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A 'SUPERCALIFRAGILISTIC' Morning with Dame Julie Andrews
Presented by Julie Andrews
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Friday, October 26,
Almost everyone is familiar with two of the most positive role models in film – Mary Poppins and Maria von Trapp. While Dame Julie Andrews is well known for her portrayal of these two outstanding women, few may realize the extent to which Dame Julie lives up to the ideals and courage exhibited in these two roles. Most of us are very familiar with Julie Andrews the performer – but we may not be as familiar with Julie Andrews Edwards, author and advocate.
Born into a theatrical family and with enormous talent, it is no surprise that Julie’s professional career took off at a very young age. She was just twelve years old when she made her stage debut in the production of “Starlight Roof” at the London Hippodrome. Her yearlong performance at this venue garnered the high profile attention of Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret and launched what can only be described as an enormously prolific and successful career.
Julie has achieved the highest professional acknowledgements in the performing arts, amongst which were
Dame Julie Andrews
Let&#;s go back to the beginning. Could you tell us about Walton-on-Thames? What was that like when you were growing up?
Julie Andrews: Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, which is where I was born, is about 20 miles south-southwest of London, and when I was very young it was just a country stop on the railway line and it is now part of Greater London and very much suburbia. And I know the ins and outs of it, but there are very few places that you recognize in terms of the way it used to be. But, it&#;s a very sweet place. It&#;s sort of the middle village between a very up-market village and a very low, poverty village, at least in the early days.
What did your parents do?
Julie Andrews: My real father was a school teacher. He taught practical crafts and English and math. My mother remarried when I was about four or five years old, so I then went to live with my mum and stepfather, and he was a fine tenor, he had a singing voice. He was from Canada, from Toronto. He joined forces in more ways than one with my mother in that she was a really wonderful pianist and probably should have been a performing concert pianist but, in fact, due to circumstances and the wa
Julie Andrews' life and career in pictures: to
Not all actors have the chance to play a role that becomes an integral part of popular culture, but the legendary Julie Andrews has bagged many.
Kicking off her career in Broadway it wasn't long before the star hit the big screens and became internationally renowned for her talent as both an actress and a singer.
From Sound of Music to Mary Poppins, and of course Princess Diaries, Andrews has become a staple of many of our childhoods.
She's a household name – but if it wasn't for a decision from her mother, she'd be going be a different name altogether.
"[Julia] is actually my name, too," the actress told Julia Louis-Dreyfuss in a June interview.
"I was born and christened Julia and it was changed to Julie when my mother remarried Ted Andrews.
"Julia Andrews didn't roll off the tongue as well as Julie, so they changed it."
Read on to take a walk through the screen icon's life in pictures.
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Early Life
Julia Andrews was born on 1st October , Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England to parents Barbara Ward Wells and Edward Charles Wells, a teacher of metalwork and woodwork. Her parents divorced after the outbreak of World War II.
She grew up with her father, Edward, and brothers John in Surrey. She belonged to a low-income family and lived in a slum area of London when she was a child. Later, her parents improved their career and moved to better surrounding in Beckenham and then in Hersham.
Her step-father sponsored her education at the Cone-Ripman School, an independent arts educational school in London and trained with Madame Lilian Stiles-Allen, a concert soprano and voice instructor. Later, she attended the Woodbrook School, in Beckenham.
Career
Julia made her first stage performance with her mother and step-father at her early age in , and she continued it for next two years. During the period, she got an opportunity to meet Val Parnell, a British television managing director and presenter, actor and theatrical impresario.
Then she made a solo debut in London Hippodrome, singing the difficult aria, Je Suis Titania from Mig
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