![]() ![]() ![]() A film based on Disney's efforts to persuade Travers to sell him the Mary Poppins film rights was released in 2013, Saving Mr. In 2004, a stage musical adaptation of the books and the film opened in the West End it premiered on Broadway in 2006. After years of contact, which included visits to Travers at her home in London, Walt Disney obtained the rights and the film Mary Poppins premiered in 1964. At that time, Walt Disney contacted her about selling to Walt Disney Productions the rights for a film adaptation of Mary Poppins. Travers travelled to New York City during World War II while working for the British Ministry of Information. Travers in 1933 while writing the first of eight Mary Poppins books. Upon emigrating to England at the age of 25, she took the name "Pamela Lyndon Travers" and adopted the pen name P. ![]() Her writing was first published when she was a teenager, and she also worked briefly as a professional Shakespearean actress. Goff was born in Maryborough, Queensland, and grew up in the Australian bush before being sent to boarding school in Sydney. She is best known for the Mary Poppins series of books, which feature the eponymous magical nanny. Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE ( / ˈ t r æ v ər s/ born Helen Lyndon Goff 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-British writer who spent most of her career in England. ![]()
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