Saving Mr. Banks is Disney's film about the making of Mary Poppins, specifically the pre-production stages that author P.L. Travers was involved in. I did enjoy the movie, but I found myself wondering about whether certain events depicted in the film actually happened that way. Fortunately, this being the internet age, the answers weren't very far away. So if anyone finds themselves in the same boat I was in, or just wants to learn about what went on during the making of Mary Poppins, here's what I've learned about what the movie got right, got wrong, got partially right, and completely forgot about.
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