Mary Poppins, That Joyless Scold
When It Comes to P.L. Travers’s Book, It’s Not a Jolly Holiday with Mary
During the filming of Mary Poppins, Julie Andrew had to do several flying stunts for which she was suspended in air by cables and rigging.
In one of the final takes of the entire production, Andrews found herself hoisted aloft while she waited on the crew. “Suddenly,” she said in her 2019 memoir Home Work, “I felt my supporting wires drop by about a foot…
