Sometime around nineteen forty, a little girl, Diane Disney, tells her daddy, the famous Walt Disney, that he ought to make a movie out of MARY POPPINS, the book she is reading and so delighting in. Walt-- being a man of action, with honed persuasiveness- says to her, "I PROMISE!" And thus begins the grand effort of getting the author, P.L. Travers, to sign over her rights so Walt can in fact produce a movie of MARY POPPINS with that Walt Disney world class appeal. ...
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