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Mary Poppins (1964) is considered Walt Disney's crowning live-action achievement, and is the only one of his films to earn a Best Picture nomination during his lifetime. [74] In the film, Johns plays Winifred Banks, the wife of George Banks, mother of Jane and Michael, and member of Emmeline Pankhurst 's "Votes for Women" suffrage movement, to ...
Dotrice (left) with Matthew Garber in ‘’Mary Poppins’’ (1964) Film historian Leonard Maltin said Dotrice "won over everyone" with her performance in The Three Lives of Thomasina, [3] and she was signed to play Jane Banks (along with once and future co-star Matthew Garber as her brother, Michael Banks) in Mary Poppins (1964).
David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson (7 May 1917 – 24 June 2000) was an English stage, film and television actor, singer and comedian. Having been described as both a leading man and a character actor, he is primarily remembered for his roles with The Walt Disney Company as authoritarian father figure George Banks in Mary Poppins, fraudulent magician Professor Emelius Browne in Bedknobs and ...
British actor was best known for playing the ‘Sister Suffragette’-singing Mrs Banks in Disney film Glynis Johns, Mary Poppins star and ‘Send in the Clowns’ singer, dies aged 100 Skip to ...
Garber as Michael Banks with Karen Dotrice in Mary Poppins (1964). A friend of the Garber family, Karen Dotrice's father, Shakespearean actor Roy Dotrice, called Garber to the attention of Disney Casting, where his use of "artful dodges, like squinting, screwing up his nose, and brushing his hair back with one hand" led to his screen debut at age seven in Disney's The Three Lives of Thomasina ...
English actor Glynis Johns, who played the daffy suffragette mother Mrs. Banks in the classic film “Mary Poppins,” died Thursday at an assisted living home in Los Angeles, her manager Mitch ...
Generations of viewers will likely recall seeing Johns take on Mrs. Banks, a sash-wearing suffragette mother, in the Disney classic “Mary Poppins.” The film starred famed Hollywood actors ...
English actress Emily Blunt began her career as a teenager at the West End theatre, appearing alongside Judi Dench in a production of The Royal Family in 2001. [1] Her first screen appearance was in the television film Boudica (2003), and she made her film debut with the lead role of a teenager exploring her homosexuality in Paweł Pawlikowski ...