Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the Daffy Duck Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1952 The Super Snooper, directed by Robert McKimson.
The shapely lady duck here may well have helped inspire future animated vamp Jessica Rabbit in 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Before the start of our feature presentation, the staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to share with you these trailers of movies we like to see, directed by Quentin Tarrantino.
I'm hoping Quentin isn't really serious about retiring after his next movie.
We've picked another entry from the excellent reference book, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider. Today's film is the 1964 Disney musical comedy, Mary Poppins , directed by Robert Stevenson, and starring Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, and Glynis Johns. The film is based on the series of novels written by PL Travers. Walt Disney worked on and off for over 20 years to secure the rights to the story. Travers was reluctant to have a film made of her story because she did not believe a film version of her books would do justice to her creation. The film opened to both critical acclaim and commercial success. It became the highest-grossing film of 1964 and, at the time of its release, was Disney's highest-grossing film ever.
Mary Poppins was a triumph at the 1965 Oscars, winning five awards, including the Best Actress Award for Julie Andrews, in her film acting debut. The film was nominated for a total of 13 awards, making it the highest number of nominations for any Disney film. The music by the Sherman brothers was a career highlight for the duo, with songs such as Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and A Spoonful of Sugar entering popular culture as classics. The unique combination of live action and animation was a stunning effect in 1964, though Travers is said to have despised it. So please join us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and enjoy turning back the clock by watching, Mary Poppins.
Walt Disney cast Julie Andrews for the lead after seeing her in Camelot on Broadway. When she mentioned she was pregnant, he offered to wait until she had her baby to start filming and offered her then-husband, Tony Walton, the job of designing costumes and some sets for this movie. Disney also gave the couple a personally escorted tour of Disneyland and the studio to help them make up their minds. Disney liked Andrews in Camelot so much that after he saw her performance he had the animators of One Hundred and One Dalmatians draw the character of Anita to resemble her.
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