Q 01/05

Mary Poppins (1964) was the feature-film debut of which actress?

A) Doris Day

B) Debbie Reynolds

C) Shirley MacLaine

D) Julie Andrews

Answer · why

D) Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews was pregnant when Walt Disney offered her the part, so he promised to wait for her; she arrived in Hollywood with a three-month-old daug...

Q 02/05

Who wrote the songs for the 1964 film Mary Poppins?

A) Lerner and Loewe

B) Alan Menken and Howard Ashman

C) The Sherman Brothers

D) Rodgers and Hammerstein

Answer · why

C) The Sherman Brothers

The Sherman Brothers' 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' drew a lawsuit from the writers of a 1949 song with a near-identical title; Disney won by s...

Q 03/05

Mary Poppins director Robert Stevenson reunited with its songwriters for which 1971 Disney musical?

A) The Happiest Millionaire

B) Bedknobs and Broomsticks

C) The Sword in the Stone

D) Pete's Dragon

Answer · why

B) Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Bedknobs and Broomsticks again mixed live actors with cartoon animals, and one of its songs, 'The Beautiful Briny', had been written for Mary Poppins ...

Q 04/05

The 1964 film was based mainly on which of the Mary Poppins books?

A) The third novel

B) The fourth novel

C) The first novel

D) The second novel

Answer · why

C) The first novel

The first novel gives Bert only a small part as a match seller; the film merged him with the books' chimney sweep and built him into a leading role.

Q 05/05

When P. L. Travers sold Disney the Mary Poppins rights, what could she still approve?

A) Casting

B) Songs

C) Script

D) Director

Answer · why

C) Script

Script approval: Travers had her meetings with the writers taped and objected to much of what they wrote, but Walt Disney held final cut and overruled...