There’s Something About Julie

There’s Something About Julie

Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins in the 1964 Disney film adaptation of Pamela Lyndon Travers’s classic stories. How Walt Disney and the Sherman brothers landed on Julie Andrews for the role of Mary Poppins—without whom “A Spoonful of Sugar” would not exist By Todd James Pierce In the early 1960s, Walt Disney worked with the Sherman brothers, Bob and Dick, to develop the Mary Poppins stories into material for the screen. As Disney and the brothers, …