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Posted on 10/01/2025 5:55:15 PM PDT by Borges
Britain’s practically perfect star enters her 10th decade today. To celebrate we look back over the remarkably rich, radical – and sometimes risqué – career of an actor best known for tucking up children in the mid 1960s
Dame Julie Andrews, so crisply accented, sweetly tuneful and girlish in her most famous movie musicals, has always had a sense of humour about her angelic image. She won the 1965 Oscar for playing a “practically perfect” English nanny for Walt Disney, but that didn’t stop her from driving around Los Angeles with a “Mary Poppins Was a Junkie” bumper sticker on her car. Or telling journalists that “I hate the word wholesome”, and her Hollywood nickname was “the nun with the switchblade”. Andrews turns 90 today, one of the most beloved of Hollywood stars, with one of cinema’s most astonishing voices. She can look back on a fascinating film career that includes such sweet spoonfuls of sugar as Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965) to The Princess Diaries (2001), but just as many films that are explicit, dark, or just plain surprising.
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The Americanization of Emily. One of the better anti-war movies of the early 60s. Black and White, 1964.
Recommended.
Andrews showed her tits in the movie S.O.B. cir 1981.
Thanks for the heads up?
Heard her sing years ago at the Shubert in Chicago before her voice was damaged. She was wonderful.
Victor/Victoria was fantastic.
Loved that movie, with James Garner. No singing, IIRC.
The message was interesting.
Beautiful singing in Camelot.
Hated The Sound Of Music. “My Favorite Things” and that “do re mi” song. Just eeewww.
Good movie!
Not much.
Classy lady for sure.
Unforgettable songs. My Favorite Things is a marvel of compositional craft.
I recently watched Torn Curtain for the first time and there’s Julie in bed making out with Paul Newman. I had to pause the movie and get the thought of Newman doing it with Mary Poppins out of my head. I think she worked hard not to be pigeonholed into goody-goody roles after Poppins and Sound of Music.
They forgot to mention “S.O.B.” and “10”.
Only movies I ever saw her in.
Quite.
4 octave range
I remember when that happened, although I didn't remember the movie name.
I also remember Johnnie Carson mentioning it in his monologue --- "The Hills Are Alive!"
One of my all time favorite movie musicals.
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