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The stories became the basis for the 1971 Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks. During her latter years Norton lived with her second husband in the village of Hartland in Devon. She died of a stroke in Bideford, Devon, England, on 29 August 1992.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a 1971 American musical fantasy film directed by Robert Stevenson and songs written by the Sherman Brothers. It was produced by Bill Walsh for Walt Disney Productions. It is based upon the books The Magic Bedknob (1943) and Bonfires and Broomsticks (1947) by English children's author Mary Norton.
Aug 25, 2024 · Mary Norton (born Dec. 10, 1903, London, Eng.—died Aug. 29, 1992, Hartland, Devon) was a British children’s writer most famous for her series on the Borrowers, a resourceful race of beings only 6 inches (15 cm) tall, who secretly share houses with humans and “borrow” what they need from them.
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Her first book was The Magic Bed Knob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons published in 1943, which, together with the sequel Bonfires and Broomsticks, became the basis for the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
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- The Movie Was Based on Two Books by Mary Norton.
- Disney Wanted Julie Andrews For The Lead role.
- The Rights to Bedknobs and Broomsticks Were Purchased Before Mary Poppins.
- One of The Film's Songs Was Written For Mary Poppins.
- Walt Disney Fell Asleep During The Sherman Brothers’ Song Presentation.
- Despite His Apparent Disinterest, Disney Liked The Songs A lot.
- Angela Lansbury refers to It as “Acting by The Numbers.”
- Like Eglantine Price, Lansbury Was A WWII Evacuee.
- The Movie Was Originally Much longer.
- There’S A Hidden Mickey in The Movie.
Rather than adapting a single book for the film, Disney took elements from two novels by Mary Norton: The Magic Bed-Knob and Bonfires and Broomsticks.
Because Mary Poppins had been a great success for Disney, they tried to get lightning to strike twice by asking Julie Andrews to star in Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Like Mary Poppins, Bedknobs featured magic, music, animated segments, and even the same director (Robert Stevenson) and co-star (David Tomlinson, Mr. Banks from Mary Poppins). Afraid of b...
Thanks to the movie Saving Mr. Banks, it’s now fairly well known that Walt Disney had a tough time negotiating movie rights with Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers. But he wasn’t too worried: He told the Sherman Brothers not to worry about not securing the rights to Mary Poppins because he would just use their songs in Bedknobs and Broomsticksinstead...
Walt ended up being right about the songs being suitable for either movie: The Sherman Brothers actually repurposed one of their discarded songs from Mary Poppins for Bedknobs and Broomsticks. “The Beautiful Briny” would have been performed while Mary and the children sailed off in an adventure in Admiral Boom’s ship house.
When the famous songwriting duo originally pitched some of their tunes to the team early on, Walt was, well, not terribly engaged. Accordingto Richard Sherman, “We were so carried away telling our story and singing loud, 'Eglantine, Eglantine, oh how you shine!,' showing how the phony guy, who finds this real witch who’s capable of doing magic, is ...
One of his favorites was “Substitutiary Locomotion.” “He loved that song,” Robert Sherman said. “He said, ‘That’s wonderful but we should do a little of that counter melody.’ We had done a few counterpoints and he loved the idea of that. So we came up with the actual magic words—Treguna, Mekoides, Trecorum, Satis, Dee—and put them with the verses w...
Lansbury felt that shooting Bedknobs and Broomstickswas very scheduled and regimented. Each shot was determined strictly by what had been storyboarded for it, right down to every each expression the actors had on their faces.
In fact, it may have affected her entire career. “The story reminded me of my teens,” Lansbury told D23. “Like Miss Price, I was in England when World War II broke out. My mother gave me a choice of being evacuated from London to a boarding school in the country or studying acting at home. I chose the latter without hesitation.”
Disney wanted to present the movie at the New York City Hall Christmas show, but had to meet certain time constraints in order to be considered. As a result, the movie was cut substantially. Many songs got the axe, including one called “Nobody’s Problem,” sung once by the children and once by Eglantine.
If you look closely at the audience during the animated soccer match, you’ll finda familiar face: There’s a bear wearing a Mickey Mouse T-shirt.
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks Series. 2 primary works • 4 total works. When Miss Price falls off her broomstick it's the start of an amazing adventure for Carey, Charles and Paul. Their summer holiday suddenly takes on a new turn when Miss Price, who is learning to be a witch, casts a spell on their brass bedknob so that its magic can whisk them ...
May 9, 2024 · First published as separate books in the 1940s, The Magic Bedknob and Bonfires and Broomsticks by Mary Norton were published as an omnibus edition, Bedknob and Broomstick. This title then became that of the film, with added plurals (I don’t know why – there is only one knob and one stick!)
