Editing P. L. Travers (section)

=== Disney version ===
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The [[Musical film|musical]] [[film adaptation]] ''Mary Poppins'' was released by [[Walt Disney Pictures]] in 1964. Primarily based on the original 1934 novel of the same name, it also lifted elements from the 1935 sequel ''Mary Poppins Comes Back''. The novels were loved by Disney's daughters when they were children, and Disney spent 20 years trying to purchase the film rights to ''Mary Poppins'', which included visits to Travers at her home in London.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/saving-mr-banks-true-story-walt-disneys-battle-make-mary-poppins/ "Saving Mr Banks: the true story of Walt Disney's battle to make Mary Poppins"]. ''The Telegraph''. Retrieved 17 May 2017</ref> In 1961, Travers arrived in Los Angeles on a flight from London, her first-class ticket having been paid for by Disney, and finally agreed to sell the rights, in no small part because she was financially in dire straits.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/07/pl-travers-saving-mr-banks-original-mary-poppins "What Saving Mr Banks tells us about the original Mary Poppins"]. ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 17 May 2017</ref> Travers was an adviser in the production, but she disapproved of the Poppins character in its Disney version; with harsher aspects diluted, she felt ambivalent about the music and she so hated the use of animation that she ruled out any further adaptations of the series.<ref name="newman">{{cite news|last=Newman|first=Melinda|date=7 November 2013|title=''Poppins'' Author a Pill No Spoonful of Sugar Could Sweeten: Tunesmith Richard Sherman recalls studio's battles with Travers to bring Disney classic to life|newspaper=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2013/music/features/poppins-author-a-pill-no-spoonful-of-sugar-could-sweeten-1200802019|access-date=7 November 2013}}</ref> She received no invitation to the film's star-studded premiere until she "embarrassed a Disney executive into extending one". At the after-party, she said loudly, "Well. The first thing that has to go is the animation sequence." Disney replied, "Pamela, the ship has sailed."

Travers so disliked the Disney adaptation and the way she felt she had been treated during the production that when producer [[Cameron Mackintosh]] approached her years later about making the [[Mary Poppins (musical)|British stage musical]], she acquiesced only on conditions that British writers alone and no one from the original film production were to be directly involved.<ref name="ouzounian">{{cite news|last=Ouzounian|first=Richard|date=13 December 2013|title=P L Travers might have liked Mary Poppins onstage|newspaper=The Toronto Star|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2013/12/13/pl_travers_might_have_liked_mary_poppins_onstage.html|access-date=6 March 2014}}</ref><ref name="rainey">{{cite news|last=Rainey|first=Sarah|date=29 November 2013|title=Saving Mr Banks: The true story of PL Travers|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10483126/Saving-Mr-Banks-The-true-story-of-PL-Travers.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10483126/Saving-Mr-Banks-The-true-story-of-PL-Travers.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |access-date=14 May 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> That specifically excluded the [[Sherman Brothers]] from writing additional songs for the production. However, original songs and other aspects from the 1964 film were allowed to be incorporated into the production.<ref name="rochlin1">{{cite news|last=Rochlin|first=Margy|date=6 December 2013|title=A Spoonful of Sugar for a Sourpuss: Songwriter Recalls P. L. Travers, ''Mary Poppins'' Author|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/movies/songwriter-recalls-p-l-travers-mary-poppins-author.html|access-date=14 May 2015}}</ref> Those points were later stipulated in her last will and testament.<ref name="norman">{{cite news|last=Norman|first=Neil|date=14 April 2012|title=The real Mary Poppins|newspaper=Daily Express|url=http://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/314394/The-real-Mary-Poppins|access-date=14 May 2015}}</ref><ref name="erbland">{{cite web|last=Erbland|first=Kate|date=26 December 2013|title=The Dark, Deep and Dramatic True Story of ''Saving Mr. Banks''|url=http://www.film.com/movies/the-true-story-of-saving-mr-banks|access-date=14 May 2015|website=Film.com|archive-date=5 January 2016|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160105050720/http://www.film.com/movies/the-true-story-of-saving-mr-banks}}</ref>

In the 1977 interview on the BBC's ''Desert Island Discs'', Travers remarked about the film, "I've seen it once or twice, and I've learned to live with it. It's glamorous and it's a good film on its own level, but I don't think it is very like my books."<ref>{{cite web|title=Saving Mr Banks (2013): Did the real P L Travers weep at the Mary Poppins movie premiere?|url=http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/saving-mr-banks.php|access-date=1 March 2020|publisher=History vs Hollywood}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009mzp2|title=Desert Island Discs: P L Travers|date=23 May 1977|time=17:02|access-date=1 March 2020|work=BBC Radio 4}}</ref>