Not only was this his favourite song from the film, it was his favourite song of all time! Even years later, Disney would phone up the Sherman brothers, who wrote the song, and ask them to play it for him. 'Feed the birds' was Walt Disney's favourite song Sadly, there is no Cherry Tree Lane in real life London, but there are lots of streets with Cherry trees, and if you visit at the right time, you can see them in bloom! 6. You can't deny that the full effect is beautiful. The famous trees on Cherry Tree Lane all had beautiful pink blossom - but it was all fake! Since it was all filmed on a Hollywood sound stage and not in London, each flower had been carefully made, by hand, out of plastic. For example, when Mary pours out the medicine and it comes out in different colours, Jane's gasp of surprise is real! They also didn't know that it was Dick Van Dyke in makeup playing old Mr. The film makers wanted to keep some of the magic alive to get real reactions out of the children playing Jane and Michael, so they weren't always told what was going to happen. The children didn't always know what was going to happen Dawes snr! Van Dyke loved the character so much that he asked to play both, and he was so convincing the children playing Jane and Michael didn't recognise him! 4. But he also plays the terrifying and doddery old bank boss Mr. Dick Van Dyke plays two charactersĭick Van Dyke is famous (or should we say infamous) as the chimney sweep with the somewhat dubious Cockney accent (Which he blamed partly on this dialect coach being from Lancashire). But she couldn't deny that the film was hugely popular with children, and it's this version of Mary that lives on today. It took whole decades to convince her to let them make the film, and when it came out, she hated it! To be fair to Travers, they did change a lot - adding songs, characters and stories that she didn't agree with, so she'd been right not to trust Disney. PL Travers was pretty protective of her books, and worried that Disney would ruin them, or at least change lots of things she considered important. The author didn't want to let Disney make the film And in the books, Mary suggest baking the pigeons from 'Feed the Birds' into a pie! Yikes! We're glad we got to see the Julie Andrews version! 2. In fact the author described her as 'Someone who never wastes time being nice'. However, unlike film Mary, who is strict but fair, the book Mary can be quite terrifying. The film was based on a series of books by PL Travers. But that doesn't mean it isn't great! From hand-crafted cherry blossom to penguin waiters, here are 15 fun facts all about the film, it's awesome characters and behind-the-scenes trivia. Er, actually, it might be the only film about that. Mary Poppins might be one of the greatest films about a magical nanny who jumps through chalk drawings and has tea parties on the ceiling to have ever existed.
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