Merry Christmas!
Santa Claus (or maybe just my brother) brought me the beautiful new Mary Poppins Blu-Ray, which is perfect since (in between watching NPH host the Parks parade!) I've been meditating on Saving Mr. Banks. Anyway, here's a bit of trivia:
Unlike the film claims, it was actually "Feed the Birds" which convinced P.L. Travers to allow the Poppins film to be a musical. Coincidentally, that was also Walt Disney's favorite song. Until the end of his life, he would instruct the Sherman brothers to "play it" and they would know exactly which tune he meant.
Here's some audio from the actual Travers meetings with the actual Shermans which includes "Feed the Birds." You can hear P.L. Travers humming along.
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