DISNEY - MARY POPPINS(1964)
The top Disney musical!! This is fun fun fun! Great
music, great actors (not many better than Julie and Dick!)
and the mesh of animation with live action is seamless! A
From a reviewer at Amazon.com
There is only one word that comes close to accurately
describing the enchanting Mary Poppins, and that term
was coined by the movie itself: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Even at 2 hours and 20 minutes, Disney's pioneering mixture
of live action and animation(based on the books by P.L. Travers)
still holds kids spellbound. Julie Andrews won an Oscar as the
world's most magically idealized nanny ("practically perfect in
every way," and complete with lighter-than-air umbrella), and
Dick Van Dyke is her clownishly charming beau, Bert the chimney
sweep. The songs are also terrific, ranging from bright and cheery
("A Spoonful of Sugar") to dark and cheery (the Oscar-winning
"Chim Chim Cher-ee") to touchingly melancholy ("Feed the Birds").
Many consider Mary Poppins to be the crowning achievement
of Walt Disney's career--and it was the only one of his features
to be nominated for a best picture Academy Award until Beauty
and the Beast in 1991. --Jim Emerson