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Julie Andrews
Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (née Wells;[1] born 1 October 1935)[2] is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honours. Andrews was a former British child actress and singer who made her Broadway debut in 1954 with The Boy Friend, and rose to prominence starring in other musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, and in musical films such as Mary Poppins (1964), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and The Sound Of Music (1965): the roles for which she is still best-known. Her voice, which originally spanned four octaves, was damaged by a throat operation in 1997.
Andrews had a revival of her film career in the 2000s in family films such as The Princess Diaries (2001), its sequel The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), the Shrek animated films (2004–20 10), and Despicable Me (20 10). In 2003 Andrews revisited her first Broadway success, this time as a stage director, with a revival of The Boy Friend at the Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, New York (and later at the Goodspeed Opera House, in East Haddam, Connecticut in 2005).
Andrews is also an author of children's books, and in 2008 published an autobiography, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years.
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Julie Andrews loves Tom Hanks as Disney -
23 April 2012
-Beloved actress Julie Andrews has applauded casting bosses for landing Tom Hanks as Walt Disney in a new film about the making of Mary Poppins - because the Oscar winner personifies what was special about the movie mogul.-Andrews, who played the title character in the
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Andrews honoured at Princess Grace Awards -
2 November 2011
-Movie icon Dame Julie Andrews was handed the top honour at the 2011 Princess Grace Awards Gala on Tuesday (01Nov11) to mark her success in Hollywood and her dedication to humanitarian causes.-The Sound of Music star received the Prince Rainier III Award at the New Yor
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Andrews to be honoured at Princess Grace Awards -
27 September 2011
-Movie icon Julie Andrews will be feted at the 2011 Princess Grace Awards Gala for her success in Hollywood and her dedication to humanitarian causes.-The Sound of Music star will receive the Prince Rainier III Award in New York on 1 November (11).- Past recipients ha
Julie Andrews - what members say
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A woman pretending to be a man, pretending to be a woman... 26 February 2004
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Julie Andrews - filmography
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Despicable Me - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Will Arnett, Jemaine Clement, Steve Carell
Director: Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
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Computer-animated children's comedy about an arch-criminal who has a change of heart. Trying to outdo his main rival Vector (voice of Jason Segel), serial villain Gru (Steve Carell) hatches a plan to steal the moon, aided by his army of genetically altered corn pops. About to set his dastardly plan ..read more »
 
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The Tooth Fairy
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Stephen Merchant
Director: Michael Lembeck
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Dwayne Johnson is "The Tooth Fairy," also known as Derek Thompson, a hard-charging minor league hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. When Derek discourages a youngster's dreams, he's sentenced to one week's hard labor as a real tooth ..read more »
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Tooth Fairy - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Stephen Merchant
Director: Michael Lembeck
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Dwayne Johnson is "The Tooth Fairy," also known as Derek Thompson, a hard-charging minor league hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. When Derek discourages a youngster's dreams, he's sentenced to one week's hard labor as a real tooth ..read more »
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Despicable Me
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Jason Segel, Steve Carell, Russell Brand
Director: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
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In a happy suburban neighbourhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbours, hidden deep beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by an army of tireless, little yellow minions, we discover Gru (..read more »
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Shrek the Third
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz
Director: Chris Miller, Raman Hui
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When Fiona's dad dies Shrek is supposed to take the crown but Shrek doesn't want the responsibility. So Shrek, Fiona, Donkey and Puss look for a new King. And so far King Arthur is the best they have.
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Hey Mr Producer
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Judi Dench, Julie Andrews, Michael Ball
Director: Hey Mr Producer!
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Julie Andrews presents a galaxy of stars in this musical gala, recorded at London Lyceum Theatre in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. Paul Nicholas, Russ Abbot, Julia McKenzie and Jonathan Pryce help make up the cast of over 200 performing excerpts from musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber ..read more »
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Unconditional Love
(2002)
Starring: Rupert Everett, Julie Andrews, Kathy Bates
Director: P.J. Hogan
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A comic murder-mystery. Grace Beasly (Kathy Bates) finds her placid Midwestern life turned upside down when her husband (Dan Aykroyd) walks out on her and her favourite pop star, Victor Fox (Jonathan Pryce), is murdered by a serial killer. She teams up with Dirk Simpson (Rupert Everett), Fox's ..read more »
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from 2,478 members
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The Princess Diaries
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Sean O'Bryan, Eric Von Detten, Heather Matarazzo
Director: Garry Marshall
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San Francisco teenager Mia Thermopolis (Anne Hathaway) just wants to get through the rigours of high school unharmed, avoiding as many of life's petty embarassments as possible. However, when her long-lost grandmother Clarisse (Julie Andrews) appears out of the blue, Mia gets the surprise of her ..read more »
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Relative Values
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: William Baldwin, Sophie Thompson, Gaye Brown
Director: Eric Styles
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England, the 1950s. When the eligible Nigel, Earl of Marshwood (Edward Atterton) announces his engagement to Hollywood actress Miranda Frayle (Jean Tripplehorn), it causes all manner of trouble. To start with, his mother Felicity (Julie Andrews) is upset that he is marrying outside the aristocracy; ..read more »
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Victor/Victoria
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: James Garner, Julie Andrews, Blake Edwards
Director: Blake Edwards
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On the verge of starvation in 1930s Paris, erstwhile entertainer Victoria (Julie Andrews) is rescued by gay cabaret performer Toddy (Robert Preston). What she needs to succeed, opines Toddy, is a gimmick. What if she becomes a male impersonator? Better still: what if she becomes a male impersonator,..read more »
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S.O.B.
(1981)
Starring: Julie Andrews, William Holden, Marisa Berenson
Director: Blake Edwards
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Based on his near-career-ending experience with the box-office disaster DARLING LILI, Blake Edwards fashioned a corrosive behind-the-scenes satire of the business in which he had long plied his trade.The film stars Richard Mulligan as Felix Farmer, a once-successful director whose career is on the ..read more »
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from 46 members
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10
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Bo Derek, Dudley Moore, Robert Webber
Director: Blake Edwards
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Forty year-old Oscar-winning screenwriter George (Dudley Moore) attempts to combat a bout of mid-life crisis by pursuing the woman of his dreams (Bo Derek), even though he first sees her as she is making the way to her own wedding. Tracking the object of his affections to her honeymoon destination ..read more »
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The Tamarind Seed
(1974)
Starring: Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif
Director: Blake Edwards
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While holidaying in Barbados, widowed Foreign Office employee Judith (Julie Andrews) begins a romance with handsome Russian military attaché Feodor (Omar Sharif). However, Feodor is in reality the second-in-command of the KGB, and when Judith returns to England she finds herself under suspicion of ..read more »
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Darling Lili
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Rock Hudson, Julie Andrews
Director: Blake Edwards
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Musical set in World War II starring Julie Andrews as Lili Smith, a famous femme fatale music-hall singer with a dark secret: she is also working as a German spy. Things are further complicated for Lili when she is ordered to seduce the dashing Major William Larrabee (Rock Hudson), and finds ..read more »
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Star!
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Daniel Massey, Michael Craig, Richard Crenna
Director: Robert Wise
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Musical starring Julie Andrews as legendary musical comedy star Gertrude Lawrence. The film traces Lawrence's progress from ambitious young actress to the toast of London and Broadway. Her success is offset by a stormy private life, which is given some stability when she falls in love with an ..read more »
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Hawaii
(1966)
Starring: Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris
Director: George Roy Hill
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Hawaii hadn't even begun filming when director Fred Zinnemann was replaced by George Roy Hill; similarly, the role intended for Charlton Heston ended up being played by Richard Harris (though Heston would eventually star in the 1970 sequel, The Hawaiians). Based on James A. Michener's best-selling ..read more »
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Torn Curtain
(1966)
Starring: Ludwig Donath, Lila Kedrova, Paul Newman
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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A double agent has to contend with enemies on both sides of the political fence as well as the woman he loves in this thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Prof. Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) is an gifted American physicist who, at the height of the Cold War, decides to defect to East Germany. ..read more »
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The Sound Of Music
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Eleanor Parker, Anna Lee, Richard Haydn
Director: Robert Wise
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Austria in the 1930s. Ex-nun Maria (Julie Andrews) becomes the governess for a family of seven children who live in the shadow of their domineering and repressed widower father (Christopher Plummer). She brings love, music and excitement into the children's lives and also eventually begins to have ..read more »
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The Sound Of Music - Blu-ray
(1965)
Starring: Eleanor Parker, Anna Lee, Richard Haydn
Director: Robert Wise
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Austria in the 1930s. Ex-nun Maria (Julie Andrews) becomes the governess for a family of seven children who live in the shadow of their domineering and repressed widower father (Christopher Plummer). She brings love, music and excitement into the children's lives and also eventually begins to have ..read more »
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Mary Poppins
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Reginald Owen, Elsa Lanchester, Glynis Johns
Director: Robert Stevenson
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Long resistant to film adaptations of her Mary Poppins books, P.L. Travers finally succumbed to the entreaties of Walt Disney, and the result is often considered the finest of Disney's personally supervised films. The Travers stories are bundled together to tell the story of the Edwardian-era ..read more »
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A Broadway the American Musical History
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Julie Andrews
Director: Sally Rosenthal, Michael Kantor
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An account of the infamous American Musicals launched in New York from 1893. The documentary explores the epic of popular American culture as it has changed in every era amidst reflecting the talent of varied prominent composers - Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Rogers and Hart through to the ..read more »
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