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'Roadshow' recounts death of the Hollywood musical by Jim Farber

The new film "Saving Mr. Banks" sweeps us back to a golden era in movie musicals. It depicts the making of "Mary Poppins," one of three singing-dancing extravaganzas of 1964-65 that made that time a commercial home run for the genre. What "Mr. Banks" doesn't tell us is what happened directly after that financial boon.

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM on January 12, 2014

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