P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson)—the irascible author of Mary Poppins—frets and complains bitterly throughout Saving Mr. Banks that her beloved story will lose its realistic edge in the hands of Walt ...

BURBANK, California (Reuters) - In the leafy, idyllic setting that is the Disney Studios lot, author P.L. Travers made life hell for writers and composers and Walt Disney himself in a movie that ...

I recently watched the Oscar-nominated film “Saving Mr. Banks,” which was about the making of the Disney movie “Mary Poppins.” I also watched the 40th anniversary edition of “Mary Poppins,” which my ...

“Saving Mr. Banks” is the ultra-Disneyfied version of the tale of Walt Disney convincing a hostile P.L. Travers to let him make a film of her “Mary Poppins” books.

Tom Hanks is Walt Disney and Emma Thompson is writer PL Travers in Saving Mr Banks, a story recounting the tumultuous and highly emotional journey that brought Mary Poppins to the big screen. François ...

Ian Collie is an Australian producer whose TV documentary, The Shadow of Mary Poppins , was the inspiration for the feature Saving Mr. Banks, starring Emma Thompson as author PL Travers and Tom Hanks ...