"And then it occurred to me that this had already been done, though unconsciously and without intent. "I thought to myself, 'Someday, in spite of her, I shall commit the disrespectful vulgarity of putting Aunt Sass in a book,'" she later wrote.
Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins Photo: Getty Images After her beloved banker father Travers Goff (who inspired her later pseudonym) fell victim to alcoholism and died when she was just seven years old, Travers' great-aunt Ellie (also known as Aunt Sass) stepped in to support her mother Margaret Goff, as well as Travers' sisters. (This particular catchphrase was immortalized due in large part to the fact Travers also insisted that all of their meetings be recorded.) Travers' aunt inspired the character of Mary Poppinsįor Travers (born Helen Lyndon Goff), her extreme investment in the story of Mary Poppins was rooted in dark, painful personal experience.
She spent several weeks at Disney's Burbank, California studio, where she became notorious for the “No No No” mantra she constantly barked at Disney's creative team. Travers," as she demanded that she be called) to act as a consultant on the film. Disney also agreed to allow Travers (or "Mrs. The royalties from her Mary Poppins series had begun to dwindle by the '60s, and Disney reportedly offered to pay her $100,000 (more than $800,000 by today's standards), plus five percent of the movie's multi-million-dollar gross earnings. Her eventual change of heart, it turned out, was motivated less by Disney's apparent charm, but more so by money. What ensued was nearly two decades of Disney himself personally appealing to Travers before she finally relented in 1961. The holdup: notoriously prickly Travers was staunchly against selling the screen rights, particularly to a studio she feared would overly sentimentalize her work. What the famed animator didn't know at the time, however, is that it would take much longer to make the film than it took audiences to learn how to spell "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." Disney offered Travers a big payday for her bookīy the time Julie Andrews' titular heaven-sent nanny quite literally descended from the clouds into the Banks family's Cherry Tree Lane home - and into theaters across America - in August 1964, about 20 years had passed since Disney made that promise to his young daughter. Travers' Mary Poppins, into a big-screen masterpiece. In the early 1940s, Walt Disney made his daughter Diane a promise: he would adapt her favorite 1934 children's book, British author P.L.
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