![]() ![]() Travers has been described as an eccentric, unreliable about her own past and with an oddball interest in mysticism and the occult (for many years she was a follower of the spiritual teacher George Gurdjieff). She made a lot of money from the movie, however, and went on to write four more Mary Poppins books. ![]() ![]() The arrangement was famously acrimonious, and Travers made no secret that she hated the popular 1964 film (starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke). Travers refused for more than fifteen years, finally agreeing to $100,000 and five percent of the gross, with a hand in script approval. By the mid-1940s, Walt Disney was calling, trying to buy the movie rights. Mary Poppins, the tale of a stern and magical nanny, was published in 1934 and was enough of a favorite that it prompted an immediate sequel, Mary Poppins Comes Back (1935). She went to England in 1924, where she published travel articles and poems and tracked down famous Irish poets who helped her career, including W.B. Born Helen Lyndon Goff in Australia, she changed her name to Pamela Lyndon Travers as an aspiring actress. Travers was the author of Mary Poppins and the seven sequels that appeared between 19. ![]()
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