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An "intelligent and engrossing" biography of the incomparable star of stage and screen, revealing the determination she brought to bear over every obstacle (
Mail on Sunday).
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 movie career seemed to be 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 fought back again, with roles in The Princess Diaries, Bridgerton, and other productions. 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.
"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
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 movie career seemed to be 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 fought back again, with roles in The Princess Diaries, Bridgerton, and other productions. 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.
"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
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eBook ISBN
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Music BiographiesTable of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Once and Future Star
- 1: Weather and Tide Permitting
- 2: The Other Side of the Tracks
- 3: America
- 4: The Fairest Lady
- 5: Tony
- 6: Tiptoe through the Cut Glass
- 7: Flying
- 8: The Sound of Stardom
- 9: On the Couch
- 10: Blake
- 11: The Rhinestone Follies
- 12: From Bad to Worse
- 13: Out in the Cold
- 14: Singing for her Supper
- 15: Back with a Vengeance
- 16: Matters of Life and Death
- 17: Curtain Call
- 18: Indian Summer
- 19: Grande Dame
- Postscript
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
- Photo Section