The 1961 British comedy film directed by Edward Buzzell took its title from an English language nursery rhyme of nineteenth-century American origin called Mary Had a Little.
Mary Had a Little is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Agns Laurent, Hazel Court and Jack Watling. 
 It takes its title from the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and is about a slick impresario who tries unsuccessfully to win a bet with a psychiatrist over the production of a perfect baby via hypnotism. 
"Mary Had a Little Lamb" is an English language nursery rhyme of nineteenth-century American origin. 
