Mary Poppins

For my choice blog, I decided to write about a timeless Disney classic, Mary Poppins.   This timeless classic is about a nanny named Mary Poppins( Julie Andrews) who flies in in her umbrella to take care of the Banks children (Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber.)  An intresting thing is Mary Poppins and Mrs. Banks never actually speak to each other throught the film.  She comes to entertain the children, and they like her very much.  They meet a  magic man named Bert. ( Dick Van Dyke). And they enjoy the wonder of the magicial world. The best part has to be when Bert takes the kids into the sidewalk chalk drawings. There, they sing 'Jolly Holiday.' Another one of my favorite parts is when the kids ride the magic carousel. The sceneries and landscapes of London city are stunning when Mary Poppins is floating on the air on her umbrella.  It's easy to understand why Mary Poppins is such a beloved classic: its simplicity, its magic, its special/visual effects, its beautiful songs, its good morals, its charm, its characters, its classic humor, its combination of live-action and animation and great actors. The way how this combines live-action and animation is very good. Amazing for its time and keeps working out fine. A few years later, I wondered what happened to the little boy who played Michael Banks. I wanted to know what happened to him. I found out a couple days ago that Matthew Garber passed away very young.  Matthew Garber unknowingly contracted hepatitis while in India in 1976, and by the time his father was able to get him home to London several months later, the disease had spread to his pancreas and was untreatable.  He was 21 years old when he died of pancreatis.  Mary Poppins still remains magical today.