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2 unusual facts about Sister Suffragette


Sister Suffragette

According to the songwriters in their autobigraphical book, Walt's Time, Actress Glynis Johns had thought that she was being offered the eponymous role when in fact she had been slotted to play "Mrs. Banks" instead.

To amplify Disney's and Johns' mutual embarrassment, the misunderstanding only became apparent while both parties sat opposite each other in Walt Disney's Burbank studio lot office.



see also

Billingsgate

Billingsgate is also referenced in the song "Sister Suffragette" in the 1964 version of Mary Poppins.