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The most recent book on Julie Andrews is an exhaustive, heavily-researched biography by British author Richard Stirling, which brings Dame Julie's life up-to-date to early 2007. With a lengthy photo section, in both color and black & white. This exhaustive biography even surpasses Robert Windeler's impressive book of 1997, with much new insight and details about Julie's grandfather on her mother's side.
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Dame Julie Andrews, DBE (born October 1, 1935) is an Academy Award-winning English actress, singer, and author, who became famous for her starring roles in the musical films Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound Of Music (1965). Currently, she is the Official Ambassador of the Happiest Homecoming on Earth for Disneyland's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
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Julie Andrews experienced a huge personal setback in the late 1990s when her vocal chords were damaged during an operation. While she never regained her powerful, sharp singing voice, she continued to act in films and television movies. Andrews ... received a special distinction around this time—being made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II of England. As befitting as an English dame, she played royalty in The Princess Diaries (2001) and its 2004 sequel, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.
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One of the great movie stars of the late twentieth century, Dame Julie Andrews' stage career has been neglected by most authors and websites. In her early years Julie appeared in pantomime, revue, variety and charity events as well as in a play and a Royal Gala. After the Broadway musical "Camelot" she was primarily a film actress, although she returned to the stage at times during her later career.
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Andrews became Dame Julie Andrews in 2000, when Queen Elizabeth II named her a Dame of the British Empire (DBE). She was honored by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2001 and ... appeared in the 2002 list of "100 Great Britons." In 2005, Andrews directed her first stage production, and in January 2007, she received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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Julie Andrews is more than just a movie star, but something of an icon. The Oscar-winning Mary Poppins has triumphed from stage and screen to having carved a niche in popular culture. While her sugar-coated The Sound of Music is currently enjoying something of a comeback with the hugely popular sing-along version, Andrews herself is enjoying herb own personal comeback as the Queenly grandmother in the G-rated The Princess Diaries, and hopes to return to singing despite the botched up throat surgery that nearly destroyed her career. In an enlightening interview with Paul Fischer in Los Angeles, the 66-year old Dame Julie talked nuns and Alps, flying nannies, throat surgery, childhood and The Princess Diaries.
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