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    name "Pamela Lyndon Travers" and adopted the pen name P. L. Travers in 1933 while writing the first of eight Mary Poppins books. Travers travelled to New...
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  • her permission. Travers confronts Disney over this and returns home without signing the agreement. Disney learns that "P. L. Travers" is a pen name, taken...
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  • He first attempted to purchase the film rights from P. L. Travers as early as 1938, but Travers repeatedly refused; she did not believe a film version...
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    Mary Poppins is a fictional character and the eponymous protagonist of P. L. Travers' books of the same name along with all of their adaptations. A magical...
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    received acclaim and several award nominations for her portrayal of author PL. Travers in Saving Mr. Banks. Other notable film and television credits include...
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    series of eight children's books written by Australian-British writer P. L. Travers and published over the period 1934 to 1988. Mary Shepard was the illustrator...
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    she remembered. "I didn't know P. L. Travers' history" with Disney and his many years spent trying to convince Travers to let him tell the Poppins story...
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  • and John DeLuca. Loosely based on the book series Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers, the film is a sequel to the 1964 film Mary Poppins, and stars Emily...
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  • Travers is an English and Irish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Allan Travers (1892–1968), Major League Baseball pitcher Ben Travers...
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  • Ruby Films' Alison Owen to work on a project about Mary Poppins author P. L. Travers and her relationship with Walt Disney for BBC Films, based on an earlier...
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