10 Famous Movie Moments Made Possible By Totally Ignoring History

4. Walt Disney Never Flew To London To Persuade P.L. Travers To Give Him The Rights To Mary Poppins - Saving Mr. Banks

Saving Mr. Banks was last year's cinematic re-telling of the real life feud between Mary Poppins' author P.L. Travers and Walt Disney himself, and the battle they had in trying to get her most famous fictional nanny on to the big screen. The real life story goes: Travers, desperate for money, had no other choice but to hand over the rights to Walt Disney (who had been trying to get them for 20 years) and flew to American to assist with production and make sure they didn't screw it up. Travers always made it clear that she hated what Disney had in mind for the movie, and the film depicts this part of the story accurately. It's not until the end when Travers flies home to London, still unconvinced, and is visited upon late one night by Disney himself, who has pulled himself away from the Magic Kingdom to put in one final request for the rights. She is persuaded by this sentimental meeting, of course, and even attends the premiere years later and seems to accept the movie. In actuality, such a meeting never happened - Disney never flew to London, and though Travers gave him the rights eventually, she disliked the movie until the date of her death.