So is her replacement perfect in every way?

EMILY BLunt says her Mary, right, is much grittier and truer to the character in P.L. travers’s eight books about the nanny than the original Poppins, pictured left, with sweep Bert and children Michael and Jane. Critics have raved about Blunt’s acting and singing in the new film, calling it ‘exquisite’.

Director Rob Marshall said the entire crew at Shepperton Studios outside London ‘was in floods of tears’ the first time Blunt ‘flew down’ in full Mary Poppins regalia.