10 Movies That Will Have You Singing And Dancing

Mary Poppins (1964)

Of all the truly classic movie musicals, Mary Poppins is perhaps the most toe-tapping. Directed by Robert Stevenson from a screenplay by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, the film is loosely based on a book series by P.L. Travers about a magical English nanny. Produced by Walt Disney with a mixture of animation and live-action, the making of the film was dramatized in Saving Mr Banks, starring Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson.

But it is Julie Andrews that breathes life into the titular character of Mary Poppins, in a performance that won her a Best Actress Academy Award. Emanating an almost unsurpassable warmth and love, she anchors a fantasy film filled with humour, heart, memorable tunes, and a brilliant supporting turn from Dick Van Dyke.

From the infectious “Step In Time,” the marvellous “Sister Suffragette,” to the joyous “Let’s Go Fly A Kite” – a spoonful of sugar is not required for this particular brand of medicine. It’s all rather….supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.