P. L. Travers (character)

Pamela Lyndon Travers (born Helen Lyndon Goff) is the protagonist of the 2013 biographical drama film, Saving Mr. Banks, based on the real-life author of the same name. Travers is the author of the 1934 novel Mary Poppins. During the film's development in the early 1960s, she struggles with Walt Disney and his studio's attempts to convince her to sell the film rights to the novel.
In the film, Travers is portrayed by Emma Thompson as an adult and by Annie Rose Buckley as a child, where she is referred to by her birth name of Helen. Though based on the real Travers, several elements of the film's depiction of her and her story are dramatized and fictionalized.
==Trivia==
*The movie ends without showing Travers' reaction to the film, other than indifference before the film begins. In real life, she lambasted the film to the point that her last will and testament stated that no Americans would be allowed to adapt her work. By 1977, however her opinion of the film had softened, with Travers stating, "I've seen it once or twice, and I've learned to live with it. It's glamorous and it's a good film on its own level, but I don't think it is very like my books."
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