 Originally Walt Disney (qv) had considered Bette Davis (qv) for  the part of Mary Poppins based on the cold characterization  portrayed in the P.L. Travers (qv) books. Disney eventually chose  Julie Andrews (I) (qv) for the part, after her June 1962 TV  performance alongside Carol Burnett (qv). Andrews did not like the  original Sherman Brothers song "The Eyes of Love" and would not  agree to do the picture until the songwriters came up with a new  one. That new song was "A Spoonful of Sugar".