In which 1964 Disney musical does Julie Andrews play a magical nanny?

The 1964 Disney musical in which Julie Andrews plays a magical nanny is Mary Poppins. Andrews stars as the mysterious nanny who arrives at the Banks family home in Edwardian London and helps restore warmth and imagination to the household.

Directed by Robert Stevenson, the film combines live action with animation and is based on P. L. Travers’s Mary Poppins books. Mary first appears floating down with an umbrella after the children’s rejected nanny advertisement is carried into the sky. Her supernatural abilities are presented with calm confidence: she can tidy a nursery with a snap, enter a chalk drawing, and turn ordinary outings into fantastic adventures.

The Sherman Brothers wrote the songs, including “A Spoonful of Sugar,” “Jolly Holiday,” “Feed the Birds,” and the Oscar-winning “Chim Chim Cher-ee.” Mary Poppins was Julie Andrews’s feature-film debut and earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress. It received 13 Oscar nominations, won five, and became Disney’s highest-grossing film at the time of its release.