<P> Dotrice was a toddler when her father joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (later the Royal Shakespeare Company) in 1957 . By age four, she was ready to perform, making her début in an RSC production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht . There, a Disney scout saw Dotrice and brought her to Burbank, California, to meet Walt Disney . </P> <P> At age eight, Dotrice was hired in 1963 to appear in The Three Lives of Thomasina as a girl whose relationship with her father is mended by the magical reappearance of her cat . While Dotrice was in California, her father stayed in England--where he was portraying King Lear--and Walt Disney personally took care of her family, often hosting them in his Palm Springs home . Dotrice took quickly to Disney as a father figure, calling him "Uncle Walt". She said the admiration was mutual: "I think he really liked English kids . He was tickled pink by the accent and the etiquette . And when I was being very English and polite, he would look proudly at this little charge who had such good manners ." </P> <P> Film historian Leonard Maltin said Dotrice "won over everyone" with her performance in The Three Lives of Thomasina, and she was signed to play Jane Banks (along with once and future co-star Matthew Garber as her brother, Michael Banks) in Mary Poppins (1964). Disney's part - live - action, part - animation musical adaptation of the Poppins children's books by P.L. Travers starred David Tomlinson as a workaholic father and Glynis Johns as a suffragette mother who are too busy to spend much time with their children . Instead, they hire a nanny (Julie Andrews) who takes Jane and Michael on magical adventures designed to teach them--and their parents--about the importance of family . Poppins was Disney's biggest commercial success at the time and won five Academy Awards, making its stars world - famous . Dotrice and Garber were praised for their natural screen presence; critic Bosley Crowther wrote, "the kids...are just as they should be," while author Brian Sibley said, "these charming, delightful young people provided a wonderful centre for the film ." </P> <P> Dotrice and Garber paired up a third time in The Gnome - Mobile (1967) as the grandchildren of a rich lumber mogul who stumble across a gnome forest and help to stop the gnomes from dying off . Starring Walter Brennan in a dual role, The Gnome - Mobile failed to perform on a par with Poppins at the box office, and Dotrice did not make another film appearance as a child . </P>

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