Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography
by: Richard Stirling
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Julie Andrews is the last of the great Hollywood musical stars, unequaled by any in her time.
In My Fair Lady, Julie Andrews had the biggest hit on Broadway. As the title character in Mary Poppins, she won an Academy Award. And, in 1965, The Sound of Music made her the most famous woman in the world and rescued Twentieth Century Fox from bankruptcy. Three years later, the disastrous Star! almost put the studio back under, and the leading lady of both films fell as spectacularly as she had risen.
Her film career seemed over.
Yet Julie Andrews survived, with what Moss Hart, director of My Fair Lady, called “that terrible British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India.”Victor/Victoria, directed by her second husband, Blake Edwards, reinvented her screen image---but its stage version in 1997 led to the devastating loss of her defining talent, her singing voice.
Against all odds, she has fought back again, with leading roles in The Princess Diaries and Shrek 2. The real story of bandy-legged little Julia Wells from Walton-on-Thames is even more extraordinary; fresh details of her family background have only recently come to light.
This is the first completely new biography of Julie Andrews as artist, wife, and mother in over thirty-five years---combining the author’s interviews with the star and his wide-ranging and riveting research. It is a frank but affectionate portrait of an enduring icon of stage and screen, who was made a Dame in the Millenium Honours List.
Once dubbed “the last of the really great broads” by Paul Newman, she was the only actress in the 2002 BBC poll The 100 Greatest Britons. But who was Dame Julie, and who is she now?
This is her story.
Julie Andrews is the last of the great Hollywood musical stars, unequaled by any in her time.
In My Fair Lady, Julie Andrews had the biggest hit on Broadway. As the title character in Mary Poppins, she won an Academy Award. And, in 1965, The Sound of Music made her the most famous woman in the world and rescued Twentieth Century Fox from bankruptcy. Three years later, the disastrous Star! almost put the studio back under, and the leading lady of both films fell as spectacularly as she had risen.
Her film career seemed over.
Yet Julie Andrews survived, with what Moss Hart, director of My Fair Lady, called “that terrible British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India.”Victor/Victoria, directed by her second husband, Blake Edwards, reinvented her screen image---but its stage version in 1997 led to the devastating loss of her defining talent, her singing voice.
Against all odds, she has fought back again, with leading roles in The Princess Diaries and Shrek 2. The real story of bandy-legged little Julia Wells from Walton-on-Thames is even more extraordinary; fresh details of her family background have only recently come to light.
This is the first completely new biography of Julie Andrews as artist, wife, and mother in over thirty-five years---combining the author’s interviews with the star and his wide-ranging and riveting research. It is a frank but affectionate portrait of an enduring icon of stage and screen, who was made a Dame in the Millenium Honours List.
Once dubbed “the last of the really great broads” by Paul Newman, she was the only actress in the 2002 BBC poll The 100 Greatest Britons. But who was Dame Julie, and who is she now?
This is her story.
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- false information
nice try but this book is chock full of errors and false information. i am a loyal andrews fan myself and reccommend her autobiography home if you want to know the real story.
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- Reasonably enjoyable
While I sort of agree with the reviewer who compared this book to an 8th grade book report, I enjoyed it nevertheless.A few observations:
1.The book borders on the hagiographic, which explains why Ms. Andrews comes across as a throughly decent woman, with no major faults to speak of, at least according to Mr. Stirling.
2.In the lives of most famous entertainers, there is a kind of "magic period", during with they are at the peak of their fame and doing whatever it ... Read More
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- Just a gift
This was a gift that was asked for. I have a cousin that loves Julie Andrews so I order for her and she's quite pleased. I'm sure this won't be the last time.
Rating: - A Fair Biography of a Fair Lady
Julie Andrews is one of my heroes.I wanted to read a biography rather than her recently published autobiography (which I have not read so cannot make a fair comparison) because other researchers tend to include things the subject might delete when writing about his/her own life.This record of her life seems very complete, maybe too much so at times, which is why I gave it only four stars.
One of the great tragedies of modern times was the botched surgery that took her singing voice. ... Read More
Rating: - Julie Andrews/ An Intimate Biography
Good, straightforward biography. Made Ms. Andrews seem down to earth and pictured her as a hardworking and very loving wife and mother. I enjoyed seeing what was behind her dazzling talent.
- false informationnice try but this book is chock full of errors and false information. i am a loyal andrews fan myself and reccommend her autobiography home if you want to know the real story.
- Reasonably enjoyableWhile I sort of agree with the reviewer who compared this book to an 8th grade book report, I enjoyed it nevertheless.A few observations:
1.The book borders on the hagiographic, which explains why Ms. Andrews comes across as a throughly decent woman, with no major faults to speak of, at least according to Mr. Stirling.
2.In the lives of most famous entertainers, there is a kind of "magic period", during with they are at the peak of their fame and doing whatever it ... Read More
- Just a giftThis was a gift that was asked for. I have a cousin that loves Julie Andrews so I order for her and she's quite pleased. I'm sure this won't be the last time.
- A Fair Biography of a Fair LadyJulie Andrews is one of my heroes.I wanted to read a biography rather than her recently published autobiography (which I have not read so cannot make a fair comparison) because other researchers tend to include things the subject might delete when writing about his/her own life.This record of her life seems very complete, maybe too much so at times, which is why I gave it only four stars.
One of the great tragedies of modern times was the botched surgery that took her singing voice. ... Read More
- Julie Andrews/ An Intimate BiographyGood, straightforward biography. Made Ms. Andrews seem down to earth and pictured her as a hardworking and very loving wife and mother. I enjoyed seeing what was behind her dazzling talent.
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