‘Mary Poppins,’ and a Nanny’s Shameful Flirting With Blackface Julie Andrews’s soot-covered face in the 1964 film “Mary Poppins” stems from racial caricatures in books. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/movies/mary-poppins-returns-blackface.html Image Julie Andrews’s soot-covered face in the 1964 film “Mary Poppins” stems from racial caricatures in books. By Daniel Pollack-Pelzner Jan. 28, 2019 “Mary Poppins Returns,” which picked up four Oscar nominations last week, is an enjoyably derivative film that seeks to inspire our nostalgia for the innocent fantasies of childhood, as well as the jolly holidays that the first “Mary Poppins” film conjured for many adult viewers. Part of the new film’s nostalgia, however, is bound up in a blackface performance tradition that persists throughout the Mary Poppins canon, from P. L. Travers’s books to Disney’s 1964 adaptation, with disturbing echoes in the studio’s newest take on the material, “Mary Poppins Returns.” One of the more indelible images from the 1964 film is of Mary Poppins blacking up. When the magical nanny (played by Julie Andrews) accompanies her young charges, Michael and Jane Banks, up their chimney, her face gets covered in soot, but instead of wiping it off, she gamely powders her nose and cheeks even blacker. Then she leads the children on a dancing exploration of London rooftops with Dick Van Dyke’s sooty chimney sweep, Bert.
Mental disorder doesn't even begin to describe the new fascist left. Just when you think they have reached the limit if stupidity they set a new mark. Racist sweaters. https://www.npr.org/2019/02/07/6923...-removes-sweater-following-blackface-backlash