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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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That makes two of us, MM.
Christopher Plummer called the movie “The Sound of Mucus”.
Saw that/them
“The Sound of Mucus”.
LO! I have to agree. I have to admit that I’ve never seen the whole movie.
My senior year in high school, Advanced Chorus was forced to sing a medly of pieces from the soundtrack. It was so offensive that I never went to see the show.
It was fortunate that I already was a senior, so I was spared from future years in Chorus where we might sing that tripe.
Do you like Rodgers & Hammerstein in general?
“Do you like Rodgers & Hammerstein in general?”
Yes. 💕💋
Also Lerner and Lowe; Meredith Willson. Lyrics by Yip Harburg are great.
Only two musicals I didn’t like were Sound of Music and West Side Story, although some of the songs in West Side Story are beautiful.
TSOM is filled with unforgettable songs. Edelweiss sounds like a genuine Austrian folk song.
“It’s A Small World” is unforgettable, too. 😵💫
I’m not saying that the music is bad in that movie; I’m just saying it’s not my cup of tea.
It’s nice that all people don’t have the same taste in music. 🎶
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