Dynamic Dames by Sloan De Forest

Author:Sloan De Forest
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Running Press
Published: 2019-07-01T16:00:00+00:00

“I should like to make one thing quite clear.… I never explain anything.”

—“MARY POPPINS”

Nobody messes with Poppins. Much like Travers, she’s a prickly perfectionist and something of a control freak. Yet she brings enchantment to the most mundane chores, making every day a jolly holiday for her steady date Bert (Dick Van Dyke). Floating down from a cloud to transform the Bankses’ lives, she is practically an all-powerful superhuman—almost a goddess. Though Disney and Travers never quite saw eye to eye, the two joined forces to create an unforgettable movie character, a proper British firebrand who shifts the power structure in a male-dominated household.

She not only manipulates George into taking the children to the bank (and makes him believe he thought of it himself as “just the medicine they need for all this slipshod, sugary female thinking they get around here all day”), but she also plants the seeds of revolt in Michael’s head with her song “Feed the Birds,” very nearly inciting anarchy! Finally, when his world is turned upside down by Mary, George learns that being a father is not about bossing his family around, but about being a friend to them.

In the last scene, Mrs. Banks lets her feminist flag fly, attaching a “Votes for Women” banner to the tail of a kite. This serves a dual purpose, signaling that she will be a more attentive mother and showing the world that she supports women’s rights. “One of the things that Poppins is about—and nobody really realizes it—is women’s liberation,” Robert Sherman has said. “Though Mrs. Banks may not be the perfect women’s libber, Mary Poppins certainly was. She’s both very feminine, and very much in control at the same time.”

Since the 1964 film, Mary has become a cultural icon, having been revamped as a stage musical in 2004 and popping back into movie theaters (with Emily Blunt in the title role) in 2018’s Mary Poppins Returns. The behind-the-scenes story of Disney and Travers was illuminated in the 2013 movie Saving Mr. Banks.

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