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The definitive and enthralling biography of one of Britain greatest musical stars, Julie Andrews.

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Julie Andrews is the last of the great Hollywood musical stars - her extraordinary career spans more than forty years. Her first film, Mary Poppins, was Disney's most successful film, and in 1965 The Sound of Music rescued Twentieth Century Fox from bankruptcy. Three years later, Star! almost put the studio back under, and the leading lady of both films fell as spectacularly as she had risen.But Julie Andrews is nothing if not a survivor; and despite many setbacks - including the tragedy of losing her singing voice in 1997 after a botched operation - she's still a performer, recently starring in Shrek and The Princess Diaries. Richard Stirling's deeply researched biography - based on many years of contact with Julie - is a frank but affectionate portrait of an enduring icon of stage and screen.

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A deeply researched biography of the last of the great Hollywood musical stars, based on extensive interviews. It reveals the heartbreaks and setbacks in Julie's life as well as the triumphs, in her career that spans more than 40 years. From Mary Poppins to her recent work in Shrek and The Princess Diaries, it's a frank and affectionate portrait of an icon.

Author Biography

Richard Stirling is an actor who has appeared many times on television and on screen - including parts in Great Expectations, The Secret Agent and Mrs Dalloway. He has interviewed Julie Andrews for magazines several times over the years, and curated a film tribute to her at the National Film Theatre in London for her 70th birthday in 2005. He lives in London.

Review

"'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 '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' London Lite"

Kirkus US Review

The squeaky-clean story of Hollywood's ultimate nanny.Stirling charts the life and career of Julie Andrews (born 1935) with a wealth of detail and an agreeably light tone that suits the family-entertainment doyenne. There are no sexual indiscretions here, no sordid drug interludes or bouts with the bottle. The reader is left with the details of a career marked by spectacular early success followed by a long fallow period, an amicable divorce and happy second marriage, a botched throat operation and Andrews's attempts to escape her goody-goody image - none of it exactly gripping material. The actress is depicted as a quintessentially English trouper: reserved, stoic and determined to get on with the show. She could not escape her image, ultimately, because she embodied it so completely. The author refers to her at points as an "automaton," perhaps venting frustration over so unjuicy a subject. Stirling quotes playwright Christopher Durang, who remarked, "I almost don't have any good Julie Andrews stories because she's just so nice and easy to be around." ("Tell me about it," one imagines the biographer muttering to himself.) Early chapters on Andrews's childhood career as a music-hall performer are of some period interest, and Stirling adroitly conveys the excitement engendered by her explosive entry into the American consciousness with the show-business hat trick of My Fair Lady on Broadway and Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music on film. She would never equal these early triumphs, appearing in some unsuitable roles in a series of flops conceived by her second husband, film writer and director Blake Edwards. At this point, the book becomes a slog through the career setbacks of a talented but fundamentally uninteresting personality who perseveres with grace and good humor.Solid, decent, likable and a bit dull - rather like its subject. (Kirkus Reviews)

Long Description

Julie Andrews is the last of the great Hollywood musical stars - her extraordinary career spans more than forty years. Her first film, Mary Poppins, was Disney's most successful film, and in 1965 The Sound of Music rescued Twentieth Century Fox from bankruptcy. Three years later, Star! almost put the studio back under, and the leading lady of both films fell as spectacularly as she had risen.But Julie Andrews is nothing if not a survivor; and despite many setbacks - including the tragedy of losing her singing voice in 1997 after a botched operation - she's still a performer, recently starring in Shrek and The Princess Diaries. Richard Stirling's deeply researched biography - based on many years of contact with Julie - is a frank but affectionate portrait of an enduring icon of stage and screen.

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The definitive and enthralling biography of one of Britain greatest musical stars, Julie Andrews.

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The author has met and interviewed Julie at length on a number of occasions

Details ISBN0749951621 Author Richard Stirling Pages 384 Year 2007 ISBN-10 0749951621 ISBN-13 9780749951627 Format Paperback Publication Date 2007-11-08 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 791.43028092 Media Book Publisher Little, Brown Book Group Imprint Piatkus Books Subtitle An intimate biography Short Title Julie Andrews Language English UK Release Date 2007-11-08 Series Tom Thorne Novels Illustrations Section: 16, 16pp colour plates Audience General NZ Release Date 2007-11-30 AU Release Date 2007-11-30 We've got this

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