The Court Jester"... which does have Angela Lansbury in a leading role. That would make a perfect reaction for one of the great comedic actors _and_ Angela _and_ Glynis Johns.
I might actually recommend she watch the sequel Mary Poppins returns. I'm sure opinions are divided but I just love it and as you say both Dick Van Dyke and Angela Lansbury are in it. And I'm sure there'll be lots of requests for watching Saving Mr Banks as well.
That said if she hasn't watched Beauty and The Beast the animated film yet, then that would be amazing!
@@Groffili OH HECK YEAH!!!! i LOVE Danny Kaye! He was one of my first crushes too! I watch "White Christmas" with my husband on Christmas day every year. I haven't seen "The Court Jester" in ages, but remember it as being just seriously delightful! And Ashleigh enjoyed Kaye in "White Christmas" too, so I bet she'd be up for it! Patreons who have the power, would you be willing to make this happen?
Side note: I wonder if Danny Kaye and Dick Van Dyke were ever in something together? If they were, I'd probably swoon after a few minutes of it!
@@Loulizabeth All good choices. I liked Mary Poppins Returns. I mean, how can you go wrong with Lin Manuel Miranda? (Hope I spelled that right.)
@@DravenGal I also Love 'The Court Jester' and I'm so glad that so many people are aware of it. More than I'd thought. "The Vessel with the Pestle has the Brew that is True" scene is one of the best along with so many others! Plus as an aside, I'm also a Dr Who fan too.
"Is she a witch?" . . . YES!!!
THANK YOU! That scene where Michael can't get out of the closet terrified the bejeebers out of me when I was a kid. Finally someone acknowledges: "Mary Poppins could be a horror film". 🙂
I'm old enough to remember when this was first released. It was a huge deal, with a lot of advance hoopla and tie-ins. I remember a cereal company (I think it was Post) had toys in some of their cereals that were spring-loaded chimneys that launched a character into the air, like in the rooftop dance.
And my sister won a Halloween costume contest with her Mary Poppins costume that year.
The spring loaded chimney was from the Shreddy's cereal , I remember Shredies having some of the best prizes.
When my niece was little, her favorite was Mr. Banks, and she'd coo, "George!" as soon as he came on screen. It was adorable.
Ash, you need to see Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, the movie with the Do Re Mi song. It too is a musical and oddly similar to this, a woman trying to bring joy to the children of a strict father, with a touch of Casablanca, a love story told while escaping Nazis. Andrews begins as a nun, so it's even a precursor to Sister Act. Julie also stars in a Hitchcock movie, not Hitch's best but a bit of fun, called Torn Curtain. You may now consider yourself Popped. Thank you!
Even though there's a lot of artistic license taken in The Sound of Music, it is based on a real family, and real events. The movie is enchanting. Still a huge favorite from my childhood on, and I'm in my 50's.
Oh Girl, you just took me back to my childhood (I'm 66). I remember standing in line outside the theater box office with my family hoping there would be seats available (no reserved tickets or internet sales back then). My friends had all already seen it and couldn't wait to know what they were talking about. Now I have to go to the basement to the containers of 33&1/3 rpm albums to see if I still have the original album. Thank you for the reaction. Another Disney movie from the same era would be The Sword In The Stone (All animated) and not a musical. The King Arthur legend.
The Sword in The Stone was one of my favourites as a kid.
Mad Madame Mim is my favorite character. 😊
You are so right; like most of us boomers, I saw this in the theater zooming on LSD.
Love your reaction, as always! Did you know that Dick Van Dyke also love played the bank president? Also, Mary Poppins entire purpose in coming to the family was to help them, especially the father.
The actor that played the laughing Uncle Albert was Ed Wynn and he was 79 during the filming of Mary Poppins. He was also the voice of Disney's Alice in Wonderland and the voice of the Mad Hatter from Disney's Alice in Wonderland.
You should watch Saving Mr. Banks, which is a really sweet retelling of how Walt Disney got P.L. Travers (the writer of the Mary Poppin's books) to agree to let him make this movie.
As others have pointed out, the old banker was also Dick van Dyke, whose accent was largely overlooked while Bert's has been the target of ridicule for sixty years now. He played the son of that character in the fairly recent "Mary Poppins Returns" (the old man as you noticed having died off-screen at the end of the original, and the actual English actor who played the son in that having died shortly before the sequel was made). And in the process also repeated the joke about the man with a wooden leg named Smith.
He was excellent
And tap danced on a dang desk!! I love DvD so much!
You dropped this right when I needed it the most you absolute Angel of a human.
This was my childhood.
My Dad actually did clean our chimney singing that song.
Julie Andrews is my queen.
I’ve had such a bad week and you just made it so much better. I thank you.
Also do Victor/Victoria. You’ll thank me later
You can make your own kite with 2 sticks tied together into an X, a piece of cloth 2ft square and string, the last one I made flew 1800ft off the ground....we use 3 spools of cotton tied together....
I absolutely love this movie, and it was one of my favorites as a kid. I honestly kind of miss this old school Disney. I would honestly recommend you watch the sequel, Mary Poppins Returns, as well as Saving Mr. Banks, which is about the author of the book. And if you want to see more of Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, I would definitely recommend that you watch The Sound of Music and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
I came as soon as I heard!! This was an absolute staple of my childhood - honestly, I never really noticed the length simply because I watched it so much. I love that there's so much left up to interpretation (the nature of Mary's powers, her relationship with Bert, etc.), it really adds to the already incredibly level of whimsy. So sad to hear about Glynis' recent passing. If you want more of her, I can definitely recommend The Court Jester (also starring Danny Kaye and Angela Lansbury). It's a WILD ride!
Definitely The Court Jester. Ash needs to be introduced to Danny Kaye.
I would vote for Court Jester as well!
Would I vote for "The Court Jester"? "Yea, verially, yea!"
Also, this hadn't been released yet when she was cast for Sound of Music but the writers went to Disney to view footage to see how she was on the big screen and signed her before anyone else could. Sound of Music is long and has some serious parts but as others have said, it's a must watch. Her chemistry with the gorgeous Christopher Plummer was spot on and her character was vital in the amazing character arc he experienced. The cinematography and lighting was beyond perfection for the 60s and I'll watch all 3 hours just to hit play and watch another 3 hours if I have the time.
She was the last survivor of the Golden Age of Hollywood studios. Find some of the costume dramas she did back when color film first came in. They really hyped up the color saturation of those movies. And Glynis Johns, in that environment, was an absolute stunner.
Oh, also..."Doe, A Deer" is from another Julie Andrews movie, one of her most epic, called "The Sound Of Music." You won't find many people in my generation or older who haven't seen the play (my sister actually played the lead in a production of it) or the movie. It's a TRUE classic!
I was raised by a single mother, who always took me to the movies with her. I saw "The sound of Music" and Mary Poppins 7 times each as a child. I was 6 years old when Mary Poppins came out and remember it to this day.
@@stevenwoodward5923 It's unforgettable. I kinda miss the days when Disney would rerelease the classics every ten years or so. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to see them in theaters.
I'm always baffled, you've never seen the very movies I practically wrecked the tapes of from watching so much 😂
Julie Andrew's life is very fascinating. At the time, Warner Brothers wanted to make a movie version of the big Broadway hit "My Fair Lady". Julie had played the part of Elisa for years on stage with accolades, admiration and tremendous reviews. But WB didn't want to take a chance with a "unknown" actress and chose a known star Audrey Hepburn which allowed Walt to step in and scoop Julie up for the role of Mary Poppins. We are all glad that WB dropped the ball and allowed Julie to grace us as Mary. It also, broke her "type cast" and allowed her to then step into many different roles over the years.
And Julie went on to win Best Actress for "Mary Poppins" over Audrey for "My Fair Lady". Then in her Oscar speech she thanked the executive at WB who passed on her. Such a Queen!!
Glynis Johns was also in The Court Jester (1955) with Danny Kaye. That's definetely a movie worth reacting to!
Miranda and mad about men are also stellar performances
I was very young when this film got put on VHS. VHS was so new at the time that the idea of bringing a movie home and renting it and getting to watch it whenever you wanted to was extremely eye-opening. Before that if you had a favorite movie you only saw it when it was in the theater, and then after that you were just kind of going to be stuck with remembering it, because you we're never going to see it again unless maybe someday they chopped it up and edited it for television and put it on as a rerun. As a consequence of having this available on VHS, I watched it every day for about 4 years because it was my favorite movie... which I'm sure was a welcome development for my mother LOL. Before that it was hard to keep your kids occupied with TV, because cartoons were only on at certain times, but if you could put their favorite movie on multiple times a day you had no problems :-) . I watched it again as an adult and thought, well Mary Poppins is a little bit more stuck up than I remembered, but the magic is still there. You weren't remembering wrong, btw; she is also the person who changes everything in The Sound of Music. She had throat surgery at some point much later on and when she was in The Princess Diaries she couldn't sing the way she used to; her range had lowered quite a bit, but yes; she was incredible.
There're a lot of fan theories that she is a Time Lord related to Doctor Who (along with the teachers from The Magic School Bus), and/or that she and Bert knew each other because she was there to help him when he was a kid, because she doesn't age, which means he could be in love with her cuz he probably had a crush on her his whole life, but she doesn't go for that sort of thing. She's very proper. If I remember correctly this is one of the first movies to ever have the whole live-action-with-cartoons-interacting. It was a huge part of my childhood, I even decorated my dollhouse like the house in here because I was so obsessed with it. Glad you got to see it.
The odds of you seeing this are slight, but if you ever want to see Julie Andrews outside the "wholesome" roles, a couple of my faves are "The Americanization of Emily" and "10." I have always felt Dame Julie's acting talent is extremely underrated because so many don't know her outside of her roles as Mary Poppins and Maria.
Victor Victoria
S.O.B. is another good movie of hers
Or that she did a sex scene in a film written and shot by her husband. There is an absolutely hilarious interview with her on the Graham Norton show. Julie Andres, Jonah Hill, amd Channing Tatum. And her and Jonah flirt the entire time. It had me in painful stitches.