Treguna Mekoides and Trecorum Satis Dee...."I don’t want locomotionary substitution or remote in transitory convolution, only one precise solution is the key…. substitutionary locomotion it must me!"Yes, Eglantine Price was searching, not for locomotionary substitution, nor for remote in read more
On October 7, 1971, Walt Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks, a delightful and magical musical starring the late great Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson, had its world premiere in London. Earlier that day, John Noakes, the host of Britain's popular children's series Blue Peter, was in Leicester read more
It has been a long, long time since we have featured a TV/Movie set article, so to bring the series back to life, my sister and I selected a house design that we have loved for years - the Bedknobs and Broomsticks manor. It's so fitting for this time of year, too. This beautiful English Tudor b read more
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” read more
“Filigree, apogee, pedigree, perigee!” Our Halloween tribute to all things witchy goes Disney with a look at Bedknobs and Broomsticks. In the wake of Mary Poppins several Poppins copycats were greenlit. United Artists tried their hand four years after Poppins, losing Andrews but retainin read more
Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Sep 17, 2012
Loosely
based on the novel by Mary Norton, Bedknobs
and Broomsticks (1971) followed up Disney's enormous success with Mary Poppins (1964), and on paper the
two pictures must look very similar. Here we have two musical comedies set in
England, both involving magic and a handful of cute but troublesom read more
