August 27, 1964: Walt Disney's film version of Mary Poppins premieres. It becomes one of the most popular Disney films of all time, and turns Julie Andrews from a Broadway star to a Hollywood star.
Born in a pre-independence Australia in 1899, Helen Lyndon Goff moved to England in 1923, took the name Pamela Lyndon Travers, and published Mary Poppins under the name P.L. Travers in 1934. She kept writing them, eventually taking the series to 8 in 1988, before her death in 1996.
Walt Disney had long wanted to make a film of the original book the magical nanny in 1910 London, and Travers had long resisted. Finally, in 1961, after giving her consultant rights on the film, she relented. It took until 1964 to release the mostly live-action, but partly animated, film.
It was re-released in 1973, and my parents went to see it at the Turnpike Theater Drive-In in East Brunswick. Unfortunately, they took me with them. This is not a movie to take a 3-year-old to.
The 2013 film Saving Mr. Banks depicted the making of the 1964 film. Disney's sequel to the 1964 film, Mary Poppins Returns, was released in 2018, and starred Emily Blunt as Poppins.
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August 27, 1964 was a Thursday. These 4 baseball games were played:
* The Detroit Tigers beat the Boston Red Sox, 5-4 at Fenway Park in Boston. Al Kaline went 0-for-2 with 2 walks. Carl Yastrzemski went 1-for-4 with an RBI.
* The Minnesota Twins beat the Chicago White Sox, 6-2 at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Harmon Killebrew went 0-for-4.
* The Milwaukee Braves beat the San Francisco Giants, 13-0 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Rico Carty and Lee Maye hit home runs. Hank Aaron did not hit a home run, but went 3-for-4 with 2 RBIs. And 2nd baseman Woody Woodward, later to become one of baseball's top executives, went 2-for-4 with 4 RBIs.
Hank Fischer went the distance on the shutout, allowing 3 hits. Willie Mays didn't get any of them. Nor did Willie McCovey. Nor did Orlando Cepeda. Hal Lanier got 2, and Jesús Alou got the other. In contrast, Giants starter Bobby Bolin didn't get out of the 1st inning.
* And the Los Angeles Angels beat the Kansas City Athletics, 7-1 at Kansas City Municipal Stadium.
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