Mary Poppins: Julie Andrews reveals she nearly died filming iconic umbrella scene 'There was an awful silence for a minute and I did let fly with a few Anglo-Saxon four-letter words, I have to admit' ...

Julie Andrews won an Oscar for her role in Mary Poppins, the wholesome family classic where she played a nanny with magical powers.At first, she wasn’t sure she’d get the job because she was ...

Julie Andrews shares a ... she was almost killed while filming the iconic scenes for Disney’s 1964 hit “Mary Poppins.” ... around up there for the longest time with the umbrella.

While we’re gutted we won’t see Andrews pop up in Mary Poppins returns, we can’t wait to see Dick Van Dyke’s cameo in the film — which arrives by way of umbrella — on Christmas 2018 ...

Andrews explained that to pull off that flying sequence, she actually performed the stunt herself while wearing a painful harness. But the supposedly load-bearing wires she was attached to high ...

The story of how Walt Disney coaxed P.L. Travers, the creator of “Mary Poppins” and a soul as tough as old boots, into letting him turn her flying nanny into the star of a Disney movie … ...

“Mary Poppins” is being set for a reboot with Emily Blunt taking on the leading role, but Andrews won’t be involved with that filming. Andrews will star in a new Netflix series, “Julie’s ...

Mary Poppins is practically perfect in every way – but it wasn’t her perfection that drew Julie Andrews to the role. She says it was the vaudevillian feel of the music.

Julie Andrews makes a cameo in a holiday movie that is opening this weekend, but it’s not the one you expect. Instead of soaring down on an umbrella in Disney’s “Mary Poppins Returns ...

Dame Julie Andrews may have looked practically perfect in every way as she descended in that iconic Mary Poppins umbrella scene, but the actress has just admitted she almost died filming it.