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Julie Andrews, born Julia Elizabeth Wells, was born on October 1st 1935.
She's been singing proffesionally since she was 12 years old!
You can go to youtube and find a song from her radio performance that she performed at age 12.
Julie went went from the London hippodrome stage and then to the radio and eventually on to films!
Her most famous stage performance was that of Eliza Dolittle, in "My Fair Lady."
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| Julie playing Eliza Dolittle. |
Julie's first film was called, "La Rosa di Bagdad", but she played only a minor part.
After this, Mary Poppins was her second movie.
Here is the link for the original trailer for the 1964 Mary Poppins movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWf9fP-A-U
The Sound of Music was her fourth movie, and probably the movie that most people know her by today.
In this movie she portrays the character version of the real life, Maria Von Trapp.
Academy Awards
The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards, winning in four categories.[15]
- Best Picture (WINNER)
- Best Director - Robert Wise (WINNER)
- Best Actress in a Leading Role - Julie Andrews (Nomination)
- Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Peggy Wood (Nomination)
- Best Art Direction (Nomination)
- Best Costume Design (Nomination)
- Best Sound (James Corcoran, Fred Hynes) (WINNER)
- Best Scoring of Music-adaptation or treatment (WINNER)
- Best Cinematography (Nomination)
- Best Film Editing (WINNER)
Julie Andrews continued her film and stage career until the 1990's when, after having throat surgeries, Andrews lost her beautiful singing voice. Here is some information on it..."Andrews was forced to quit the show towards the end of the Broadway run in 1997 when she developed vocal problems. She subsequently underwent surgery to remove non-cancerous nodules from her throat and was left unable to sing.[2] In 1999 she filed a malpractice suit against the doctors at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, including Dr. Scott Kessler and Dr. Jeffrey Libin, who had operated on her throat. Originally, the doctors assured Andrews that she should regain her voice within six weeks, but Andrews' stepdaughter Jennifer Edwards said in 1999 "it's been two years, and it [her singing voice] still hasn't returned."[40] The lawsuit was settled in September 2000."
Isn't that terrible?
The next time Julie Andrews sang publicly was in the movie The Princess Diaries 2, where she played the queen of a fictional country called Ginovia!
Julie, now, is also an author of several childrens books.
Happy (late) Birthday Julie Andrews!
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| A very young Julie! |
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| With her new husband, Tony Walton, on her wedding day! |
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| With Audrey Hepburn, who played the film version of Eliza Dolittle. |
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| In Eloise at the Plaza. |
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| With daughter, Emma Walton. |
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| With friend and Marry poppins co-star, Dick van Dyke! |
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| MaRy PoPpInS! |
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| Again with Dick van Dyke, many years later. |
I love Julie Andrews!
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Happy Late birthday star!
Happy (late) Birthday Julie!
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I wish I could've seen the "My Fair Lady" play!
Julie is amazing! :) :) :)
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Oh, I simply adore Julie Andrews, so so much. :) Even though I love Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, half of me wishes Julie had been in the movie version, since she actually sang and Audrey didn't. And it's so tragic about her voice. But she's incredible and oh-so-talented.
ReplyDeleteIt's great to see another lover of musicals! They are such a great love of my life...I truly don't understand people that don't like them.