Editing Mary Poppins (film) (section)

=== Casting ===
In March 1961, Disney announced that it might cast [[Hayley Mills]] and [[Mary Martin]] in the film.<ref>{{cite news|last=Weiler|first=A. H.|title=View from a Local Vantage Point: On the Harvey, Disney Production Schedule|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/03/05/archives/view-from-a-local-vantage-point-on-the-harvey-disney-production.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 5, 1961|page=X7|access-date=December 2, 2020|archive-date=May 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521081048/https://www.nytimes.com/1961/03/05/archives/view-from-a-local-vantage-point-on-the-harvey-disney-production.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Julie Harris]], [[Angela Lansbury]], [[Bette Davis]], [[Judy Garland]], [[Barbara Eden]], [[Elizabeth Taylor]], [[Jayne Mansfield]], [[Natalie Wood]] and [[Elizabeth Montgomery]] were considered for the role of Mary Poppins.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Conradt|first=Stacy|url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/58615/18-supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-facts-about-mary-poppins|title=18 Supercalifragilistic Facts About Mary Poppins|date=October 30, 2015|website=[[Mental Floss]]}}</ref> Walt Disney originally wanted [[Elvis Presley]] for the role of Bert, but [[Col. Tom Parker]] said no when he learned that Presley wouldn't receive top billing. Also considered for Bert were [[Bert Convy]], [[Sean Connery]], [[Bob Denver]], [[Adam West]], [[Andy Williams]], [[Cary Grant]], [[Jamie Farr]] and [[Andy Griffith]]. Before [[Ed Wynn]] was cast, [[Ray Bolger]], [[Jack Haley]], [[Bert Lahr]], [[George Burns]], [[Bob Hope]], [[Jack Albertson]], [[Jim Backus]], [[Alan Hale Jr.]], [[Kirk Douglas]] and [[Lorne Greene]] were considered for the role of Uncle Albert. 

[[Julie Andrews]], who was making her feature film acting debut after a successful stage career, was given the prime role of Mary Poppins soon after she was passed over by [[Jack L. Warner]] and replaced with [[Audrey Hepburn]] for the role of [[Eliza Doolittle]] in his [[My Fair Lady (film)|screen adaptation]] of ''[[My Fair Lady]]'', even though Andrews originated the role on Broadway.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/julie-andrews/|title=Julie Andrews {{!}} The Stars {{!}} Broadway: The American Musical|publisher=PBS|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009121917/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/julie-andrews/|archive-date=October 9, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Hischak |first=Thomas |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000hisc/page/516/mode/2up |title=The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television |location=New York |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2008 |page=517 |isbn=978-0-19-533533-0 |url-access=registration}}</ref> When Disney approached Andrews about playing Poppins, she was three months pregnant. Disney assured her that they were willing to postpone filming until she had given birth so that she could take the part.<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QhXfKMdhWI|title=Julie Andrews Recalls Making 'Mary Poppins'|work=[[Anderson Live]]|date=October 16, 2012|via=[[YouTube]]|access-date=February 14, 2015|archive-date=February 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210220091511/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QhXfKMdhWI%2C|url-status=live}}</ref> Disney considered actor [[Stanley Holloway]] for the role of Admiral Boom, but it went to Reginald Owen, due to Holloway's commitment to ''My Fair Lady''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lawson|first=Valerie|title=Mary Poppins She Wrote: The Extraordinary Life of Australian Writer P.L. Travers|isbn=978-0733626371|year=2010|page=214|location=Sydney|publisher=[[Hachette Australia]]}}</ref>

Andrews also provided the voice in two other sections of the film: During "[[A Spoonful of Sugar]]", she provided the whistling harmony for the robin, and she was also one of the [[Pearly Kings and Queens|Pearly]] singers during "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". [[David Tomlinson]], besides playing Mr. Banks, provided the voices of Mary's talking umbrella, Admiral Boom's first mate, and numerous other voice-over parts. During the "Jolly Holiday" sequence, the three singing Cockney geese were all voiced by [[Marni Nixon]], who regularly sang for actresses with substandard singing voices. (Nixon later provided the singing voice for Hepburn in ''My Fair Lady,'' and played one of Andrews' fellow nuns in ''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]''.) Andrews later beat Hepburn for the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical|Best Actress Award]] at the [[Golden Globes]] for their respective roles. Andrews also won the [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] for Best Actress for her role (Hepburn was not nominated for it). Richard Sherman, one of the songwriters, also voiced a penguin, and one of the Pearlies.<ref>DVD extra</ref> Robert Sherman provided the speaking voice of Jane Darwell because Darwell's voice was too soft to be heard in the soundtrack. He is heard saying the only line: "Feed the birds, tuppence a bag."<ref>Source: Commentary on Mary Poppins on DVD</ref>

Disney cast [[Dick Van Dyke]] in the main supporting role of Bert after seeing his work on ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]''. After winning the role, Van Dyke lobbied to also play the senior Mr. Dawes. Disney felt he was too young for the part, but Van Dyke won him over after a screen test.<ref>{{cite web|last=Elisberg|first=Robert J.|title=Super-Cali-Fragilistic-Expial-Atrocious|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/super-cali-fragilistic-ex_b_440054.html|website=[[The Huffington Post]]|date=March 30, 2010|access-date=March 26, 2015|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402202923/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/super-cali-fragilistic-ex_b_440054.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Van Dyke had trouble with Bert's Cockney accent. English character actor [[J. Pat O'Malley]] provided some coaching;<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/10/julie-andrews-home-work-memoir-mary-poppins|title=Julie Andrews Remembers Becoming Mary Poppins|date=October 7, 2019|magazine=Vanity Fair}}</ref> but although Van Dyke is fondly remembered for the film, his [[English-language accents in film#Cockney|attempt at a Cockney accent]] is considered one of the poorer accents in film history.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7509572.stm|title=How not to do an American accent|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=July 21, 2008|access-date=February 14, 2015|archive-date=September 21, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921073046/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7509572.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> (It was #2 in a 2003 poll by ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' magazine of the worst film accents.<ref>{{cite news | title=Connery 'has worst film accent' | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3032052.stm | publisher=BBC News | date=June 30, 2003 | access-date=July 6, 2008 | archive-date=August 24, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824041828/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3032052.stm | url-status=live}}</ref>) Van Dyke claimed that O'Malley "didn't do an accent any better than I did".<ref name="NPR Wait Wait">{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130739954|title=Dick Van Dyke Plays Not My Job|work=[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!]]|date=October 23, 2010|access-date=April 3, 2018|archive-date=April 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180417022932/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130739954|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2017, Van Dyke received an award for television excellence from the [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]] (BAFTA), at which time he said, "I appreciate this opportunity to apologise to the members of BAFTA for inflicting on them the most atrocious cockney accent in the history of cinema." A chief executive of BAFTA responded, "We look forward to his acceptance speech in whatever accent he chooses on the night. We have no doubt it will be '[[supercalifragilisticexpialidocious]]'."<ref name="apology">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jul/21/dick-van-dyke-sorry-for-cockney-accent-mary-poppins-disney|title=Dick Van Dyke sorry for 'atrocious cockney accent' in Mary Poppins|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|last=Khomami|first=Nadia|date=July 21, 2017|access-date=January 1, 2019|archive-date=January 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102201727/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jul/21/dick-van-dyke-sorry-for-cockney-accent-mary-poppins-disney|url-status=live}}</ref>