Word: disneying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARY POPPINS. Julie Andrews proves she is a girl to conjure with in Walt Disney's droll musical fantasy about a London nanny who slides up banisters and performs all sorts of diverting miracles...
...Fair Lady, in Super Panavision 70 by Warner Bros., opens this month, and next winter Audrey Hepburn will almost certainly be a nominee for an Oscar. But curiously enough, Audrey Hepburn might very well lose the Oscar - to Julie Andrews. In Walt Disney's Mary Poppins, Julie has just opened to flat-out raves in New York and Los Angeles (TIME, Sept. 18), playing P. L. Travers' classic nanny with a sparkling sweetness that belies the original but also with an inner light that is original in itself...
Warners probably turned Julie down because she was only a Broadway star and not a sure draw at the movie box office. Disney, who considers his own name insurance enough, snapped her up for Mary Poppins; then Producer Marty Ransohoff, knowing that he could only profit by following Disney, cast Julie opposite James Garner in The Americanization of Emily, which opens in a fortnight or so. Twentieth Century-Fox was emboldened enough to leap into the act, too, putting Julie to work on the film version of The Sound of Music. Suddenly, at 29, she has become a thoroughgoing movie...
MARY POPPINS. In Walt Disney's drollest movie in years, Julie Andrews works miracles as the rosy-cheeked young nanny who slides up bannisters and whisks the kiddies off to the airier reaches of a fantasy that offers many more lifts than lapses...
PEPSI-COLA'S UNICEF exhibition warms the heart of every little girl at the fair with a boat ride through a fantasy of Disney dolls. Hundreds and hundreds of them, dressed in saris and kilts, Lederhosen and grass skirts, they wink and blink, nod and grimace, dance and sing to a joyful hymn in praise of world understanding called It's a Small World...