Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews
, DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells
; [1] 1 October 1935) [2] is a British film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honours. Andrews was a former British child actress and singer who made her Broadway debut in 1954 with The Boy Friend
, and rose to prominence starring in other musicals such as My Fair Lady
and Camelot
, and in musical films such as Mary Poppins
(1964) and The Sound of Music
(1965): the roles for which she is still best-known. Her voice spanned four octaves until it was damaged by a throat operation in 1998.
Andrews had a major revival of her film career in the 2000s, in family films such as The Princess Diaries
(2001), its sequel The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
(2004), and the Shrek
animated films (2004–2007). In 2003 Andrews revisited her first Broadway success, this time as a stage director, with a revival of The Boy Friend
at the Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, New York (and later at the Goodspeed Opera House, in East Haddam, Connecticut in 2005).
Andrews is also an author of children's books, and in 2008 she published an autobiography, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
.
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Early life
Andrews was born
Julia Elizabeth Wells
on 1 October 1935 in
Walton-on-Thames,
Surrey, United Kingdom. Her mother, Barbara Wells (née Morris), was married to Edward C. "Ted" Wells, a teacher of metal and woodworking, but Julie was conceived as a result of an affair her mother had with a family friend.
[3] [4]
With the outbreak of World War II, Barbara and Ted Wells went their separate ways. Ted Wells assisted with evacuating children to Surrey during
the Blitz while Barbara joined Ted Andrews in entertaining the troops through the good offices of the
Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). Barbara and Ted Wells were soon divorced; they both remarried—Barbara to Ted Andrews in 1939, and Ted Wells to a former hairstylist working a lathe at a war factory that employed them both in
Hinchley Wood, Surrey.
[5]
Julia Wells lived briefly with her father and her brother John Wells in Surrey. About 1940, her father sent her to live with her mother and stepfather, who (her father felt) would be better able to provide for his talented daughter's artistic training. According to her 2008 autobiography "Home", while Julia had been used to calling Ted Andrews "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. Julia disliked this change.
The Andrews family was "very poor and we lived in a bad slum area of London", Andrews recalled, adding, "That was a very black period in my life." In addition, according to Andrews's 2008 memoir, her mother and stepfather were alcoholics. Ted physically abused Julie's brother and twice, while drunk, made advances on his stepdaughter, resulting in Julie putting a lock on her door.
[6] [7] But as the stage career of Ted and Barbara Andrews improved, they were able to afford to move to better surroundings, first to
Beckenham, and then, as the war ended, back to Andrews' home town of Walton-on-Thames. The Andrews took up residence at The Old Meuse, a house where Andrews' maternal grandmother happened to have served as a maid.
Andrews' father sponsored lessons for his daughter, first at the
Cone-Ripman School, an independent arts educational school in London, then with the famous concert soprano and voice instructor
Lilian Stiles-Allen. "She had an enormous influence on me", Andrews said of Stiles-Allen, adding, "She was my third mother -- I've got more mothers and fathers than anyone in the world." In her 2008 autobiography
Home
, Andrews denies having
perfect pitch.
[8] After Cone-Ripman School, Andrews continued her academic education at the nearby
Woodbrook School, a local state school in Beckenham.
Andrews performed spontaneously and unbilled on stage with her parents for about two years beginning in 1945. "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. She would stand on a beer crate to reach the microphone and sing while her mother played piano, sometimes a solo or as a duet with her stepfather. "It must have been ghastly, but it seemed to go down all right."
[9] [10]
Andrews got her big break when her stepfather introduced her to
Val Parnell, whose
Moss Empires controlled prominent venues in London. 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 the Hippodrome for one year.
[11]
On 1 November 1948, Andrews became the youngest solo performer ever to be seen in a
Royal Command Variety Performance, at the
London Palladium, where she performed along with
Danny Kaye, the
Nicholas Brothers, and the comedy team
George and Bert Bernard for members of King George VI's family.
[12] [13]
Andrews followed her parents into radio and television.
[14] She reportedly made her television debut on the BBC program
RadiOlympia Showtime
on 8 October 1949.
[15] She garnered considerable fame throughout the United Kingdom for her work on the BBC radio comedy show
Educating Archie
; she was a cast member from 1950 to 1952.
Andrews appeared on
West End Theatre at the
London Casino, where she played one year each as Princess Balroulbadour in
Aladdin
and the egg in
Humpty Dumpty
. She also appeared on provincial stages across United Kingdom in
Jack and the Beanstalk
and
Little Red Riding Hood
, as well as starring as the lead role in
Cinderella
.
At the age of 14, in 1950, Andrews was asked to sing at a party, and it was then that she learned that Ted Wells was not her biological father.
[16] [4]
1954–1962: Early career
On 30 September 1954, on the eve of her 19th birthday, Andrews made her Broadway debut portraying "Polly Browne" in the already highly successful London musical
The Boy Friend
.
To the critics, Andrews was the stand-out performer in the show.
[18] In November 1955, Andrews was signed to appear with
Bing Crosby in what is regarded as the first made-for-television movie,
High Tor
.
[19]
Andrews auditioned for a part in the
Richard Rodgers musical
Pipe Dream
. Although Rodgers wanted her for
Pipe Dream
, he advised her to take the part in the
Frederick Loewe and
Alan Jay Lerner musical
My Fair Lady
if it was offered to her. In 1956, she appeared in
My Fair Lady
as
Eliza Doolittle to
Rex Harrison's
Henry Higgins. Rodgers was so impressed with Andrews' talent that, concurrent with her run in
My Fair Lady
, she was featured in the
Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical,
Cinderella
.
Cinderella
was broadcast live on
CBS on 31 March 1957, under the musical direction of
Alfredo Antonini and attracted an estimated 107 million viewers.
[20] [21]
Andrews married the
set designer
Tony Walton on 10 May 1959 in Weybridge, Surrey. They had first met in 1948 when Andrews was appearing at the London Casino in the show
Humpty Dumpty
. The couple filed for a divorce on November 14, 1967.
[22]
Between 1958 and 1962, she appeared on such specials as CBS-TV's
The Fabulous Fifties
and NBC-TV's
The Broadway of Lerner & Loewe
. In addition to guest starring on
The Ed Sullivan Show
, she 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 a CBS special with
Carol Burnett which was taped at
Carnegie Hall in New York.
In 1960, Lerner and Loewe again cast her in a period musical, as
Queen Guinevere in
Camelot
, with
Richard Burton and newcomer
Robert Goulet. Meanwhile, movie studio head
Jack Warner decided Andrews lacked sufficient name recognition for her casting in the film version of
My Fair Lady
; Eliza was played by the established film actress
Audrey Hepburn instead. As Warner later recalled, the decision was easy. "In my business I have to know who brings people and their money to a movie theatre box office. Audrey Hepburn had never made a financial flop."
[23]
1963–1967: Career peak
Andrews played the title role in
Disney's
Mary Poppins
.
Walt Disney had seen a performance of
Camelot
and thought Andrews would be perfect for the role of a British nanny who is "practically perfect in every way!" Andrews initially declined due to pregnancy, but Disney politely insisted, saying, "We'll wait for you" (confirmed by 40th anniversary Mary Poppins DVD Walt Disney Pictures 2004). Andrews and her husband headed back to the United Kingdom in September 1962 to await the birth of daughter Emma Katherine Walton, who was born in London two months later. Andrews and family returned to America in 1963 and began the film.
As a result of her performance in
Mary Poppins
, Andrews won the 1964
Academy Award for Best Actress and the 1965
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. She and her
Mary Poppins
co-stars also 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."
[24]
In 1964, she appeared opposite
James Garner in
The Americanization of Emily
(1964), which she has described as her favourite film.
[25] In 1966, Andrews won her second
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and was nominated for the 1965
Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as
Maria von Trapp in
The Sound of Music
.
After completing
The Sound Of Music
, Andrews appeared as a guest star on the NBC-TV variety series
The Andy Williams Show
, which gained her an Emmy nomination. She followed this television appearance with an Emmy Award-winning color 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 with
Paul Newman in the
Hitchcock thriller
Torn Curtain
. By the end of 1967, Andrews had appeared in the television special,
Cinderella
; the biggest Broadway musical of its time,
My Fair Lady
; the largest-selling long-playing album, the original cast recording of
My Fair Lady
; the biggest hit in Disney's history,
Mary Poppins
; the highest grossing movie of 1966,
Hawaii
[26]; the biggest and second biggest hits in Universal's history,
Thoroughly Modern Millie
and
Torn Curtain
; and the biggest hit in 20th Century Fox's history and the most successful film of all time,
The Sound of Music
.
[27]
1968–2001: Mid-career
Andrews appeared in
Star!
, a 1968 biopic of
Gertrude Lawrence, and
Darling Lili
(1970), co-starring
Rock Hudson and directed by her second husband,
Blake Edwards (they married in 1969). She made only two other films in the 1970s,
The Tamarind Seed
and
10
.
Together Edwards and Andrews adopted two daughters; Amy in 1974 and Joanna in 1975. Edwards already had another daughter, Jennifer, and a son Geoffrey who were 3 and 5 years older than Emma, Andrews' first daughter.
Andrews continued working on television. In 1969, she shared the spotlight with calypso 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 then guest-starred on
The Muppet Show
in 1977. Andrews again appeared with the Muppets on a CBS-TV special, Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring, which aired in March, 1978.
In 1981, she appeared in Blake Edwards's
S.O.B.
(1981), in which she played Sally Miles, a character who agrees to "show my boobies" in a scene in the film-within-a-film.
In 1983, Andrews was chosen as the
Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year by the
Harvard University theatrical society
[28]. The roles of Victoria Grant and Count Victor Grezhinski in the film
Victor/Victoria
earned Andrews the 1983
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, as well as a nomination for the 1982
Academy Award for Best Actress, her third Oscar nomination.
[29]
In December 1987, Andrews starred in an ABC holiday special,
Julie Andrews: The Sound Of Christmas
, which won 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.
In 1991, Andrews made her television dramatic debut in the ABC made-for-TV movie,
Our Sons
, co-starring
Ann-Margret.
In the summer of 1992, she starred in her first television sitcom,
Julie
, which aired on
ABC and co-starred
James Farentino. In December, 1992, Andrews hosted the
NBC holiday special,
Christmas In Washington
.
In 1993, she starred in a limited run at the
Manhattan Theatre Club, of 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 on 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.
[30]
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.
In 1999, Andrews filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the doctors at New York's
Mount Sinai Hospital, including Scott Kessler, 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."
[31]
Later that year, Andrews was reunited with James Garner for the CBS made-for-TV movie,
One Special Night
, which aired in November 1999.
In the 2000 New Year's Honours, she was made a Dame Commander of the
Order of the British Empire (DBE). She also appears at #59 on the 2002 List of "
100 Greatest Britons" sponsored by the
BBC and chosen by the public.
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).
2001–present: Career revival
In 2001, Andrews appeared in
The Princess Diaries
, her first Disney film since 1964's
Mary Poppins
. She starred as Queen Clarisse Marie Renaldi and reprised the role in a sequel,
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
(2004). In
The Princess Diaries 2
, Andrews sang on film for the first time since her throat surgery. The song, "Your Crowning Glory", was set in a limited range of an octave to accommodate Andrews' recovering voice.
[32] 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."
[
]
Andrews continued her association with Disney when she appeared as Nanny in two 2003 made-for-television movies 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. The same year, Andrews 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.
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 and recording narration or appearing at several events at the park.
In 2004, Andrews performed the voice of Queen Lillian in the animated blockbuster Shrek 2
(2004), reprising the role for its sequel, Shrek the Third
(2007). Later in 2007, she narrated Enchanted
, a live-action Disney musical comedy that both poked fun and paid homage to classic Disney films such as Mary Poppins
.
In January 2007, she 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. She published Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
, which she characterised as "part one" of her autobiography, on 1 April 2008. [33] Home
chronicles her early years in UK'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.
In July through early August 2008, Andrews hosted Julie Andrews' The Gift of Music
, a short tour of the United States [34] where she sang various Rodgers and Hammerstein songs and symphonised her recently published book, Simeon's Gift
. These were the first public singing performances in a dozen years, due to her failed vocal cord surgery. [35]
On May 8, 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. Receiving the award, she remarked, "Go Bruins. Beat 'SC ... strike up the band to celebrate every one of those victories."
Status as a gay and lesbian icon
Julie Andrews has long had something of a dual image, being both a family-friendly icon and an icon for gays and lesbians. According to cultural studies scholar Brett Farmer, she "... is notable as one of the few divas to enjoy a parallel popularization across both gay and lesbian reading formations." [36] Andrews herself has acknowledged her strange status, commenting that "I'm that odd mixture of, on the one hand, being a gay icon and, on the other, having grandmas and parents grateful I'm around to be a babysitter for their kids..." [37] She has frequently appeared as a formative presence and signifier in narratives of homosexual identity, notably in The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire
[38], Does Freddy Dance
[39] and Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies
[40], and in May 2007, ranked 25th in a major poll ranking top gay icons.
Recent gender/cultural studies writers such as Stacy Wolf and Peter Kemp [41] have argued for a different reading of the image projected by her two most famous films, Mary Poppins
and The Sound of Music
, as that of a transgressive, subversive and life-changing force, rather than a sugary nanny committed to keeping the traditional status quo. Stacy Wolf's book, A Problem Like Maria-- Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical
[42], analyzes Andrews' unique performance style (alongside stars such as Mary Martin and Ethel Merman) and devotes an entire chapter to The Sound of Music
, studying it within a queer feminist context, and shedding light on its importance among lesbian spectators.
Acting career
Films
Year
| Film
| Role
| Notes
|
1949
| La Rosa di Bagdad
| Princess Zeila
| voice
|
1964
| Mary Poppins
| Mary Poppins
| Academy Award for Best Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
|
The Americanization of Emily
| Emily Barham
|
|
1965
| Salzburg Sight and Sound
| Herself
| short subject
|
The Sound of Music
| Maria
| Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
|
1966
| Torn Curtain
| Dr. Sarah Louise Sherman
|
|
Hawaii
| Jerusha Bromley
|
|
1967
| Think Twentieth
| Herself
| short subject
|
Thoroughly Modern Millie
| Millie Dillmount
|
|
1968
| Star!
| Gertrude Lawrence
|
|
1970
| Darling Lili
| Lili Smith (Schmidt)
|
|
1971
| The Moviemakers
| Herself (uncredited)
| short subject
|
1972
| Julie
| Herself
| documentary
|
1974
| The Tamarind Seed
| Judith Farrow
|
|
1979
| 10
| Samantha Taylor
|
|
1980
| Little Miss Marker
| Amanda
|
|
1981
| S.O.B.
| Sally Miles
|
|
1982
| Victor/Victoria
| Victor/Victoria
| Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Academy Award nomination
|
Trail of the Pink Panther
| Charwoman
| uncredited
|
1983
| The Man Who Loved Women
| Marianna
|
|
1986
| That's Life!
| Gillian Fairchild
|
|
Duet for One
| Stephanie Anderson
|
|
1991
| A Fine Romance
| Mrs. Pamela Piquet
| Cin cin
– USA title
|
2000
| Relative Values
| Felicity Marshwood
|
|
2001
| The Princess Diaries
| Queen Clarisse Renaldi
|
|
2002
| Unconditional Love
| Herself
| performer: Getting to Know You
|
2003
| Eloise at Christmastime
| Nanny
|
|
2004
| Shrek 2
| Queen Lillian
| voice
|
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
| Queen Clarisse Renaldi
|
|
2007
| Shrek the Third
| Queen Lillian
| voice
|
Enchanted
| Narrator
| voice
|
2010
| Tooth Fairy
| Lili
|
Shrek Forever After
| Queen Lillian
| voice
|
Despicable Me
| TBA
| voice
|
Television appearances
Year
| Title
| Role
| Notes
|
1956
| Ford Star Jubilee
| Lise
| High Tor
|
1957
| Cinderella
| Cinderella
|
|
1962
| Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall
| Herself
|
|
1965
| The Julie Andrews Show
| Host
|
|
1969
| A World in Music
| Herself
| An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte
|
1971
| Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center
| Herself
|
|
1972–1973
| The Julie Andrews Hour
| Host
|
|
1973
| Julie on Sesame Street
| Herself
|
|
1974
| Julie and Dick at Covent Garden
| Herself
|
|
Julie and Jackie: How Sweet It Is
| Herself
|
|
1975
| Julie: My Favorite Things
| Herself
|
1978
| Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring
| Herself – host
|
|
1987
| Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas
| Herself
|
|
1989
| Julie & Carol: Together Again
| Herself
|
|
1990
| Julie Andrews in Concert
| Herself
|
|
1991
| Our Sons
| Audrey Grant
| aka Too Little, Too Late
|
1992
| Julie
| Julie Carlisle
| Series cancelled after 3 months
|
1993
| Sound of Orchestra
|
|
1999
| One Special Night
| Catherine
|
|
2001
| On Golden Pond
| Ethel Thayer
|
|
| Thomas and Friends
| Old Slow Coach
| voice
|
2003
| Eloise at the Plaza
| Nanny
|
|
Eloise at Christmastime
| Nanny
|
2009
| Great Performances: "From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2009"
| Herself
| Narrator / Host, succeeding Walter Cronkite
|
Stage appearances
Year
| Title
| Role
| Notes
|
1954
| The Boy Friend
| Polly
|
|
1956
| My Fair Lady
| Eliza Doolittle
| Tony Award nominated
|
1961
| Camelot
| Queen Guinevere
| Tony Award nominated
|
1993
| Putting It Together
| Amy
|
|
1995
| Victor/Victoria
| Victor/Victoria
| Tony Award nominated (nomination declined)
|
Honours
Year
| Award
| Category
| Result
| For
|
1955
| Theatre World Award
| Outstanding Broadway Debut
| Win
| The Boy Friend
|
1957
| Tony Award
| Best Actress in a Musical
| Nominated
| My Fair Lady
|
1957
| Emmy Award
| Best Actress in a Single Performance – Lead or Support
| Nominated
| Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
(CBS)
|
1961
| Tony Award
| Best Actress in a Musical
| Nominated
| Camelot
|
1964
| Academy Award
| Best Actress
| Win
| Mary Poppins
|
1964
| Golden Globe
| Best Actress – Musical or Comedy
| Win
| Mary Poppins
|
1964
| BAFTA
| Most Promising Newcomer
| Win
| Mary Poppins
|
1964
| Laurel Awards
| Musical Performance, Female
| Win
| Mary Poppins
|
1964
| Grammy Awards
| Best Recording For Children
| Win
| Mary Poppins (Album)
|
1964–1965
| Emmy Award
| Individual Achievements in Entertainment (Actors and Performers)
| Nominated
| The Andy Williams Show
|
1965
| Academy Award
| Best Actress
| Nominated
| The Sound of Music
|
1965
| Golden Globe
| Best Actress – Musical or Comedy
| Win
| The Sound of Music
|
1965
| BAFTA
| Best British Actress
| Nominated
| The Sound of Music
|
1965
| Laurel Awards
| Musical Performance, Female
| Win
| The Sound of Music
|
1966
| BAFTA
| Best British Actress
| Nominated
| The Americanization of Emily
|
1967
| Golden Globe
| Best Actress – Musical or Comedy
| Nominated
| Thoroughly Modern Millie
|
1967
| Golden Globe
| Henrietta Award – World Film Favorite – Female
| Win
|
1967
| Laurel Awards
| Female Comedy Performance
| Win
| Thoroughly Modern Millie
|
1967
| Laurel Awards
| Female Star
| Win
|
1968
| Golden Globe
| Best Actress – Musical or Comedy
| Nominated
| Star!
|
1968
| Golden Globe
| Henrietta Award – World Film Favorite – Female
| Win
|
1970
| Golden Globe
| Best Actress – Musical or comedy
| Nominated
| Darling Lili
|
1972
| Emmy Award
| Outstanding Single Program – Variety or Musical – Variety and Popular Music
| Nominated
| Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center
|
1973
| Golden Globes Awards
| Best Motion Picture Actress – Musical/Comedy
| Nominated
| The Julie Andrews Hour
|
1973
| Emmy Awards
| Outstanding Variety Musical Series
| Win
| The Julie Andrews Hour
|
1979
| Golden Globe
| Best actress – Musical or Comedy
| Nominated
| 10
|
1980–1981
| Emmy Award
| Individual Achievement in Children's Programming (Performers)
| Nominated
| Julie Andrews' Invitation to the Dance with Rudolph Nureyev (The CBS Festival of Lively Arts For Young People)
|
1982
| Academy Award
| Best Actress
| Nominated
| Victor/Victoria
|
1982
| Golden Globe
| Best Actress – Musical or Comedy
| Win
| Victor/Victoria
|
1983
| Hasty Pudding Theatricals
| Woman of the Year
| Win
|
1983
| People's Choice Award
| Film Acting
| Win
|
1986
| Golden Globe
| Best Actress – Musical or Comedy
| Nominated
| That's Life!
|
1986
| Golden Globe
| Best Actress – Drama
| Nominated
| Duet for One
|
1995
| Emmy Awards
| Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program
| Nominated
| The Sound of Julie Andrews
|
1996
| Tony Award
| Best Actress in a Musical
| Nominated
| Victor/Victoria
|
1996
| Grammy Award
| Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance
| Nominated
| "Broadway: The Music Of Richard Rodgers"
|
2001
| Kennedy Center Honors
| Kennedy Center Honoree
| Win
|
2001
| Society of Singers
| Society of Singers Life Achievement
| Win
| Lifetime Achievement
|
2001
| Donostia Award
| San Sebastian International Film Festival
| Win
| Lifetime Achievement
|
2004
| Emmy Awards
| Supporting Actress, Miniseries or a Movie
| Nominated
| Eloise at Christmastime
|
2005
| Emmy Awards
| Outstanding Nonfiction Series
| Win
| Broadway: The American Musical
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2006
| Screen Actors Guild
| Life Achievement Award
| Win
| Lifetime Achievement
|
2009
| UCLA George and Ira Gershwin Award
| Lifetime Musical Achievement
| Win
| Lifetime Musical Achievement
|
Chart Sources: [43]
Bibliography
Andrews has published books under her name as well as the pen names Julie Andrews Edwards and Julie Edwards.
- Andrews, Julie. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
(2008) Hyperion ISBN 0786865652
- Edwards, Julie Andrews (Author) and Johanna Westerman (Illustrator). . HarperTrophy 1989. ISBN 0064402967.
- Edwards, Julie. . New York: Harper and Row. 1974. ISBN 000184461X.
- Edwards, Julie Andrews. . Hyperion, 1999. ISBN 0-7868-0514-5. (several others in this series.)
- Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton. . Hyperion, 2000. ISBN 0-7868-0609-5. (several others in the Dumpy series.)
- Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton, (Authors). Gennady Spirin (Illustrator). . 2003. ISBN 0-06-008914-8.
- Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton. . HarperTrophy, 2005. ISBN 0-06-057121-7.
- Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton (Authors) and Tony Walton (Illustrator). . HarperTrophy, 2006. ISBN 0-06-057918-8.
- Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton.. Julie Andrews Collection, 2007. ISBN 0061240028.
References
- ''Julie Andrews''. Reel Classics.
- ''Dame Julie: The sound of music''. 31 December 1999. Retrieved 29 January 2007.
- Julie Andrews: my secret father - Times Online
- Spindle, Les. ''Julie Andrews: A Bio-Bibliography''. Greenwood Press (1989)] ISBN 0313262233. pp. 1-2.
- Windeler (1970), pp 20-21
- March 30, 2008 ''NY Times'' review of ''Home''
- Interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, aired April 7, 2008
- Windeler (1970), pp 22-23
- Windeler (1970), pp 23-24
- Spindle, p. 2, suggests that Andrews began a few years of stage work with her parents in 1946.
- Windeler (1970), pp 24-26
- 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."
- Spindle, p. 3
- Windeler (1970), pp 26-27.
- Ruhlmann, William. ''Julie Andrews Biography''. All-Music Guide article from Legacy Recordings.
- [">Windeler (1970), pp 20-21
- Spindle, Les. ''Julie Andrews: A Bio-Bibliography''. Greenwood Press (1989)] ISBN 0313262233. pp. 1-2.
- Spindle, pp. 4-5.
- Windeler, pp. 41-42.
- Gans, Andrew. "Julie Andrews 'Cinderella' to Air on PBS in December". Playbill News. 6 October 2004.
- Haberman, Irving. "The Theatre World Brings A Few Musical and a Stage Success to Television This Week". ''The New York Times'', 31 March 1957.
- Spindle, p. 14.
- My Fair Lady (1964) at Reel Classics
- ''Mary Poppins'' 40th Anniversary Edition DVD.
- Blank, Ed. ''Andrews as Maria a result of 'happy circumstances' ''. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. 17 November 2005.
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- ''Times Online's'' 2005 review of Andrews' career
- http://www.hastypudding.org/pages/show/pastmoywoy.shtml
- ''Julie Andrews: A Life Of Achievements''. CBS News. 26 January 2007. Retrieved 29 January 2007.
- [1] ''Julieandrews.co.uk'' Retrieved on 04-19-07.
- ''Andrews sues over lost voice''. BBC News. 15 December 1999. Retrieved 29 January 2007.
- ''Singing comeback for Dame Julie''. 19 March 2004. Retrieved 10 February 2008.
- Amazon.com listing. Retrieved on 2007-12-16.
- http://www.julieandrewscollection.com/sitev2/promo.php
- http://cbs2.com/video/?id=72185@kcbs.dayport.com
- Farmer, Brett. "Julie Andrews Made Me Gay." Camera Obscura. 22: 2, 2007: 134-143
- Brockes, Emma: "Thoroughly Modern Julie", ''The Guardian'', Oct 14, 2004
- Kostenbaum, Wayne. The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality and the Mystery of Desire. (New York: Poseidon, 1993)
- Scanlan, Dick. Does Freddy Dance (Boston: Alyson, 1995)
- Horrigan, Patrick E. Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999)
- Kemp, Peter. "How Do You Solve a 'Problem' Like Maria von Poppins," in Musicals--Hollywood and Beyond, ed. Bill Marshall and Robynn Stilwell (Exeter: Intellect Books, 2000)
- Wolf, Stacy. A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002)
- Spindle, pp. 123-29