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 * Karen Dotrice as Jane Banks. Jane is the 11-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Banks and Michael's older sister. Jane is a high-spirited, bright, and precocious young girl.


 * Matthew Garber as Michael Banks. Michael is the 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Banks and Jane's younger brother. Michael is an excitable and naughty boy who simply adores and looks up to his father. Both Michael and Jane are mischievous and misbehave in an attempt to seek attention from their parents.

In the spring of 1910, Winifred Banks returns to her home in London after a suffragette rally ("Sister Suffragette") and learns that her children's nanny,  Katie Nanna, has quit after her children, Jane and Michael, ran away "for the fourth time this week". Later that night, Winifred's strict, ambitious husband George returns home from his job at the bank ("The Life I Lead"). George, after being informed with the news, puts an advertisement in the newspaper for a stern, no-nonsense nanny. In contrast, Jane and Michael present their advertisement for a kind, sympathetic nanny ("The Perfect Nanny"). Winifred strongly agrees with the children. However, George rips up the letter and throws the scraps in the fireplace, but a strong wind draws the scraps up through the chimney and into the sky.

The next day, several sour-faced nannies await outside the Banks family home, but a strong gust of wind magically blows them away. Jane and Michael then witness a young woman using an umbrella as a parachute to gracefully descend from the sky. The woman introduces herself as Mary Poppins. To George's shock, Mary is holding the children's advertisement, and the scraps have been put back together. Mary agrees with the advertisement's requests but promises George that she will be firm with his children. Mary hires herself and convinces George it was originally his idea. Mary takes the children upstairs and helps them magically tidy up their nursery ("A Spoonful of Sugar").