Don DaGradi (March 1, 1911 – August 4, 1991)
One of Don DaGradi's greatest achievement was for his visual screenplay for Mary Poppins in 1964 for which he shared an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay with Bill Walsh.
The team at Disney had to transcribe the P L Travers Mary Poppins adventures into a film story, they spent over two years doing this before consulting with P L Travers and when Pamela came to 'help' with the. screenplay' she hated it! It must have been extremely difficult to be part of a enthusiastic supportive team working on a project for over two years and then have the author come in and be so dismissive and angry at the work you have done. But also to be the author with her personal ownership of the ideas and themes of a particularly autobiographical work.
Above: Don DaGradi working on storyline for Mary Poppins. Below Don's sketchs of meetings with PL Travers.
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