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Bonus video! The queer careers of the actors in Disney's Mary Poppins
🕑 Added 2024-03-17 16:00:08 +0000 UTCHello there!
I've got a real whale of a bonus video for you this week. In my research into the movie Victim, I noticed that a lot of the queer roads kept leading back to -- for some reason -- Disney's Mary Poppins. A lot of the women in this film have astonishingly adventurous lives, from the people they married to the roles they played outside of the Disney universe.
For example: Did you know Katie Nanna was also the Bride of Frankenstein? That Hermione Baddeley (who played Ellen the maid) had her acting career resuscitated at a gay party thrown by a homosexual named "Bunny"? And that Glynis Johns (Mrs. Banks) had an ex-husband who mayyyyyybe had an affair with one of the other women in the Mary Poppins cast? And that's only the BEGINNING. (To say nothing of the time Julie Andrews made out with Carol Burnett in an elevator.)
Also! As you might've seen, there's some new stuff coming your way!
A new podcast about My So-Called Life, launching March 25! Details here.
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Whewwww that's so much stuff. Also, here are some of the things I mentioned in this bonus video:
Reta Shaw singing "One of Those Days": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2IgPXJYh_g
Julie Andrew doing Le Jazz Hot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWd4ZT4jkHs
Chris Colfer doing Le Jazz Hot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DettFdKIZ3Y
Backup link for the bonus video: https://youtu.be/EnsNdJebwXc?si=ma61JsmbhhiDcOJ4
Comments
Matt Baume
I bet they had a LOT to talk about
Jay Cottrell
This is a month late so I imagine no one is going to see it but I'm going to say it anyway (I'm sorry this video came out the week of the World Figure Skating Championships, all I did that week was watch figure skating). Anyway, I find it very funny that both Glynis Johns and Angela Lansbury's first husbands were gay.
Lin Kibblemom
My favorite Glynis Johns film is also one of my favorite films: The Court Jester. Queer connection? She spends much of the film in drag, and her co-star is Danny Kaye, who was bi. But just watch it because it's very funny! Get it? Got it! Good!
