Julie Andrews
An Intimate Biography
Stirling, Richard
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
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 authors 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.
BOOK REVIEWS
Julie Andrews is, quite simply, a phenomenon. She has probably brought more joy to more people than any other star of her generation.---Richard Attenborough
A very well written, meticulously researched, gripping account of Andrews extraordinary life and career. . . . Stirling does a superb job of detailing his subjects rise to major stardom. . . . Full of information that may not be known even to some of Andrews staunchest fans . . . very frank in assessing Andrews flops and disappointments as well as her hits. . . . This excellent work is probably as intimate as any biography of Julie Andrews we can ever hope to read.---Michael Portantiere, TheaterMania.com
Impressively thorough . . . Stirling compiles an absorbingly extensive study, with glossy photographs and lively quotes bringing the pages alive with the sound of a much-loved musical star.---Evening Standard (London)
Intelligent and engrossing.---Roger Lewis, The Mail on Sunday
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0312380259
ISBN(13-digit): 9780312380250
Dewey Decimal: 791.402/8092
Library of Congress: 2008002192
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 376
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