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Julie Andrews

April 09, 2023

Dame Julie Andrews DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author.[1] One of the last surviving leading actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood, she has garnered numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over seven decades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards and six Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for three Tony Awards. She has been honoured with an Honorary Golden Lion, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2022. She was made a dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000.[2][3][4][5]

Dame

Julie Andrews

DBE
Andrews in 2013
Born
Julia Elizabeth Wells

(1935-10-01) 1 October 1935 (age 87)
Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England
Occupations
  • Actress
  • singer
  • author
Years active1945–present
WorksFull list
Spouses
Children5, including Emma Walton Hamilton
AwardsFull list

A child actress and singer, Andrews appeared in the West End in 1948 and made her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend (1954). Billed as "Britain's youngest prima donna",[6] she rose to prominence in Broadway musicals starring as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (1956) and Queen Guinevere in Camelot (1960). She also starred in the Rodgers and Hammerstein's television musical Cinderella (1957). Andrews made her feature film debut in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins (1964) where she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. The following year, she starred in the musical film The Sound of Music (1965), playing Maria von Trapp and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.

Between 1964 and 1986, Andrews starred in various films working with directors including her husband Blake Edwards, George Roy Hill, and Alfred Hitchcock. Films she starred in include The Americanization of Emily (1964), Hawaii (1966), Torn Curtain (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Star! (1968), The Tamarind Seed (1974), 10 (1979), S.O.B. (1981), Victor/Victoria (1982), That's Life! (1986), and Duet for One (1986). She returned to films appearing in The Princess Diaries (2001), The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), as well as Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime (both 2003). She also lent her voice to the Shrek franchise and the Despicable Me franchise (2010–present).

Andrews is also known for her collaborations with Carol Burnett, including the specials Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall (1962), Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center (1971) and Julie and Carol: Together Again (1989). She starred in her own variety special The Julie Andrews Hour (1973) for which she received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Musical Series. Recently she co-created and hosted Julie's Greenroom (2017), and voiced Lady Whistledown in the Netflix series Bridgerton (2020-present). Andrews has co-authored numerous children's books with her daughter and two autobiographies, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (2008) and Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years (2019).

Early life

Julia Elizabeth Wells[7] was born on 1 October 1935 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England.[8][9] Her mother, Barbara Ward Wells (née Morris; 25 July, 1910[10]–1984) was born in Chertsey[11] and married Edward Charles "Ted" Wells (1908–1990), a teacher of metalwork and woodwork, in 1932.[12] Andrews was conceived as a result of an affair her mother had with a family friend. Andrews discovered her true parentage from her mother in 1950,[13][14] although it was not publicly disclosed until her 2008 autobiography.[15]

With the outbreak of World War II, her parents went their separate ways and were soon divorced. Each remarried: Barbara to Ted Andrews, in 1943,[16] and Ted Wells in 1944[17] to Winifred Maud (Hyde) Birkhead, a war widow and former hairstylist at a war work factory that employed them both in Hinchley Wood, Surrey.[13][14][18] Wells assisted with evacuating children to Surrey during the Blitz, while Andrews's mother joined her husband in entertaining the troops through the Entertainments National Service Association. Andrews lived briefly with Wells and her brother, John[19] in Surrey. In 1940, Wells sent her to live with her mother and stepfather, who Wells thought would be better able to provide for his talented daughter's artistic training. While Andrews had been used to calling her stepfather "Uncle Ted", her mother suggested it would be more appropriate to refer to her stepfather as "Pop", while her father remained "Dad" or "Daddy" to her, a change which she disliked.[20] The Andrews family was "very poor" and "lived in a bad slum area of London" at the time, stating that the war "was a very black period in my life". According to Andrews, her stepfather was violent and an alcoholic.[15] He twice, while drunk, tried to get into bed with his stepdaughter, resulting in Andrews fitting a lock on her door.[15]

As the stage career of her mother and stepfather improved, they were able to afford better surroundings, first to Beckenham and then, as the war ended, back to the Andrews's hometown of Hersham. The family took up residence at the Old Meuse, in West Grove, Hersham, a house (now demolished) where Andrews's maternal grandmother had served as a maid.[14] Andrews's stepfather sponsored lessons for her, first at the independent arts educational school Cone-Ripman School (ArtsEd) in London, and thereafter with concert soprano and voice instructor Madame Lilian Stiles-Allen. Andrews said of Stiles-Allen, "She had an enormous influence on me", adding, "She was my third mother – I've got more mothers and fathers than anyone in the world". In her memoir Julie Andrews – My Star Pupil, Stiles-Allen records, "The range, accuracy and tone of Julie's voice amazed me ... she had possessed the rare gift of absolute pitch",[21] though Andrews herself refutes this in her 2008 autobiography Home.[13][22] According to Andrews, "Madame was sure that I could do Mozart and Rossini, but, to be honest, I never was".[21]: 24  Of her own voice, she says, "I had a very pure, white, thin voice, a four-octave range – dogs would come from miles around."[21]: 24  After Cone-Ripman School, Andrews continued her academic education at the nearby Woodbrook School, a local state school in Beckenham.[23]

Career

Further information: Julie Andrews on screen and stage

1940s

Beginning in 1945, and for the next two years, Andrews performed spontaneously and unbilled on stage with her parents. "Then came the day when I was told I must go to bed in the afternoon because I was going to be allowed to sing with Mummy and Pop in the evening", Andrews explained. During her initial shows, Andrews stood on a beer crate to sing into the microphone, performing a solo or a duet with her stepfather, while her mother played piano. She later stated that "it must have been ghastly, but it seemed to go down all right".[24][25] Fellow child entertainer Petula Clark, three years her senior, recalled touring around the UK by train to sing for the troops alongside Andrews; they slept in the luggage racks. Clark later said "It was fun—and not a lot of kids were having fun".[26]

Andrews had her career breakthrough when her stepfather introduced her to managing director Val Parnell, whose Moss Empires controlled prominent performance venues in London. At age 12, Andrews made her professional solo debut at the London Hippodrome, singing the difficult aria "Je suis Titania" from Mignon as part of a musical revue, called "Starlight Roof", on 22 October 1947. She played at the Hippodrome for one year.[13][27] Of her role in "Starlight Roof," Andrews recalled: "There was this wonderful American person and comedian, Wally Boag, who made balloon animals. He would say, 'Is there any little girl or boy in the audience who would like one of these?' And I would rush up onstage and say, 'I'd like one, please.' And then he would chat to me and I'd tell him I sang ... I was fortunate in that I absolutely stopped the show cold. I mean, the audience went crazy".[28]

On 1 November 1948, a thirteen-year-old Andrews became the youngest solo performer ever to be seen in a Royal Variety Performance before King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at the London Palladium. Andrews performed alongside singer Danny Kaye, dancers the Nicholas Brothers, and the comedy team George and Bert Bernard.[29][30]

1950s

Andrews subsequently followed her parents into radio and television.[31] She performed in musical interludes of the BBC Light Programme comedy show Up the Pole and was a cast member in Educating Archie, from 1950 to 1952.[30] She reportedly made her television début on the BBC programme RadiOlympia Showtime on 8 October 1949.[32] Andrews appeared on West End theatre at the London Casino, where she played one year each as Princess Badroulbadour in Aladdin and the egg in Humpty Dumpty. Andrews also appeared on provincial stages in Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood, as well as starring as the lead role in Cinderella.[31] In 1952, she voiced Princess Zeila in the English dub of the Italian animated movie La Rosa di Bagdad (renamed The Singing Princess), in her first film and first venture into voice-over work.[33]

 
Andrews as Eliza Doolittle meets Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins in the musical adaptation of Pygmalion, My Fair Lady

On 30 September 1954, the eve of her 19th birthday, Andrews made her Broadway debut as Polly Browne in the London musical The Boy Friend.[1] Andrews was recommended to director Vida Hope for the part by actress Hattie Jacques, whom Andrews regards as a "catalyst" for her career.[34] Eve Benda recognised her special talent and predicted her stardom. Andrews was anxious about moving to New York; at the time, she was both breadwinner and caretaker for her family, and took the part upon her father's encouragement.[34] She stated that at the time, she had "no idea" how to research a role or study a script, and cites Cy Feuer's direction as being "phenomenal".[34] The Boy Friend became a hit, with Andrews receiving praise; critics called her the stand-out of the show.[35][34]

In 1955, Andrews signed to appear with Bing Crosby in the television film, High Tor. It filmed in November 1955 in Los Angeles and was Andrews's first screen project, which she described as "daunting".[34] High Tor was televised the following March before a live audience for the Ford Star Jubilee, receiving lukewarm reviews.[36][34] Near the end of her one-year run with The Boy Friend, Andrews was approached to audition to Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe for the role of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady.[37][34] She was offered the part during her third reading.[34] She later wrote that she felt she could "be Eliza, could find and understand her" if only someone were to "gently unravel the knotted ... string inside my stomach".[34]

 
Andrews as Queen Guinevere with Richard Burton as King Arthur in the musical Camelot

During rehearsals, director Moss Hart spent forty-eight consecutive hours solely with Andrews, where they "hammered through each scene"; Andrews later stated that "the good man had stripped [her] feelings bare [...] moulded, kneaded, and helped [her] become the character of Eliza [..] [and made] her part of [her] soul."[34] Andrews referred it as the best acting lesson she had ever received, later cementing the role with her "own touches and flourishes" and continuing to work on the character throughout her two-year run.[34] On 15 March 1956, My Fair Lady opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. The play was a huge success with both the audience and critics, though soon after opening she learned she needed to tone down her learned cockney accent so that the American audience could understand her, a change which was reversed at the West End performance a year later.[38] Andrews describes her performances as Eliza as "the great learning period" of her life.[34]

Richard Rodgers was so impressed with Andrews's talent that concurrent with her run in My Fair Lady she was featured in the Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical Cinderella, which was written especially for her.[35][34] Cinderella was broadcast live on CBS on 31 March 1957 under the musical direction of Alfredo Antonini and had an estimated 107 million viewers.[39][40] The show was broadcast live in colour from CBS Studio 72, at Broadway and 81st Street in New York: CBS' only East Coast colour studio.[34] Andrews was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role. She described the performance as "incredibly hard" and stated it took her "years to realise the enormity" of the production.[34][41] In 1957, Andrews released her debut solo album, The Lass with the Delicate Air, which harked back to her British music hall days.[42] The album includes performances of English folk songs as well as the World War II anthem, "London Pride", a patriotic song written by Noël Coward in 1941 during the Blitz, which Andrews herself had survived.[42][43]

Between 1956 and 1962, Andrews guest-starred on The Ed Sullivan Show (15 July 1956), and also appeared on The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, What's My Line?, The Jack Benny Program, The Bell Telephone Hour, and The Garry Moore Show. In June 1962, Andrews co-starred in Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, a CBS special with Carol Burnett. In 1960, Lerner and Loewe again cast her in a period musical as Queen Guinevere in Camelot, along with Richard Burton (as King Arthur) and newcomer Robert Goulet. Andrews called the work "monumental" due to the heavy set costuming and detailed literary themes.[34] Camelot premiered at the Majestic Theatre to "adequate" reviews, which Andrews credited to off-set production issues and comparisons to My Fair Lady.[34] The musical was substantially revised both before and during the show's Broadway run.[34]

1960s

Casting for the film adaptation of My Fair Lady began in 1962; Jay Lerner hoped for Andrews to reprise her role, but Warner Brothers studio head Jack Warner decided Andrews lacked sufficient name recognition; the part was played by the established film actress Audrey Hepburn, with the bulk of the singing dubbed by Marni Nixon. As Warner later recalled that the decision was made for financial purposes, stating that "In my business, I have to know who brings people and their money to a cinema box office. Audrey Hepburn had never made a financial flop."[44] Andrews later reflected that she understood her experience on Broadway "was within a very small pond" but wished she had been able to record her performance for posterity.[34]

In 1963, Andrews began work in the titular role of Disney's musical film Mary Poppins. Walt Disney had seen her performance in Camelot and subsequently offered her the role; Andrews initially declined because of pregnancy, returning to London to give birth, but Disney firmly insisted, saying, "We'll wait for you."[45] After the birth of her daughter, she received a call from P. L. Travers, author of the Mary Poppins book series, who told her, "Well, you're much too pretty of course. But you've got the nose for it."[34] Disney rented a house in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles for her family to reside in during production. Andrews relied largely on instinct for her portrayal, conceptualising her background and giving the character a "particular walk" and a turned-out stance to suit her ladylike sensibility.[34] Andrews referred to production as "unrelenting" given the physical exertion and technical details, saying that she "could not have asked" for a better introduction to film.[34]

 
Andrews in Mary Poppins (1964), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress

Mary Poppins became the biggest box-office draw in Disney history. Variety lauded Andrews's performance as a "signal triumph ... she performs as easily as she sings, displaying a fresh type of beauty."[46] The film was nominated for thirteen Academy Awards and won five, including the Academy Award for Best Actress for Andrews's performance.[47] She also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, while Andrews and her co-stars won the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Album for Children. As a measure of "sweet revenge," as Poppins songwriter Richard M. Sherman put it, Andrews closed her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes by saying, "And, finally, my thanks to a man who made a wonderful movie and who made all this possible in the first place, Mr. Jack Warner."[45][48] My Fair Lady was in direct competition for the awards.

Andrews starred opposite James Garner in the comedy-drama war film The Americanization of Emily (1964).[34] Andrews took the role partly to avoid typecasting as a nanny.[34] Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called Andrews "irresistible".. with a brush of sentiment" in both her comedic and emotional scenes.[49] Andrews was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in a Leading Role. Andrews later described it as her favourite film, a sentiment shared by her co-star Garner.[50] Andrews starred in The Sound of Music (1965), which was the highest-grossing film of its year.[51] Andrews later said she was "ashamed" to admit that she thought the musical "rather saccharine" before being cast.[34] Rehearsals took place in London before filming commenced in Salzburg, Austria in 1964.[34] Filming was rather slow; due to weather conditions in Salzburg, the cast were "lucky" if they got a single shot's worth of scenes.[34]

 
Andrews alongside co-star Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music (1965)

Andrews stated she relied on lyrics to anchor her to the film's songs and utilised vocal interpretation to "convey" Maria's character by "[hanging] onto words and the images they conjured".[34] Andrews wrote that her senses were "suffused" with Austria, saying that the music "still" and "always lives in her soul".[34] The film received mixed reviews, though critics highlighted Andrews's performance; Crowther again praised her for her "air of radiant vigour ... plain-Jane wholesomeness and her ability to make her dialogue as vivid ... as she makes her songs."[52] For her performance as Maria von Trapp, Andrews won her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She was nominated a second time for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in a Leading Role.[53] Andrews later wrote that the "gift" and "privilege" of portraying her first three film roles would have been "enough to satisfy" her for a lifetime."[34]

After completing The Sound of Music, Andrews appeared as a guest star on the NBC-TV variety series The Andy Williams Show. She followed this television appearance with an Emmy Award-winning special, The Julie Andrews Show, which featured Gene Kelly and the New Christy Minstrels as guests. It aired on NBC-TV in November 1965. In 1966, Andrews starred in Hawaii, the highest-grossing film of its year. Also in 1966, she starred opposite Paul Newman in Torn Curtain, which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and shot at Universal Studios Hollywood.[34] Hitchcock gave Newman and Andrews relative free rein in dialogue during production.[34] She credits the director with teaching her extensively about lenses and camera-work.[34] During a press interview, she "made the mistake" of expressing her unhappiness with her performance and subsequently received a "terse" letter from Hitchcock, which Andrews later cited as an "important lesson".[34] The film received mixed reviews upon release.[54]

The following year, Andrews played the titular character in Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967). Andrews described work on the film as a "pleasant distraction" for "allowing her to be something of a clown", as her stepfather died shortly before filming.[34] The film was a box office success; critics described Andrews as "very much the leading lady" and "absolutely darling" as well as "deliciously spirited and dry."[55][56] The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and Andrews scored a Golden Globe nomination for her performance.[57] At the time, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Torn Curtain were the biggest and second-biggest hits in Universal Pictures history, respectively.

 
Rock Hudson and Andrews kissing in Darling Lili (1970)

Andrews next appeared in two of Hollywood's most expensive flops: Star! (1968), a biopic of Gertrude Lawrence; and Darling Lili (1970), co-starring Rock Hudson and directed by her second husband, Blake Edwards. Andrews "went through her usual period of insecurity" during the production of Star!, intensely analysing her choices for the character.[34] Choreographer Michael Kidd worked closely with Andrews during the complicated musical numbers, which Andrews regarded as physically and mentally gruelling, coupled with her divorce from her first husband, Tony Walton.[34] The New York Times singled out the film as "not one of [Andrews]'s best", while Variety wrote her "carefully built-up" performance "sagged" with "overdone hoydenishness".[58][59] Despite reviews, her performance was once again nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.[60] Andrews regards her friendships with Kidd and director Robert Wise as her "greatest gifts" from the film.[34]

Edwards pitched the concept of Darling Lili to Andrews two years prior to the start of production in 1968.[34] She prerecorded original songs for the film with Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer.[34] Andrews cited Darling Lili's tepid reviews as being caused by studio marketing and postproduction issues.[34] While the film was a commercial bomb, the New York Times praised Andrews's performance, calling her an "unmitigated delight" and "perfect centerpiece" of the film, praising "her coolness and precision as a comedienne and a singer".[61] She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, while the film won both the Golden Globe and Academy Awards for Best Original Song.[62] Of these films, Andrews later wrote that "nonstop success in a career is impossible [...] but nobody sets out to make a failure, either."[34]

1970s

 
Andrews with Italian tenor Sergio Franchi in 1973

Andrews was the first choice to play the English witch Eglantine Price in Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971); Angela Lansbury was cast.[63] Andrews continued working in television. In 1969, she shared the spotlight with singer Harry Belafonte for an NBC-TV special, An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte. In 1971, she appeared as a guest for the Grand Opening Special of Walt Disney World, and that same year she and Carol Burnett headlined a CBS special, Julie and Carol At Lincoln Center. In 1972–73, Andrews starred in her own television variety series, The Julie Andrews Hour, on the ABC network. The show won seven Emmy Awards but was cancelled after one season.

Between 1973 and 1975, Andrews continued her association with ABC by headlining five variety specials for the network. She guest-starred on The Muppet Show in 1977,[64] and the following year, she appeared again with the Muppets on a CBS television variety special. The programme, Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring, aired in March 1978, to mixed reviews and mediocre ratings. She made only two other films in the 1970s, The Tamarind Seed (1974) and 10 (1979), both successful at the box office and by critics' reviews. In February 1980, Andrews headlined "Because We Care", a CBS-TV special with 30 major stars raising funds for Cambodian Famine victims through Operation California (now Operation USA, on whose Board she serves). Later that year, she starred in Little Miss Marker as "English rose" Amanda Worthington (a label she had first been given in the 1960s).[65] In Blake Edwards' S.O.B. (1981), she played Sally Miles, a character who agrees to "show my boobies" in a scene in the film-within-a-film.

1980s

A dual role of Victoria Grant and Count Victor Grezhinski in the film Victor/Victoria (1982) reunited her with Garner once again. Her performance earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, as well as a nomination for the 1982 Academy Award for Best Actress, her third Oscar nomination.[1][66] In 1983, Andrews was chosen as the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year by the Harvard University Theatrical Society.[67] That year, she co-starred with Burt Reynolds in The Man Who Loved Women. Her next two films were That's Life! and Duet for One (both 1986), which earned her Golden Globe nominations. In December 1987, Andrews starred in an ABC Christmas special, Julie Andrews: The Sound Of Christmas, which went on to win five Emmy Awards. Two years later, she was reunited for the third time with Carol Burnett for a variety special which aired on ABC in December 1989.

1990s

In 1991, Andrews made her television dramatic debut in the ABC made-for-TV film, Our Sons, co-starring Ann-Margret. Andrews was named a Disney Legend within the year. In the summer of 1992, Andrews starred in her first television sitcom; the short-lived Julie aired on ABC for only seven episodes and co-starred James Farentino. In December, 1992 she hosted the NBC holiday special, Christmas In Washington. Having played a Cockney flower seller in My Fair Lady, Andrews had an orangey-salmon pink rose named after her at London's Chelsea Flower Show in 1992. Stating she was "ever so flattered", portions of the sales of the "Julie Andrews Rose" were donated to charity.[68] In 1993, she starred in a limited run at the Manhattan Theatre Club in the American premiere of Stephen Sondheim's revue, Putting It Together. Between 1994 and 1995, Andrews recorded two solo albums – the first saluted the music of Richard Rodgers and the second paid tribute to the words of Alan Jay Lerner. In 1995, she starred in the stage musical version of Victor/Victoria. It was her first appearance in a Broadway show in 35 years. Opening on Broadway on 25 October 1995 at the Marquis Theatre, it later went on the road for a world tour. When she was the only Tony Award nominee for the production, she declined the nomination saying that she could not accept because she felt the entire production was snubbed.[69]

A botched vocal surgery in 1997 led to the loss of Andrews' singing voice, occasioning her refusal to sing on camera for several years.[70] Despite this, Andrews kept busy with many projects. In 1998, she appeared in a stage production of Dr. Dolittle in London. As recounted on the Julie Andrews website, she performed the voice of Polynesia the parrot and "recorded some 700 sentences and sounds, which were placed on a computer chip that sat in the mechanical bird's mouth. In the song 'Talk to the Animals,' Polynesia the parrot even sings." The next year Andrews was reunited with James Garner for the CBS made-for-TV film, One Special Night, which aired in November 1999.

2000s

In the 2000 New Year Honours List, Andrews was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to the performing arts and received the award from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.[71][72][73] In 2002, Andrews was among the guests at the Queen's Golden Jubilee Hollywood party held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.[74] She also appears at No.59 on the 2002 poll of the "100 Greatest Britons" sponsored by the BBC and chosen by the British public.[75]

 
Andrews pictured in 2001, the year she starred as Queen Clarisse Marie Renaldi in The Princess Diaries

In 2001, Andrews received Kennedy Center Honors. The same year, she reunited with Sound of Music co-star Christopher Plummer in a live television performance of On Golden Pond (an adaptation of the 1979 play). Andrews appeared in The Princess Diaries, her first Disney film since Mary Poppins. She starred as Queen Clarisse Marie Renaldi and reprised the role in the 2004 sequel, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. In the film, Andrews sang on film for the first time since having throat surgery. The song, "Your Crowning Glory", a duet with Raven-Symoné, was set in a limited range of an octave to accommodate her recovering voice.[76] The film's music supervisor, Dawn Soler, recalled that Andrews "nailed the song on the first take. I looked around and I saw grips with tears in their eyes."[76]

Andrews continued her association with Disney when she appeared as the nanny in two television films based on the Eloise books, a series of children's books by Kay Thompson about a child who lives in the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Eloise at the Plaza premiered in April 2003, and Eloise at Christmastime was broadcast in November 2003; Andrews was nominated for an Emmy Award.[41] The same year she made her debut as a theatre director, directing a revival of The Boy Friend, the musical in which she made her 1954 Broadway debut, at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, New York. Her production, which featured costume and scenic design by her former husband Tony Walton, was remounted at the Goodspeed Opera House in 2005 and went on a national tour in 2006.

 
Andrews pictured in 2003, the year she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Eloise at Christmastime

From 2005 to 2006, Andrews served as the Official Ambassador for Disneyland's 18-month-long, 50th-anniversary celebration, the "Happiest Homecoming on Earth", travelling to promote the celebration, recording narration and appearing at several events at the park. On 17 March 2005, Andrews appeared onstage during the curtain calls for the musical of Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre in London's West End, where she gave a speech recalling her own memories from making the film and praised the cast for their new interpretation.[77] In 2004, Andrews voiced Queen Lillian in the animated blockbuster Shrek 2 (2004), reprising the role for its sequels, Shrek the Third (2007) and Shrek Forever After (2010). Also in 2007, she narrated Enchanted, a live-action Disney musical comedy that both parodied and paid homage to Disney films.

On 1 May 2005, Disneyland debuted a new fireworks show, Remember... Dreams Come True, for Disneyland's 50th anniversary, with Andrews being the host and narrator of the show. In January 2007, Andrews was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Screen Actors Guild's awards and stated that her goals included continuing to direct for the stage and possibly to produce her own Broadway musical.[66] She published Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, which she characterised as "part one" of her autobiography, on 1 April 2008. Home chronicles her early years in Britain's music hall circuit and ends in 1962 with her winning the role of Mary Poppins. For a Walt Disney video release, she again portrayed Mary Poppins and narrated the story of The Cat That Looked at a King in 2004. From July until early August 2008, Andrews hosted Julie Andrews' The Gift of Music, a short tour of the United States[78] where she sang various Rodgers and Hammerstein songs and symphonised her recently published book, Simeon's Gift. Appearances included the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, and a performance with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.[79][80][81] These were her first public singing performances in a dozen years, due to her failed vocal cord surgery.[82] In January 2009, Andrews was named on The Times' list of the top 10 British Actresses of all time. The list included Helen Mirren, Helena Bonham Carter, Judi Dench, and Audrey Hepburn.[83] On 8 May 2009, Andrews received the honorary George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Music at the annual UCLA Spring Sing competition in Pauley Pavilion.

2010s

In January 2010, Andrews was the official United States presenter for the Great Performances From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2010 concert.[84] This was her second appearance in this role, after presenting the previous year's concert.[85] Andrews also had a supporting role in the film Tooth Fairy, which opened to unfavourable reviews[86] although the box office receipts were successful.[87] On her promotion tour for the film, she also spoke of Operation USA and the aid campaign to the Haiti disaster.[88]

On 8 May 2010, Andrews made her London comeback after a 21-year absence (her last performance there was a Christmas concert at the Royal Festival Hall in 1989). She performed at The O2 Arena, accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and an ensemble of five performers.[89] Earlier (on 15 December 2009 and on many other occasions), she appeared on British television saying that rumours that she would be singing at the performance were not true and that she would be doing a form of "speak singing".[90] Yet she actually sang two solos and several duets and ensemble pieces. The evening, though well received by the 20,000 fans present, who gave her standing ovation after standing ovation,[91] did not convince the critics.[92]

On 18 May 2010, Andrews's 23rd book (this one also written with her daughter Emma) was published. In June 2010, the book, entitled The Very Fairy Princess, reached number 1 on The New York Times Best Seller List for Children's Books.[93] On 21 May 2010, her film Shrek Forever After was released; in it Andrews reprises her role as the Queen.[94] On 9 July 2010, Despicable Me, an animated film in which Andrews lent her voice to Marlena Gru, the thoughtless and soul-crushing mother of the main character Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), opened to rave reviews[95] and strong box office.[96] On 28 October 2010, Andrews appeared, along with the actors who portrayed the cinematic von Trapp family members, on Oprah to commemorate the film's 45th anniversary.[97][98] A few days later, her 24th book, Little Bo in Italy, was published.[99] On 15 December 2010, Andrews's husband Blake Edwards died at the age of 88, of complications of pneumonia at the Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. Andrews was by her husband's side when he died.[100]

 
Andrews speaking on tour in Sydney, Australia in 2013

In February 2011, Andrews received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and, with her daughter Emma, a Grammy for best spoken-word album for children (for A Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies), at the 53rd Grammy Awards.[101][102] In her memoir, Home Work (2019), Andrews discussed being offered the role of Aunt Emma by Martin Scorsese for his film The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Unfortunately, she declined, citing a recent surgery and she wasn't "ready to go back to work" but "would've loved to have done it".[103] At the age of 77, Andrews undertook her first tour of Australia and New Zealand in 2013, hosted by Nicholas Hammond[104] who was a boy of 14 when they appeared together in The Sound of Music.[105] In place of singing, she planned a series of speaking engagements in Australia's five mainland state capitals.[106] The following year she took the show on a tour of England, which was hosted by Aled Jones. The tour began with a May date at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham and included an appearance at the Echo Arena in Liverpool.[107]

In 2015, Andrews made a surprise appearance at the Oscars, greeting Lady Gaga who paid her homage by singing a medley from The Sound of Music.[108] This became a social media sensation, trending all over the world.[109] Lyndon Terracini announced in August 2015 that Andrews would direct My Fair Lady in 2016 for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House.[110] In 2016, Andrews created the preschool television series Julie's Greenroom with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton and Judy Rothman. Andrews is joined by her assistant Gus (Giullian Yao Gioiello) and “Greenies,” a cast of original puppets built by The Jim Henson Company. The series premiered on Netflix in 2017.[111] In 2017, Andrews also reprised her role as Marlena Gru in the second Despicable Me sequel Despicable Me 3.[112] In 2018, Andrews voiced Karathen, a leviathan, in James Wan's Aquaman.[113] That same year, she declined a cameo appearance in Mary Poppins Returns to avoid stealing the limelight now belonging to star Emily Blunt.[114]

2020s

Beginning in December 2020, Andrews voiced the narrator Lady Whistledown in the Netflix period drama series Bridgerton.[115]

In 2022, Andrews narrated the film The King's Daughter for Gravitas Ventures. She recorded her narration in 2020. A few weeks later she was announced to be the narrator. On 9 June 2022, Andrews was honoured by the American Film Institute with a Lifetime Achievement Award, where she reflected on her career, and had tributes by multiple artists.[116] Also in 2022, she reprised her role as Gru's mother in Minions: The Rise of Gru.

Personal life

Andrews married set designer Tony Walton on 10 May 1959 in Weybridge, Surrey. They first met in 1948 when Andrews was appearing at the London Casino in the show Humpty Dumpty. In November 1962, their daughter Emma (now Emma Walton Hamilton, an author of children's books), was born.[117] They divorced in 1968.[118]

Andrews subsequently married director Blake Edwards in 1969;[119][120] becoming stepmother to his children, Jennifer and Geoffrey.[121] In the 1970s, Edwards and Andrews adopted two Vietnamese daughters; Amy (later known as Amelia) in 1974 and Joanna in 1975.[122][123] They remained married for 41 years until his death on 15 December 2010, in Santa Monica, California. He was 88 years old.[124][125] Andrews is a grandmother to nine[126] and great-grandmother to three.[127]

Voice

 
"Loch Lomond"
A live recording of Andrews singing "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" with choral backing in 1972.
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Termed "Britain's youngest prima donna",[128][129] Andrews's classically trained soprano voice,[130] lauded for its "pure and clear" sound,[131] has been described as light, bright and operatic in tone. When a young Andrews was taken by her parents to be examined by a throat specialist, the doctor concluded that she had "an almost adult larynx."[132] Despite the continual encouragement to pursue opera by her voice teacher, English soprano Lilian Stiles-Allen, Andrews herself felt that her voice was unsuited for the genre and "too big a stretch". At the time, Andrews described her own voice as "extremely high and thin", feeling that it lacked "the necessary guts and weight for opera", preferring musical theatre instead.

As Andrews aged, so did her voice, which began to naturally deepen. Losing her vast upper register, her "top notes" became increasingly difficult to sing while "her middle register matured into the warm golden tone" for which she has become known, according to Tim Wong of The Daily Telegraph.[132] Musically, she had always preferred singing music that was "bright and sunny", choosing to avoid songs that were sad or otherwise written in a minor key, for fear of losing her voice "in a mess of emotion". She cited this as another reason for avoiding opera.[132]

Loss of singing voice

Andrews was forced to quit the Victor/Victoria stage production towards the end of the Broadway run in 1997 when she developed hoarseness in her voice. She subsequently underwent surgery at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, reportedly to remove non-cancerous nodules from her throat,[1] though she later stated the hoarseness was due to "a certain kind of muscular striation [that] happens on the vocal cords"—itself the result of a strain from Victor/Victoria (she added "I didn't have cancer, I didn't have nodules, I didn't have anything.")[133] She emerged from the surgery with permanent damage that destroyed the purity of her singing and made her speaking voice raspy. In 1999, she filed a malpractice suit against the doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital, including Scott Kessler and Jeffrey Libin, who had operated on her throat. Originally, the doctors assured Andrews that she should regain her voice within six weeks, but Andrews's stepdaughter, Jennifer Edwards, said in 1999 "it's been two years, and it [her singing voice] still hasn't returned."[134] The lawsuit was settled in September 2000 for an undisclosed amount.[135]

Andrews admits that she has never recovered from the botched attempt to remove nodules from her vocal cords back in 1997. Her famous, four-octave soprano was then reduced to a fragile alto – she was quoted at the time as saying "I can sing the hell out of "Old Man River."[105]

Subsequently, from 2000 onwards, Steven M. Zeitels, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation, operated on her four times and, while able to improve her speaking voice, was unable to restore her singing.[70]

Acting credits

Main article: Julie Andrews on screen and stage

Awards and honours

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Julie Andrews

In June 2022, Andrews was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award at a ceremony in Los Angeles after a two-year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[136] In 2002, Andrews was ranked No. 59 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.

Bibliography

Andrews has published several books (mainly children's books and autobiographies) under her name, as well as her married names Julie Andrews Edwards and Julie Edwards.

  • Andrews, Julie. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years. Hyperion, 2008. ISBN 0-7868-6565-2.
  • Andrews, Julie. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years at Internet Archive. Hyperion, 2008
  • Andrews, Julie and Emma Walton Hamilton (authors). Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years. Hachette, 2019. ISBN 9780316349253.
  • Andrews, Julie and Emma Walton Hamilton (authors) and Christine Davenier (Illustrator). Very Fairy Princess. Little Brown, 2010. ISBN 978-0-316-04050-1.
  • Andrews, Julie and Emma Walton Hamilton (authors) and James McMullan (Illustrator). Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies. Little Brown, 2009. ISBN 978-0-316-04049-5.
  • Edwards, Julie Andrews (author) and Judith Gwyn Brown (illustrator). Mandy. Harper & Row, 1971. ISBN 0-06-440296-7.
  • Edwards, Julie Andrews (author) and Johanna Westerman (illustrator). Mandy: 35th Anniversary Edition. HarperCollins, 2006. ISBN 0-06-113162-8.
  • Edwards, Julie. The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles. New York: Harper and Row. 1974. ISBN 0-00-184461-X.
  • Edwards, Julie Andrews. Little Bo: The Story of Bonnie Boadicea. Hyperion, 1999. ISBN 0-7868-0514-5. (several others in this series)
  • Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton. Dumpy the Dumptruck. Hyperion, 2000. ISBN 0-7868-0609-5. (several others in the Dumpy series)
  • Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton, (authors). Gennady Spirin (illustrator). Simeon's Gift. 2003. ISBN 0-06-008914-8.
  • Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton. Dragon: Hound of Honor. HarperTrophy, 2005. ISBN 0-06-057121-7.
  • Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton (authors) and Tony Walton (illustrator). The Great American Mousical. HarperTrophy, 2006. ISBN 0-06-057918-8.
  • Edwards, Julie Andrews; Walton Hamilton, Emma (2007). Thanks to You: Wisdom from Mother and Child. Julie Andrews Collection. ISBN 978-0-06-124002-7..

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Dame Julie Andrews DBE born Julia Elizabeth Wells 1 October 1935 is an English actress singer and author 1 One of the last surviving leading actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood she has garnered numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over seven decades including an Academy Award a BAFTA Award two Emmy Awards three Grammy Awards and six Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for three Tony Awards She has been honoured with an Honorary Golden Lion the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001 the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2007 and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2022 She was made a dame DBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000 2 3 4 5 DameJulie AndrewsDBEAndrews in 2013BornJulia Elizabeth Wells 1935 10 01 1 October 1935 age 87 Walton on Thames Surrey EnglandOccupationsActresssingerauthorYears active1945 presentWorksFull listSpousesTony Walton m 1959 div 1968 wbr Blake Edwards m 1969 died 2010 wbr Children5 including Emma Walton HamiltonAwardsFull listA child actress and singer Andrews appeared in the West End in 1948 and made her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend 1954 Billed as Britain s youngest prima donna 6 she rose to prominence in Broadway musicals starring as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady 1956 and Queen Guinevere in Camelot 1960 She also starred in the Rodgers and Hammerstein s television musical Cinderella 1957 Andrews made her feature film debut in Walt Disney s Mary Poppins 1964 where she won the Academy Award for Best Actress The following year she starred in the musical film The Sound of Music 1965 playing Maria von Trapp and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion Picture Comedy or Musical Between 1964 and 1986 Andrews starred in various films working with directors including her husband Blake Edwards George Roy Hill and Alfred Hitchcock Films she starred in include The Americanization of Emily 1964 Hawaii 1966 Torn Curtain 1966 Thoroughly Modern Millie 1967 Star 1968 The Tamarind Seed 1974 10 1979 S O B 1981 Victor Victoria 1982 That s Life 1986 and Duet for One 1986 She returned to films appearing in The Princess Diaries 2001 The Princess Diaries 2 Royal Engagement 2004 as well as Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime both 2003 She also lent her voice to the Shrek franchise and the Despicable Me franchise 2010 present Andrews is also known for her collaborations with Carol Burnett including the specials Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall 1962 Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center 1971 and Julie and Carol Together Again 1989 She starred in her own variety special The Julie Andrews Hour 1973 for which she received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Musical Series Recently she co created and hosted Julie s Greenroom 2017 and voiced Lady Whistledown in the Netflix series Bridgerton 2020 present Andrews has co authored numerous children s books with her daughter and two autobiographies Home A Memoir of My Early Years 2008 and Home Work A Memoir of My Hollywood Years 2019 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 1940s 2 2 1950s 2 3 1960s 2 4 1970s 2 5 1980s 2 6 1990s 2 7 2000s 2 8 2010s 2 9 2020s 3 Personal life 4 Voice 4 1 Loss of singing voice 5 Acting credits 6 Awards and honours 7 Bibliography 8 References 9 External linksEarly life EditJulia Elizabeth Wells 7 was born on 1 October 1935 in Walton on Thames Surrey England 8 9 Her mother Barbara Ward Wells nee Morris 25 July 1910 10 1984 was born in Chertsey 11 and married Edward Charles Ted Wells 1908 1990 a teacher of metalwork and woodwork in 1932 12 Andrews was conceived as a result of an affair her mother had with a family friend Andrews discovered her true parentage from her mother in 1950 13 14 although it was not publicly disclosed until her 2008 autobiography 15 With the outbreak of World War II her parents went their separate ways and were soon divorced Each remarried Barbara to Ted Andrews in 1943 16 and Ted Wells in 1944 17 to Winifred Maud Hyde Birkhead a war widow and former hairstylist at a war work factory that employed them both in Hinchley Wood Surrey 13 14 18 Wells assisted with evacuating children to Surrey during the Blitz while Andrews s mother joined her husband in entertaining the troops through the Entertainments National Service Association Andrews lived briefly with Wells and her brother John 19 in Surrey In 1940 Wells sent her to live with her mother and stepfather who Wells thought would be better able to provide for his talented daughter s artistic training While Andrews had been used to calling her stepfather Uncle Ted her mother suggested it would be more appropriate to refer to her stepfather as Pop while her father remained Dad or Daddy to her a change which she disliked 20 The Andrews family was very poor and lived in a bad slum area of London at the time stating that the war was a very black period in my life According to Andrews her stepfather was violent and an alcoholic 15 He twice while drunk tried to get into bed with his stepdaughter resulting in Andrews fitting a lock on her door 15 As the stage career of her mother and stepfather improved they were able to afford better surroundings first to Beckenham and then as the war ended back to the Andrews s hometown of Hersham The family took up residence at the Old Meuse in West Grove Hersham a house now demolished where Andrews s maternal grandmother had served as a maid 14 Andrews s stepfather sponsored lessons for her first at the independent arts educational school Cone Ripman School ArtsEd in London and thereafter with concert soprano and voice instructor Madame Lilian Stiles Allen Andrews said of Stiles Allen She had an enormous influence on me adding She was my third mother I ve got more mothers and fathers than anyone in the world In her memoir Julie Andrews My Star Pupil Stiles Allen records The range accuracy and tone of Julie s voice amazed me she had possessed the rare gift of absolute pitch 21 though Andrews herself refutes this in her 2008 autobiography Home 13 22 According to Andrews Madame was sure that I could do Mozart and Rossini but to be honest I never was 21 24 Of her own voice she says I had a very pure white thin voice a four octave range dogs would come from miles around 21 24 After Cone Ripman School Andrews continued her academic education at the nearby Woodbrook School a local state school in Beckenham 23 Career EditFurther information Julie Andrews on screen and stage 1940s Edit Beginning in 1945 and for the next two years Andrews performed spontaneously and unbilled on stage with her parents Then came the day when I was told I must go to bed in the afternoon because I was going to be allowed to sing with Mummy and Pop in the evening Andrews explained During her initial shows Andrews stood on a beer crate to sing into the microphone performing a solo or a duet with her stepfather while her mother played piano She later stated that it must have been ghastly but it seemed to go down all right 24 25 Fellow child entertainer Petula Clark three years her senior recalled touring around the UK by train to sing for the troops alongside Andrews they slept in the luggage racks Clark later said It was fun and not a lot of kids were having fun 26 Andrews had her career breakthrough when her stepfather introduced her to managing director Val Parnell whose Moss Empires controlled prominent performance venues in London At age 12 Andrews made her professional solo debut at the London Hippodrome singing the difficult aria Je suis Titania from Mignon as part of a musical revue called Starlight Roof on 22 October 1947 She played at the Hippodrome for one year 13 27 Of her role in Starlight Roof Andrews recalled There was this wonderful American person and comedian Wally Boag who made balloon animals He would say Is there any little girl or boy in the audience who would like one of these And I would rush up onstage and say I d like one please And then he would chat to me and I d tell him I sang I was fortunate in that I absolutely stopped the show cold I mean the audience went crazy 28 On 1 November 1948 a thirteen year old Andrews became the youngest solo performer ever to be seen in a Royal Variety Performance before King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at the London Palladium Andrews performed alongside singer Danny Kaye dancers the Nicholas Brothers and the comedy team George and Bert Bernard 29 30 1950s EditAndrews subsequently followed her parents into radio and television 31 She performed in musical interludes of the BBC Light Programme comedy show Up the Pole and was a cast member in Educating Archie from 1950 to 1952 30 She reportedly made her television debut on the BBC programme RadiOlympia Showtime on 8 October 1949 32 Andrews appeared on West End theatre at the London Casino where she played one year each as Princess Badroulbadour in Aladdin and the egg in Humpty Dumpty Andrews also appeared on provincial stages in Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood as well as starring as the lead role in Cinderella 31 In 1952 she voiced Princess Zeila in the English dub of the Italian animated movie La Rosa di Bagdad renamed The Singing Princess in her first film and first venture into voice over work 33 Andrews as Eliza Doolittle meets Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins in the musical adaptation of Pygmalion My Fair Lady On 30 September 1954 the eve of her 19th birthday Andrews made her Broadway debut as Polly Browne in the London musical The Boy Friend 1 Andrews was recommended to director Vida Hope for the part by actress Hattie Jacques whom Andrews regards as a catalyst for her career 34 Eve Benda recognised her special talent and predicted her stardom Andrews was anxious about moving to New York at the time she was both breadwinner and caretaker for her family and took the part upon her father s encouragement 34 She stated that at the time she had no idea how to research a role or study a script and cites Cy Feuer s direction as being phenomenal 34 The Boy Friend became a hit with Andrews receiving praise critics called her the stand out of the show 35 34 In 1955 Andrews signed to appear with Bing Crosby in the television film High Tor It filmed in November 1955 in Los Angeles and was Andrews s first screen project which she described as daunting 34 High Tor was televised the following March before a live audience for the Ford Star Jubilee receiving lukewarm reviews 36 34 Near the end of her one year run with The Boy Friend Andrews was approached to audition to Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe for the role of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady 37 34 She was offered the part during her third reading 34 She later wrote that she felt she could be Eliza could find and understand her if only someone were to gently unravel the knotted string inside my stomach 34 Andrews as Queen Guinevere with Richard Burton as King Arthur in the musical Camelot During rehearsals director Moss Hart spent forty eight consecutive hours solely with Andrews where they hammered through each scene Andrews later stated that the good man had stripped her feelings bare moulded kneaded and helped her become the character of Eliza and made her part of her soul 34 Andrews referred it as the best acting lesson she had ever received later cementing the role with her own touches and flourishes and continuing to work on the character throughout her two year run 34 On 15 March 1956 My Fair Lady opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre The play was a huge success with both the audience and critics though soon after opening she learned she needed to tone down her learned cockney accent so that the American audience could understand her a change which was reversed at the West End performance a year later 38 Andrews describes her performances as Eliza as the great learning period of her life 34 Richard Rodgers was so impressed with Andrews s talent that concurrent with her run in My Fair Lady she was featured in the Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical Cinderella which was written especially for her 35 34 Cinderella was broadcast live on CBS on 31 March 1957 under the musical direction of Alfredo Antonini and had an estimated 107 million viewers 39 40 The show was broadcast live in colour from CBS Studio 72 at Broadway and 81st Street in New York CBS only East Coast colour studio 34 Andrews was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role She described the performance as incredibly hard and stated it took her years to realise the enormity of the production 34 41 In 1957 Andrews released her debut solo album The Lass with the Delicate Air which harked back to her British music hall days 42 The album includes performances of English folk songs as well as the World War II anthem London Pride a patriotic song written by Noel Coward in 1941 during the Blitz which Andrews herself had survived 42 43 Between 1956 and 1962 Andrews guest starred on The Ed Sullivan Show 15 July 1956 and also appeared on The Dinah Shore Chevy Show What s My Line The Jack Benny Program The Bell Telephone Hour and The Garry Moore Show In June 1962 Andrews co starred in Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall a CBS special with Carol Burnett In 1960 Lerner and Loewe again cast her in a period musical as Queen Guinevere in Camelot along with Richard Burton as King Arthur and newcomer Robert Goulet Andrews called the work monumental due to the heavy set costuming and detailed literary themes 34 Camelot premiered at the Majestic Theatre to adequate reviews which Andrews credited to off set production issues and comparisons to My Fair Lady 34 The musical was substantially revised both before and during the show s Broadway run 34 1960s Edit Casting for the film adaptation of My Fair Lady began in 1962 Jay Lerner hoped for Andrews to reprise her role but Warner Brothers studio head Jack Warner decided Andrews lacked sufficient name recognition the part was played by the established film actress Audrey Hepburn with the bulk of the singing dubbed by Marni Nixon As Warner later recalled that the decision was made for financial purposes stating that In my business I have to know who brings people and their money to a cinema box office Audrey Hepburn had never made a financial flop 44 Andrews later reflected that she understood her experience on Broadway was within a very small pond but wished she had been able to record her performance for posterity 34 In 1963 Andrews began work in the titular role of Disney s musical film Mary Poppins Walt Disney had seen her performance in Camelot and subsequently offered her the role Andrews initially declined because of pregnancy returning to London to give birth but Disney firmly insisted saying We ll wait for you 45 After the birth of her daughter she received a call from P L Travers author of the Mary Poppins book series who told her Well you re much too pretty of course But you ve got the nose for it 34 Disney rented a house in Toluca Lake Los Angeles for her family to reside in during production Andrews relied largely on instinct for her portrayal conceptualising her background and giving the character a particular walk and a turned out stance to suit her ladylike sensibility 34 Andrews referred to production as unrelenting given the physical exertion and technical details saying that she could not have asked for a better introduction to film 34 Andrews in Mary Poppins 1964 for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress Mary Poppins became the biggest box office draw in Disney history Variety lauded Andrews s performance as a signal triumph she performs as easily as she sings displaying a fresh type of beauty 46 The film was nominated for thirteen Academy Awards and won five including the Academy Award for Best Actress for Andrews s performance 47 She also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion Picture Comedy or Musical while Andrews and her co stars won the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Album for Children As a measure of sweet revenge as Poppins songwriter Richard M Sherman put it Andrews closed her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes by saying And finally my thanks to a man who made a wonderful movie and who made all this possible in the first place Mr Jack Warner 45 48 My Fair Lady was in direct competition for the awards Andrews starred opposite James Garner in the comedy drama war film The Americanization of Emily 1964 34 Andrews took the role partly to avoid typecasting as a nanny 34 Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called Andrews irresistible with a brush of sentiment in both her comedic and emotional scenes 49 Andrews was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in a Leading Role Andrews later described it as her favourite film a sentiment shared by her co star Garner 50 Andrews starred in The Sound of Music 1965 which was the highest grossing film of its year 51 Andrews later said she was ashamed to admit that she thought the musical rather saccharine before being cast 34 Rehearsals took place in London before filming commenced in Salzburg Austria in 1964 34 Filming was rather slow due to weather conditions in Salzburg the cast were lucky if they got a single shot s worth of scenes 34 Andrews alongside co star Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music 1965 Andrews stated she relied on lyrics to anchor her to the film s songs and utilised vocal interpretation to convey Maria s character by hanging onto words and the images they conjured 34 Andrews wrote that her senses were suffused with Austria saying that the music still and always lives in her soul 34 The film received mixed reviews though critics highlighted Andrews s performance Crowther again praised her for her air of radiant vigour plain Jane wholesomeness and her ability to make her dialogue as vivid as she makes her songs 52 For her performance as Maria von Trapp Andrews won her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion Picture Comedy or Musical She was nominated a second time for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in a Leading Role 53 Andrews later wrote that the gift and privilege of portraying her first three film roles would have been enough to satisfy her for a lifetime 34 After completing The Sound of Music Andrews appeared as a guest star on the NBC TV variety series The Andy Williams Show She followed this television appearance with an Emmy Award winning special The Julie Andrews Show which featured Gene Kelly and the New Christy Minstrels as guests It aired on NBC TV in November 1965 In 1966 Andrews starred in Hawaii the highest grossing film of its year Also in 1966 she starred opposite Paul Newman in Torn Curtain which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and shot at Universal Studios Hollywood 34 Hitchcock gave Newman and Andrews relative free rein in dialogue during production 34 She credits the director with teaching her extensively about lenses and camera work 34 During a press interview she made the mistake of expressing her unhappiness with her performance and subsequently received a terse letter from Hitchcock which Andrews later cited as an important lesson 34 The film received mixed reviews upon release 54 The following year Andrews played the titular character in Thoroughly Modern Millie 1967 Andrews described work on the film as a pleasant distraction for allowing her to be something of a clown as her stepfather died shortly before filming 34 The film was a box office success critics described Andrews as very much the leading lady and absolutely darling as well as deliciously spirited and dry 55 56 The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and Andrews scored a Golden Globe nomination for her performance 57 At the time Thoroughly Modern Millie and Torn Curtain were the biggest and second biggest hits in Universal Pictures history respectively Rock Hudson and Andrews kissing in Darling Lili 1970 Andrews next appeared in two of Hollywood s most expensive flops Star 1968 a biopic of Gertrude Lawrence and Darling Lili 1970 co starring Rock Hudson and directed by her second husband Blake Edwards Andrews went through her usual period of insecurity during the production of Star intensely analysing her choices for the character 34 Choreographer Michael Kidd worked closely with Andrews during the complicated musical numbers which Andrews regarded as physically and mentally gruelling coupled with her divorce from her first husband Tony Walton 34 The New York Times singled out the film as not one of Andrews s best while Variety wrote her carefully built up performance sagged with overdone hoydenishness 58 59 Despite reviews her performance was once again nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion Picture Comedy or Musical 60 Andrews regards her friendships with Kidd and director Robert Wise as her greatest gifts from the film 34 Edwards pitched the concept of Darling Lili to Andrews two years prior to the start of production in 1968 34 She prerecorded original songs for the film with Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer 34 Andrews cited Darling Lili s tepid reviews as being caused by studio marketing and postproduction issues 34 While the film was a commercial bomb the New York Times praised Andrews s performance calling her an unmitigated delight and perfect centerpiece of the film praising her coolness and precision as a comedienne and a singer 61 She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion Picture Comedy or Musical while the film won both the Golden Globe and Academy Awards for Best Original Song 62 Of these films Andrews later wrote that nonstop success in a career is impossible but nobody sets out to make a failure either 34 1970s Edit Andrews with Italian tenor Sergio Franchi in 1973Andrews was the first choice to play the English witch Eglantine Price in Disney s Bedknobs and Broomsticks 1971 Angela Lansbury was cast 63 Andrews continued working in television In 1969 she shared the spotlight with singer Harry Belafonte for an NBC TV special An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte In 1971 she appeared as a guest for the Grand Opening Special of Walt Disney World and that same year she and Carol Burnett headlined a CBS special Julie and Carol At Lincoln Center In 1972 73 Andrews starred in her own television variety series The Julie Andrews Hour on the ABC network The show won seven Emmy Awards but was cancelled after one season Between 1973 and 1975 Andrews continued her association with ABC by headlining five variety specials for the network She guest starred on The Muppet Show in 1977 64 and the following year she appeared again with the Muppets on a CBS television variety special The programme Julie Andrews One Step Into Spring aired in March 1978 to mixed reviews and mediocre ratings She made only two other films in the 1970s The Tamarind Seed 1974 and 10 1979 both successful at the box office and by critics reviews In February 1980 Andrews headlined Because We Care a CBS TV special with 30 major stars raising funds for Cambodian Famine victims through Operation California now Operation USA on whose Board she serves Later that year she starred in Little Miss Marker as English rose Amanda Worthington a label she had first been given in the 1960s 65 In Blake Edwards S O B 1981 she played Sally Miles a character who agrees to show my boobies in a scene in the film within a film 1980s Edit A dual role of Victoria Grant and Count Victor Grezhinski in the film Victor Victoria 1982 reunited her with Garner once again Her performance earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion Picture Comedy or Musical as well as a nomination for the 1982 Academy Award for Best Actress her third Oscar nomination 1 66 In 1983 Andrews was chosen as the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year by the Harvard University Theatrical Society 67 That year she co starred with Burt Reynolds in The Man Who Loved Women Her next two films were That s Life and Duet for One both 1986 which earned her Golden Globe nominations In December 1987 Andrews starred in an ABC Christmas special Julie Andrews The Sound Of Christmas which went on to win five Emmy Awards Two years later she was reunited for the third time with Carol Burnett for a variety special which aired on ABC in December 1989 1990s Edit In 1991 Andrews made her television dramatic debut in the ABC made for TV film Our Sons co starring Ann Margret Andrews was named a Disney Legend within the year In the summer of 1992 Andrews starred in her first television sitcom the short lived Julie aired on ABC for only seven episodes and co starred James Farentino In December 1992 she hosted the NBC holiday special Christmas In Washington Having played a Cockney flower seller in My Fair Lady Andrews had an orangey salmon pink rose named after her at London s Chelsea Flower Show in 1992 Stating she was ever so flattered portions of the sales of the Julie Andrews Rose were donated to charity 68 In 1993 she starred in a limited run at the Manhattan Theatre Club in the American premiere of Stephen Sondheim s revue Putting It Together Between 1994 and 1995 Andrews recorded two solo albums the first saluted the music of Richard Rodgers and the second paid tribute to the words of Alan Jay Lerner In 1995 she starred in the stage musical version of Victor Victoria It was her first appearance in a Broadway show in 35 years Opening on Broadway on 25 October 1995 at the Marquis Theatre it later went on the road for a world tour When she was the only Tony Award nominee for the production she declined the nomination saying that she could not accept because she felt the entire production was snubbed 69 A botched vocal surgery in 1997 led to the loss of Andrews singing voice occasioning her refusal to sing on camera for several years 70 Despite this Andrews kept busy with many projects In 1998 she appeared in a stage production of Dr Dolittle in London As recounted on the Julie Andrews website she performed the voice of Polynesia the parrot and recorded some 700 sentences and sounds which were placed on a computer chip that sat in the mechanical bird s mouth In the song Talk to the Animals Polynesia the parrot even sings The next year Andrews was reunited with James Garner for the CBS made for TV film One Special Night which aired in November 1999 2000s EditIn the 2000 New Year Honours List Andrews was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire DBE for services to the performing arts and received the award from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace 71 72 73 In 2002 Andrews was among the guests at the Queen s Golden Jubilee Hollywood party held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel 74 She also appears at No 59 on the 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons sponsored by the BBC and chosen by the British public 75 Andrews pictured in 2001 the year she starred as Queen Clarisse Marie Renaldi in The Princess Diaries In 2001 Andrews received Kennedy Center Honors The same year she reunited with Sound of Music co star Christopher Plummer in a live television performance of On Golden Pond an adaptation of the 1979 play Andrews appeared in The Princess Diaries her first Disney film since Mary Poppins She starred as Queen Clarisse Marie Renaldi and reprised the role in the 2004 sequel The Princess Diaries 2 Royal Engagement In the film Andrews sang on film for the first time since having throat surgery The song Your Crowning Glory a duet with Raven Symone was set in a limited range of an octave to accommodate her recovering voice 76 The film s music supervisor Dawn Soler recalled that Andrews nailed the song on the first take I looked around and I saw grips with tears in their eyes 76 Andrews continued her association with Disney when she appeared as the nanny in two television films based on the Eloise books a series of children s books by Kay Thompson about a child who lives in the Plaza Hotel in New York City Eloise at the Plaza premiered in April 2003 and Eloise at Christmastime was broadcast in November 2003 Andrews was nominated for an Emmy Award 41 The same year she made her debut as a theatre director directing a revival of The Boy Friend the musical in which she made her 1954 Broadway debut at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor New York Her production which featured costume and scenic design by her former husband Tony Walton was remounted at the Goodspeed Opera House in 2005 and went on a national tour in 2006 Andrews pictured in 2003 the year she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Eloise at Christmastime From 2005 to 2006 Andrews served as the Official Ambassador for Disneyland s 18 month long 50th anniversary celebration the Happiest Homecoming on Earth travelling to promote the celebration recording narration and appearing at several events at the park On 17 March 2005 Andrews appeared onstage during the curtain calls for the musical of Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre in London s West End where she gave a speech recalling her own memories from making the film and praised the cast for their new interpretation 77 In 2004 Andrews voiced Queen Lillian in the animated blockbuster Shrek 2 2004 reprising the role for its sequels Shrek the Third 2007 and Shrek Forever After 2010 Also in 2007 she narrated Enchanted a live action Disney musical comedy that both parodied and paid homage to Disney films On 1 May 2005 Disneyland debuted a new fireworks show Remember Dreams Come True for Disneyland s 50th anniversary with Andrews being the host and narrator of the show In January 2007 Andrews was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Screen Actors Guild s awards and stated that her goals included continuing to direct for the stage and possibly to produce her own Broadway musical 66 She published Home A Memoir of My Early Years which she characterised as part one of her autobiography on 1 April 2008 Home chronicles her early years in Britain s music hall circuit and ends in 1962 with her winning the role of Mary Poppins For a Walt Disney video release she again portrayed Mary Poppins and narrated the story of The Cat That Looked at a King in 2004 From July until early August 2008 Andrews hosted Julie Andrews The Gift of Music a short tour of the United States 78 where she sang various Rodgers and Hammerstein songs and symphonised her recently published book Simeon s Gift Appearances included the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia and a performance with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 79 80 81 These were her first public singing performances in a dozen years due to her failed vocal cord surgery 82 In January 2009 Andrews was named on The Times list of the top 10 British Actresses of all time The list included Helen Mirren Helena Bonham Carter Judi Dench and Audrey Hepburn 83 On 8 May 2009 Andrews received the honorary George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Music at the annual UCLA Spring Sing competition in Pauley Pavilion 2010s Edit In January 2010 Andrews was the official United States presenter for the Great Performances From Vienna The New Year s Celebration 2010 concert 84 This was her second appearance in this role after presenting the previous year s concert 85 Andrews also had a supporting role in the film Tooth Fairy which opened to unfavourable reviews 86 although the box office receipts were successful 87 On her promotion tour for the film she also spoke of Operation USA and the aid campaign to the Haiti disaster 88 Andrews at Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at University of Southern California On 8 May 2010 Andrews made her London comeback after a 21 year absence her last performance there was a Christmas concert at the Royal Festival Hall in 1989 She performed at The O2 Arena accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and an ensemble of five performers 89 Earlier on 15 December 2009 and on many other occasions she appeared on British television saying that rumours that she would be singing at the performance were not true and that she would be doing a form of speak singing 90 Yet she actually sang two solos and several duets and ensemble pieces The evening though well received by the 20 000 fans present who gave her standing ovation after standing ovation 91 did not convince the critics 92 On 18 May 2010 Andrews s 23rd book this one also written with her daughter Emma was published In June 2010 the book entitled The Very Fairy Princess reached number 1 on The New York Times Best Seller List for Children s Books 93 On 21 May 2010 her film Shrek Forever After was released in it Andrews reprises her role as the Queen 94 On 9 July 2010 Despicable Me an animated film in which Andrews lent her voice to Marlena Gru the thoughtless and soul crushing mother of the main character Gru voiced by Steve Carell opened to rave reviews 95 and strong box office 96 On 28 October 2010 Andrews appeared along with the actors who portrayed the cinematic von Trapp family members on Oprah to commemorate the film s 45th anniversary 97 98 A few days later her 24th book Little Bo in Italy was published 99 On 15 December 2010 Andrews s husband Blake Edwards died at the age of 88 of complications of pneumonia at the Saint John s Health Center in Santa Monica California Andrews was by her husband s side when he died 100 Andrews speaking on tour in Sydney Australia in 2013 In February 2011 Andrews received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and with her daughter Emma a Grammy for best spoken word album for children for A Collection of Poems Songs and Lullabies at the 53rd Grammy Awards 101 102 In her memoir Home Work 2019 Andrews discussed being offered the role of Aunt Emma by Martin Scorsese for his film The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 Unfortunately she declined citing a recent surgery and she wasn t ready to go back to work but would ve loved to have done it 103 At the age of 77 Andrews undertook her first tour of Australia and New Zealand in 2013 hosted by Nicholas Hammond 104 who was a boy of 14 when they appeared together in The Sound of Music 105 In place of singing she planned a series of speaking engagements in Australia s five mainland state capitals 106 The following year she took the show on a tour of England which was hosted by Aled Jones The tour began with a May date at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham and included an appearance at the Echo Arena in Liverpool 107 In 2015 Andrews made a surprise appearance at the Oscars greeting Lady Gaga who paid her homage by singing a medley from The Sound of Music 108 This became a social media sensation trending all over the world 109 Lyndon Terracini announced in August 2015 that Andrews would direct My Fair Lady in 2016 for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House 110 In 2016 Andrews created the preschool television series Julie s Greenroom with her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton and Judy Rothman Andrews is joined by her assistant Gus Giullian Yao Gioiello and Greenies a cast of original puppets built by The Jim Henson Company The series premiered on Netflix in 2017 111 In 2017 Andrews also reprised her role as Marlena Gru in the second Despicable Me sequel Despicable Me 3 112 In 2018 Andrews voiced Karathen a leviathan in James Wan s Aquaman 113 That same year she declined a cameo appearance in Mary Poppins Returns to avoid stealing the limelight now belonging to star Emily Blunt 114 2020s Edit Beginning in December 2020 Andrews voiced the narrator Lady Whistledown in the Netflix period drama series Bridgerton 115 In 2022 Andrews narrated the film The King s Daughter for Gravitas Ventures She recorded her narration in 2020 A few weeks later she was announced to be the narrator On 9 June 2022 Andrews was honoured by the American Film Institute with a Lifetime Achievement Award where she reflected on her career and had tributes by multiple artists 116 Also in 2022 she reprised her role as Gru s mother in Minions The Rise of Gru Personal life EditAndrews married set designer Tony Walton on 10 May 1959 in Weybridge Surrey They first met in 1948 when Andrews was appearing at the London Casino in the show Humpty Dumpty In November 1962 their daughter Emma now Emma Walton Hamilton an author of children s books was born 117 They divorced in 1968 118 Andrews subsequently married director Blake Edwards in 1969 119 120 becoming stepmother to his children Jennifer and Geoffrey 121 In the 1970s Edwards and Andrews adopted two Vietnamese daughters Amy later known as Amelia in 1974 and Joanna in 1975 122 123 They remained married for 41 years until his death on 15 December 2010 in Santa Monica California He was 88 years old 124 125 Andrews is a grandmother to nine 126 and great grandmother to three 127 Voice Edit Loch Lomond source source A live recording of Andrews singing The Bonnie Banks o Loch Lomond with choral backing in 1972 Problems playing this file See media help Termed Britain s youngest prima donna 128 129 Andrews s classically trained soprano voice 130 lauded for its pure and clear sound 131 has been described as light bright and operatic in tone When a young Andrews was taken by her parents to be examined by a throat specialist the doctor concluded that she had an almost adult larynx 132 Despite the continual encouragement to pursue opera by her voice teacher English soprano Lilian Stiles Allen Andrews herself felt that her voice was unsuited for the genre and too big a stretch At the time Andrews described her own voice as extremely high and thin feeling that it lacked the necessary guts and weight for opera preferring musical theatre instead As Andrews aged so did her voice which began to naturally deepen Losing her vast upper register her top notes became increasingly difficult to sing while her middle register matured into the warm golden tone for which she has become known according to Tim Wong of The Daily Telegraph 132 Musically she had always preferred singing music that was bright and sunny choosing to avoid songs that were sad or otherwise written in a minor key for fear of losing her voice in a mess of emotion She cited this as another reason for avoiding opera 132 Loss of singing voice Edit Andrews was forced to quit the Victor Victoria stage production towards the end of the Broadway run in 1997 when she developed hoarseness in her voice She subsequently underwent surgery at New York s Mount Sinai Hospital reportedly to remove non cancerous nodules from her throat 1 though she later stated the hoarseness was due to a certain kind of muscular striation that happens on the vocal cords itself the result of a strain from Victor Victoria she added I didn t have cancer I didn t have nodules I didn t have anything 133 She emerged from the surgery with permanent damage that destroyed the purity of her singing and made her speaking voice raspy In 1999 she filed a malpractice suit against the doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital including Scott Kessler and Jeffrey Libin who had operated on her throat Originally the doctors assured Andrews that she should regain her voice within six weeks but Andrews s stepdaughter Jennifer Edwards said in 1999 it s been two years and it her singing voice still hasn t returned 134 The lawsuit was settled in September 2000 for an undisclosed amount 135 Andrews admits that she has never recovered from the botched attempt to remove nodules from her vocal cords back in 1997 Her famous four octave soprano was then reduced to a fragile alto she was quoted at the time as saying I can sing the hell out of Old Man River 105 Subsequently from 2000 onwards Steven M Zeitels director of the Massachusetts General Hospital MGH Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation operated on her four times and while able to improve her speaking voice was unable to restore her singing 70 Acting credits EditMain article Julie Andrews on screen and stageAwards and honours EditMain article List of awards and nominations received by Julie Andrews In June 2022 Andrews was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award at a ceremony in Los Angeles after a two year delay due to the COVID 19 pandemic 136 In 2002 Andrews was ranked No 59 in the BBC s poll of the 100 Greatest Britons Bibliography EditAndrews has published several books mainly children s books and autobiographies under her name as well as her married names Julie Andrews Edwards and Julie Edwards Andrews Julie Home A Memoir of My Early Years Hyperion 2008 ISBN 0 7868 6565 2 Andrews Julie Home A Memoir of My Early Years at Internet Archive Hyperion 2008 Andrews Julie and Emma Walton Hamilton authors Home Work A Memoir of My Hollywood Years Hachette 2019 ISBN 9780316349253 Andrews Julie and Emma Walton Hamilton authors and Christine Davenier Illustrator Very Fairy Princess Little Brown 2010 ISBN 978 0 316 04050 1 Andrews Julie and Emma Walton Hamilton authors and James McMullan Illustrator Julie Andrews Collection of Poems Songs and Lullabies Little Brown 2009 ISBN 978 0 316 04049 5 Edwards Julie Andrews author and Judith Gwyn Brown illustrator Mandy Harper amp Row 1971 ISBN 0 06 440296 7 Edwards Julie Andrews author and Johanna Westerman illustrator Mandy 35th Anniversary Edition HarperCollins 2006 ISBN 0 06 113162 8 Edwards Julie The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles New York Harper and Row 1974 ISBN 0 00 184461 X Edwards Julie Andrews Little Bo The Story of Bonnie Boadicea Hyperion 1999 ISBN 0 7868 0514 5 several others in this series Edwards Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton Dumpy the Dumptruck Hyperion 2000 ISBN 0 7868 0609 5 several others in the Dumpy series Edwards Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton authors Gennady Spirin illustrator Simeon s Gift 2003 ISBN 0 06 008914 8 Edwards Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton Dragon Hound of Honor HarperTrophy 2005 ISBN 0 06 057121 7 Edwards Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton authors and Tony Walton illustrator The Great American Mousical HarperTrophy 2006 ISBN 0 06 057918 8 Edwards Julie Andrews Walton Hamilton Emma 2007 Thanks to You Wisdom from Mother and Child Julie Andrews Collection ISBN 978 0 06 124002 7 References Edit a b c d Dame Julie The Sound of Music BBC News 31 December 1999 Archived from the original on 9 March 2008 Retrieved 29 January 2007 Kennedy Center Honors Julie Andrews 2001 Kennedy Center Retrieved 30 March 2023 On the Scene as Julie Andrews and The Sound of Music Share the Honor of AFI Life Achievement Award IndieWire 10 June 2022 Retrieved 30 March 2023 New Dames On The Block Taylor amp Andrews Receive UK O B E Honors Playbill Retrieved 30 March 2023 Julie Andrews to Receive SAG s Life Achievement Award Playbill Retrieved 30 March 2023 O Connor John 25 October 1995 TELEVISION REVIEW Julie Andrews With Tough Edges The New York Times Retrieved 22 December 2018 With a natural voice of uncommon clarity and purity Ms Andrews was soon being billed as Britain s youngest prima donna Julie Andrews Reel Classics Archived from the original on 1 December 2007 Julie Andrews Biography and Interview achievement org American Academy of Achievement General Register Office GRO Register of Births DEC 1935 2a 435 Surrey NW Julia E Wells mmn Morris verification needed Andrews Julie 2008 Home a memoir of my early years Internet Archive New York NY Doubleday ISBN 978 0 7394 9451 6 GRO Register of Births SEP 1910 2a 51 Chertsey Barbara W Morris mmn not given verification needed GRO Register of Marriages DEC 1932 2a 190 Chertsey Edward C Wells Barbara W Morris verification needed a b c d Spindle Les 1989 Julie Andrews A Bio Bibliography Greenwood Press pp 1 2 ISBN 0 313 26223 3 a b c Windeler 1970 pp 20 21 a b c Brockes Emma 30 March 2008 Books About Julie Andrews Memoir Biography The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Archived from the original on 6 April 2011 Retrieved 3 August 2010 GRO Register of Marriages DEC 1943 1a 888 Westminster Edward V Andrews Barbara W Morris or Wells Andrews Julie 2008 Home a memoir of my early years Doubleday GRO Register of Marriages JUN 1944 2a 316 Surrey NE Edward C Wells Winifred M Birkhead GRO Register of Births JUN 1938 2a 564 Surrey NW John D Wells mmn Morris Andrews Julie 2008 Home A Memoir of My Early Years New York New York Hyperion p 39 ISBN 978 0 7868 8475 9 a b c Stirling Richard 2007 Julie Andrews An Intimate Biography Portrait ISBN 978 0 7499 5135 1 Windeler 1970 pp 22 23 White Timothy 1998 The Entertainers Billboard Books p 111 Windeler 1970 pp 23 24 Spindle p 2 suggests that Andrews began a few years of stage work with her parents in 1946 Hunt Elle 31 July 2019 Petula Clark Elvis angled for a threesome he was raring to go The Guardian Windeler 1970 pp 24 26 Boag Wally and Sands Gene Wally Boag Clown Prince of Disneyland Disney Enterprises Inc 2009 p 39 Windeler 1970 p 26 Julie who was described in the official announcement 14 October as a 13 year old coloratura soprano with the voice of an adult was the youngest solo performer ever chosen to perform before royalty at the Palladium She sang the British National Anthem She ran onto stage in front of Danny Kaye wearing a white A frame dress and begins to sing the audience join in The evening was held in the presence of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother The show was presented by Val Parnell a b Spindle p 3 a b Windeler 1970 pp 26 27 Ruhlmann William Julie Andrews Biography Archived 1 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine All Music Guide article from Legacy Recordings Jack Zipes Pauline Greenhill Kendra Magnus Johnston 2015 Fairy Tale Films Beyond Disney International Perspectives p 101 Routledge a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap Andrews Julie 1 April 2008 Home A Memoir of My Early Years Hyperion ISBN 978 0 7868 6565 9 Retrieved 23 January 2021 a b Spindle pp 4 5 Windeler pp 41 42 In Step With Julie Andrews Parade Magazine 17 October 2004 permanent dead link Interview with Rex Harrison amp Julie Andrews on Opening Night of My Fair Lady London 1958 YouTube 30 April 1958 Archived from the original on 11 December 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Nominees and Winners oscars org Retrieved 25 August 2011 Star Variety January 1968 Retrieved 25 January 2021 Adler Renata 23 October 1968 Movie Review Screen Star Arrives Julie Andrews Featured in Movie at Rivoli movies nytimes com Julie Andrews Golden Globes Retrieved 25 January 2021 Canby Vincent 24 July 1970 Screen Darling Lili Sets the Stage for Pure Comedy of Roman Gestures Cowards Gives War Views at the Carnegie Julie Andrews in Title Role at Music Hall The New York Times Retrieved 25 January 2021 Winners amp Nominees Best Original Song Motion Picture Golden Globes Retrieved 8 August 2018 Mell Ella 2005 Casting Might Have Beens A Film by Film Directory of Actors Considered for Roles Given to Others McFarland p 29 Garlen Jennifer C Graham Anissa M 2009 Kermit Culture Critical Perspectives on Jim Henson s Muppets McFarland amp Company p 218 ISBN 978 0 7864 4259 1 Pym John 1998 Time Out Film Guide Penguin Books p 521 a b Julie Andrews A Life Of Achievements Archived 8 February 2007 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