It’s been 60 years since Disney’s traditional musical Mary Poppins hit theaters, and Dick Van Dyke can fondly look again on the recollections from filming one of many Oscar-winning traditional.
On the Wednesday, June 26 episode of The Hollywood Reporter‘s “Awards Chatter” podcast, Van Dyke, 98, reminisced about working with Julie Andrews, who appeared “like she had executed a complete lot of films,” regardless of it being her first characteristic movie after her early successes onstage on the West Finish and Broadway.
In Mary Poppins, Van Dyke performed chimney sweep Bert (with a fast cameo as financial institution proprietor Mr. Dawes Sr.), reverse Andrews’ titular function as a magical nanny.
“She was cool as a cucumber,” Van Dyke mentioned.
Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews Paul Morigi/Getty Photographs; Amy Sussman/WireImage
”I’m telling you what I had doing the recording. She not solely is a soprano, she sang only a hair on high of the observe,” he added of recording the film’s well-known soundtrack.
A star of each stage and display, Dick Van Dyke has endeared himself to generations of followers. Van Dyke — who has 4 Emmys, one Grammy and a Tony Award to his identify — married Arlene Silver in 2012. Throughout a February 2023 interview with Yahoo! Music, the Mary Poppins star joked that “having a […]
The album produced two singles, “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” and “A Spoonful of Sugar,” in addition to different songs the movie is understood for, like “Chim Chim Cher-ee” and “Let’s Go Fly a Kite.”
“[She is] simply that little bit sharp, and I sing flat,” Van Dyke mentioned. “I’m truly a bass, however I needed to sing.”
He added, “It turned out alright, and he or she was so affected person with me.”
Mary Poppins earned common acclaim, and was nominated for Finest Image on the 1965 Academy Awards. Although it misplaced to My Honest Girl, Andrews, 88, gained Finest Actress and the movie gained in 4 different classes, together with Finest Tune (“Chim Chim Cher-ee”).
Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews, Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber in “Mary Poppins” Disney/Cowl Photographs
In 2006, the film positioned No. 6 on the American Movie Institute’s biggest film musicals record.
Julie Andrews has been stealing viewers’ hearts for many years. Born Julia Elizabeth Wells, the actress got here from humble beginnings earlier than scoring her large break on Broadway in September 1954, simply earlier than her nineteenth birthday. Andrews’ efficiency of Polly Browne in The Boy Good friend caught the eye of each viewers members and business consultants, kickstarting her […]
Van Dyke’s feedback got here after Andrews lauded working with him throughout CBS’ two-hour Dick Van Dyke 98 Years of Magic particular final December.
“I’d by no means made a film earlier than, and I’d given beginning to my beautiful daughter Emma practically six weeks earlier, and I shortly realized that I had higher pull my socks up and get in form,” she mentioned. “I discovered it fairly daunting, I can let you know. Dick couldn’t have been kinder, extra genuinely candy and useful. I prefer to assume that we did bond immediately.”
Not like Andrews, Van Dyke was already a longtime actor once they filmed Mary Poppins. He made his TV debut in 1957 in two episodes of The Phil Silvers Present and broke out in his Tony Award-winning efficiency in Bye Bye Birdie (1960).
Andrews follows up her Mary Poppins efficiency with one other iconic nanny function, successful the Golden Globe for Finest Actress – Movement Image Comedy or Musical for enjoying Maria Von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965).
