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Fact-checking Saving Mr. Banks
Tom Hanks plays Walt Disney and Emma Thompson plays Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers.
The words “based on a true story” have lost their meaning lately. Movies allegedly rooted in fact invariably deviate from the truth, whether for creative or political reasons. With Oscar season bringing in a truckload of “based on a true story” movies, I thought it would be a good time to check up on the veracity of one highly buzzed film, Saving Mr. Banks, which covers the story behind the making of Disney’s Mary Poppins.
Claim: Walt Disney attempted to purchase the book rights for Mary Poppins from a skeptical P.L. Travers for 20 years.
Accuracy: True. Disney did in fact spend a long time trying to persuade Travers to sell the rights to her book, and Travers really did despise his movies, especially his earlier films such as Pinocchio and Bambi. In fact, during her stint at New English Weekly, she wrote an incredibly venomous review of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, suggesting that, “There is a profound cynicism at the root of his, as of all, sentimentality.”
Claim: Travers had a deeply troubled childhood in rural Australia, growing up under a loving but alcoholic father and an ineff
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P. L. Travers
Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist (1899–1996)
Pamela Lyndon TraversOBE (TRAV-ərz; born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-born British writer who spent most of her career in England.[1] She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of books,[2] which feature the eponymousmagical nanny.
Goff was born in Maryborough, Queensland, and grew up in the Australian bush before being sent to boarding school in Sydney. Her writing was first published when she was a teenager, and she also worked briefly as a professional Shakespearean actress. Upon emigrating to England at the age of 24, she took the name "Pamela Lyndon Travers" and adopted the pen name P. L. Travers in 1933 while writing the first of eight Mary Poppins books.
Travers travelled to New York City during World War II while working for the British Ministry of Information. At that time, Walt Disney contacted her about selling to Walt Disney Productions the rights for a film adaptation of Mary Poppins. After years of contact, which included visits to Travers at her home in London, Walt Disney obtained the rights and the film Mary Poppins premiered in 1964.
In 2004, a stage musical adaptation of the books and the film o