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  2. Jane Darwell - Wikipedia

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    Jane Darwell (born Patti Woodard; October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967) was an American actress of stage, film, and television. [1] With appearances in more than 100 major movies spanning half a century, Darwell is perhaps best remembered for her poignant portrayal of the matriarch and leader of the Joad family in the film adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, for which she ...

  3. Mary Poppins (film) - Wikipedia

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    Mary Poppins was released on August 27, 1964, ... Glynis Johns as Winifred Banks, the easily distracted wife of George Banks and the mother of Jane and Michael.

  4. P. L. Travers - Wikipedia

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    As early as 1926, Travers published a short story, "Mary Poppins and the Match Man", which introduced the nanny character of Mary Poppins and Bert the street artist. [32] [33] Published in London in 1934, Mary Poppins, the children's book, was Travers' first literary success. Seven sequels followed, the last in 1988, when Travers was 89.

  5. Glynis Johns, best known for role in ‘Mary Poppins’ as Mrs ...

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    Glynis Johns, the British actor better known to audiences as the pro-suffrage mother in “Mary Poppins,” has died. She was 100. The actor’s manager of 25 years, Mitch Clem, confirmed in a ...

  6. Glynis Johns, Who Played Mrs. Banks in ‘Mary Poppins,’ Dies ...

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    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 ...

  7. Glynis Johns - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. Mary Poppins (book series) - Wikipedia

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    Mary Poppins is a series of eight children's books written by Australian-British writer P. L. Travers and published ... Mary's uncle, presumably her mother's brother ...

  9. Walt Disney's 'Mary Poppins' captured America — but behind ...

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    "Mary Poppins," before she was a Disney franchise, had been a series of very popular children's books by P.L. Travers. Kids had been reading about her since 1934.