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Julia Elizabeth Wells [8] was born on 1 October 1935 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England. [9] [10] Her mother, Barbara Ward Wells (née Morris; 25 July 1910 [11] –1984) was born in Chertsey [12] and married Edward Charles "Ted" Wells (1908–1990), a teacher of metalwork and woodwork, in 1932. [13]
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Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on October 1, 1935, in England. Her mother, Barbara Ward (Morris), and stepfather, both vaudeville performers, discovered her freakish but undeniably lovely four-octave singing voice and immediately got her a singing career. She performed in music halls throughout her childhood and teens, and at age 20, she launched h...
Andrew came to Broadway in 1954 with \"The Boy Friend\", and became a bona fide star two years later in 1956, in the role of Eliza Doolittle in the unprecedented hit \"My Fair Lady\". Her star status continued in 1957, when she starred in the TV-production of Cinderella (1957) and through 1960, when she played \"Guenevere\" in \"Camelot\".
In 1963, Walt Disney asked Andrews if she would like to star in his upcoming production, a lavish musical fantasy that combined live-action and animation. She agreed on the condition if she didn't get the role of Doolittle in the pending film production of My Fair Lady (1964). After Audrey Hepburn was cast in My Fair Lady, Andrews made an auspiciou...
Andrews continued to work on Broadway, until the release of The Sound of Music (1965), the highest-grossing movie of its day and one of the highest-grossing of all time. She soon found that audiences identified her only with singing, sugary-sweet nannies and governesses, and were reluctant to accept her in dramatic roles in The Americanization of E...
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Feb 5, 2021 · She came from a musical family; her mother was a pianist and her stepfather, from whom she took her surname, was a singer. Andrews first found success on the English stage in the late 1940s and...
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Apr 30, 2024 · Notable Family Members: spouse Blake Edwards. The Sound of Music. Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music (1965). Julie Andrews (born October 1, 1935, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England) is an English motion-picture, stage, and musical star noted for her crystalline four-octave voice and her charm and skill as an actress.
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Jun 10, 2022 · Co-authored with her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton, its title is "Home Work: A Memoir Of My Hollywood Years." Julie Andrews got her start in her parents' vaudeville act when she was 9 years...
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May 2, 2008 · All her life she had thought her mother’s husband was her father, a schoolteacher named Ted Wells, and she loved him as a natural parent. The fact that Wells was not her father was one of...
Early life. Julie Andrews was born on 1st October 1935 in Walton on Thames, Surrey, England. She was brought up in humble surroundings. At a young age, her parents were divorced and she was brought up by her father, her mother (Barbara) and stepfather, Ted Andrews.
