Mary Poppins (movie)

Petro Vlahos dies at 96; advanced blue-screen technology for film

2013-02-19 17:05:00

In the 1950s, special-effects pioneer Petro Vlahos laid the groundwork that made a modern movie genre possible — the blockbuster. He did it by vastly improving a composite-image process commonly known as the "blue-screen effect" for the 1959 epic...

Warren Beatty and Annette Bening list Beverly Crest home

2012-07-22 00:00:00

Whether it's as sellers or landlords, actor-director Warren Beatty and his wife, actress Annette Bening, are up for new roles. They have listed their ivy-clad home in Beverly Crest for $6.995 million. The house, built in 1992, had been for rent last year...

Singer-actress Julie Andrews sells Brentwood home

2012-06-18 13:06:00

Singer and actress Julie Andrews has sold her house in Brentwood for $2.705 million — more than she was asking. Andrews owned the traditional-style home with her late husband, director and screenwriter Blake Edwards. Less than a month after...

Julie Andrews' Brentwood house isn't going for a song

2012-05-13 00:00:00

Singer and actress Julie Andrews has listed the Brentwood house she owned with her late husband, director and screenwriter Blake Edwards, for $2.649 million. Less than a month after coming on the market, the tidy white home with gray shutters is already...

Julie Andrews' supercalifragilistic Brentwood home for sale

2012-04-11 13:24:00

Singer and actress Julie Andrews has listed the Brentwood house she owned with her late husband, director and screenwriter Blake Edwards, for $2.649 million. The traditional-style single-story house features an open plan family room and living room...

Robert Sherman dies at 86; songwriter best known for 'Mary Poppins'

2012-03-07 00:00:00

At the Academy Awards ceremony in 1965, Robert and Richard Sherman already had accepted their Oscar for best score for "Mary Poppins" when they returned to the stage to pick up another statuette for best song, "Chim Chim Cher-ee." Having already...

Julie Andrews on princesses, Disney and a new 'Mary Poppins' film

2012-04-19 16:39:11

Michael S. Rosenfeld dies at 75; was founding partner of Creative Artists Agency

2010-03-30 00:00:00

Michael S. Rosenfeld, a talent agent and producer who was one of the founding partners of Creative Artists Agency, has died. He was 75. Rosenfeld died Thursday of respiratory failure at Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center after a long illness, the agency...

A major Disney museum in Glendale? It may be the future for the company's past

2010-06-26 16:33:55

A very familiar face returns to 'Mary Poppins'

2010-01-23 16:32:42

Oscars quiz: Which star did not win best actress for her film debut?

2010-02-07 16:33:11

Oscars have always welcomed the world

2010-03-10 16:33:19

Think a passel of Mary Poppinses taking on Voldemort at the Olympics opening ceremony was shocking? How about Mary Poppins -- and Maria von Trapp -- "showing her boobies" on film? That's what Julie Andrews did for hubby Blake Edwards in 'S.O.B.,' playing off her goody-goody image.

2012-08-23 15:33:30

and contributed songs and scores to many other films. The brothers wrote irresistibly upbeat songs that spoke to everyday people. "You can't help but smile when you sing or hum a Sherman brothers song," film critic Leonard Maltin said.

2012-03-07 10:37:47

Julie Andrews ' iconic character Maria teaches the seven Von Trapp children how to sing. Fresh of the heels of her "Mary Poppins" success, Andrews' performance in "The Sound of Music" garnered another lead actress Oscar nomination, and the movie remains one of the highest-grossing films of all time.

2011-04-13 17:14:30