Julie Andrews, English motion-picture, stage, and musical star noted for her crystalline four-octave voice and her charm and skill as an actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring turns in the films Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965), the former of which earned her an Academy Award. In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews shares reflections on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Victor/Victoria. In Home, the number one New York Times international bestseller, Julie Andrews recounted her difficult childhood and her emergence as an acclaim. Home Work is written with a warm heart and a generous spirit. An honest attempt to make sense of an often chaotic life, Sunday Express With typical candour and a storyteller's skill. Julie Andrews is a reliable narrator and an entertaining guide through a second memoir that brings her career from Marry Poppins to Victor/Victoria (1982) - Donal O'Donoghue, RTE Guide.
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'A frank, intriguing memoir.'
--People 'Painfully shrewd, and written with real delicacy and pathos.'
--The New York Times Book Review 'Home reflects the very qualities that first made the working-class English singer a star 45 years ago: intelligence, gentle humor, and a clear, sweet, surprisingly powerful voice . Mirror cosplay album crack. . . In warmly nostalgic later chapters, the book begins to glow.'
--Entertainment Weekly 'A delightful remembrance of her own childhood, and an engrossing prelude to her cinematic career . . . Andrews is an accomplished writer who holds back nothing while adding a patina of poetry to the antics and anecdotes throughout this memoir of bittersweet backstage encounters and theatrical triumphs.'
--Publishers Weekly (starred review) 'Frank and fascinating . . . Andrews comes across as plainspoken, guilelessly charming and resoundingly tough.'
--Time In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, Julie Andrews takes her readers on a warm, moving, and often humorous journey from a difficult upbringing in war-torn Britain to the brink of international stardom in America.
'Mary Poppins'wouldn't be the timeless Disney classic it is if it weren't for its leading stars. The chemistry between acting legend Dick Van Dyke and Academy Award winner Julie Andrews was pure Disney magic, and their friendship wasn't far off either. Despite only starring in one film together, the silver screen legends took to each other immediately, so much so that they were nearly cast together again in major film. So what was Van Dyke's relationship with Andrews like off-screen?
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According to Andrews, the two 'hit it off from day one' as she told Vanity Fair. They met during dance rehearsals, and Van Dyke immediately had the 'Sound of Music'actress in stitches. 'He was dazzlingly inventive, always in a sunny mood, and he often made me roar with laughter at his antics,' she said, especially when they were filming the 'Jolly Holiday' scene. 'I performed with Mary Poppins' demure, ladylike version of the step,' Andrews explained. 'But Dick flung his legs up so high that I burst out laughing. To this day, he can still execute that step.'
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As for Van Dyke's impressions of his co-star, he was 'scared' at her perfectly tuned singing voice, so much so that it was a 'challenge' to record with her. 'One thing that surpassed Julie's spot-on instincts .. was her voice,' he said in his memoir (via the Daily Mail). 'It scared me to death. It could have been used to tune a piano. She was pitch-perfect — and I never was.'
Julie Andrews turned down 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'
Crying suns for mac. Dick Van Dyke, unsurprisingly, only had nice things to say about Julie Andrews. He described his former co-star as having 'a whimsical sense of humor,' and that he never once saw her 'get angry about anything or utter a single complaint' (via the Daily Mail).
You'd think with a co-star relationship like theirs, Van Dyke and Andrews would have been in more than one film together. As it turns out, they very nearly were. In his memoir, Van Dyke revealed that Andrews was originally meant to act alongside him in 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' — the role was taken by Sally Ann Howes. According to Van Dyke, the film's producer Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli 'desperately' wanted to cast Andrews 'after the success [they'd] enjoyed with 'Mary Poppins.'
'I can't speak for Julie's reasons, but both of us turned it down,' he explained. 'I thought the script had too many holes and unanswered questions. However, each time I said no, Cubby came back with more money.' Once the money hit over seven-figures, well, Van Dyke was officially on board with only one stipulation — that he didn't have to do a British accent. 'Not a problem. My character was suddenly an eccentric American inventor,' he said.
Ticket to ride - usa 1910 download for mac. So while the world didn't get the ultimate reunion between Van Dyke and Andrews in 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,' at least there wasn't a reprise of that questionable British accent in 'Mary Poppins.'