BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Walt Disney’s creative team had been laboring for more than three years on the movie adaptation of “Mary Poppins,’’ back in the early 1960s, when Disney himself let them in on a little secret: P.L. Travers, the British author of the children’s book that was their source material, hadn’t actually agreed to let them make the ...
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AM on February 5, 2011