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Originally posted by DGMarie
Can anyone confirm that Let's Go Fly a Kite from Mary Poppins was REALLY written for Disney's daughter? I ask bec I did a little research on this. Richard Rodgers (of Rodgers and Hammerstein fame) wrote the tune in 1964 for the movie, when Walt's daughter Diane would have been 30 years old and adopted daughter Sharon would have been 27.
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I tried to find somthing to better confirm this, and it might just be a rumor, but I did find a history about Mary Poppins on the Disney website (
http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/walt...rypoppins.html) where it states that:
"Actually, Walt first became interested in turning "Mary Poppins" into a film in the mid-1940s, when his daughters were reading P.L. Travers' books about the mystical nanny. "
So, if his daughters introduced him to the book, then it kind of makes sense that it was more than a conincidence. I'd be interested to see something more concrete, but all I can find is stuff on Theta chapter websites.