The woman who featured so prominently in so many of our childhoods turns 80 today.
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After that, Julie Andrews truly became a bona-fide superstar. Just as she turned 19, she made her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend. She has been a major figure on stage and screen for most of her life, having begun her career on the stage in the U.K.as a child.
Andrews still works and experienced another career revival by starring in Disney’s Princess Diaries movies.
From an early age, Julie had an extraordinary musical gift: a four octave soprano voice. The duo married in 1969.
Edwards passed as a result of complications from pneumonia after battling both Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and depression for 15 years.
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Check out our picks below, and then add your own. “But he is in a way, I think one carries that love always”, she said.
Her “Victor/Victoria” co-star, James Garner, also appeared with Andrews is one of her best dramatic roles, “The Americanization of Emily“. She also received an Oscar nomination for this film.
The birthday wishes have been pouring endlessly for Julie Andrews, and rightfully so.
Disney tweeted, wishing her “a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” birthday. From the very first time we saw her in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, until the present day where she continues to delight, Julie has shown just how talented she is.
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He then offered her the title role in his upcoming film, “Mary Poppins“.
