The Tap Room in the Langham Hotel, Pasadena, is a stylish and inviting space and it was one of the locations of Saving Mr. Banks.
The original hotel bar opened in the 1930s after Prohibition ended.
In this place Mrs Travers orders a tea to the bartender before returning to her room.
Costume designer Daniel Orlandi dressed Emma’s Travers as a “stubborn woman who wouldn’t give up English tweeds”.
As Pamela Travers becomes more comfortable with Walt Disney and with California, she becomes slightly less buttoned-up and she wears a bright olive dress that accentuates Emma’s curves.
Orlandi says that he had to make the dress that P. L. Travers wears to the Mary Poppins premiere much more conservative than the one worn by the real Travers because he feared Emma Thompson looked too sexy compared to the austere lady she was bringing on stage.
I always cry when I watch this scene ❤️
Short conversation between Pamela Travers and the porter who takes her luggage to the room.
“Ma’am? Would you like for me to unpack for you, ma’am?”
“Young man, if it is your ambition to handle ladies’ garments, may I suggest you take employment in a launderette?”
Fantastic! 😁
P.L. Travers described by Emma.
“She is so belligerant and she is so vulnerable, she is so bossy and yet she is so susceptible to all sorts of weather, she is such a bundle of inconsistencies and she suffers so much and yet she seems to be so strong, I mean she was a wonderful character to play”.
I love Emma Thompson 