Since her first appearance on screen in Mary Poppins Julie Andrews has played a series of memorable roles that have endeared her to generations. But she has never told the story of her life before fame. Until now.
In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years Julie takes her readers on a warm moving and often humorous journey from a difficult upbringing in war-torn Britain to the brink of international stardom in America. Her memoir begins in 1935 when Julie was born to an aspiring vaudevillian mother and a teacher father and takes readers to 1962 when Walt Disney himself saw her on Broadway and cast her as the world's most famous nanny.
Along the way she weathered the London Blitz of World War II; her parents' painful divorce; her mother's turbulent second marriage to Canadian tenor Ted Andrews and a childhood spent on radio in music halls and giving concert performances all over England. Julie's professional career began at the age of twelve and in 1948 she became the youngest solo performer ever to participate in a Royal Command Performance before the Queen. When only eighteen she left home for the United States to make her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend and thus began her meteoric rise to stardom.
Home is filled with numerous anecdotes including stories of performing in My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison on Broadway and in the West End and in Camelot with Richard Burton on Broadway; her first marriage to famed set and costume designer Tony Walton culminating with the birth of their daughter Emma; and the call from Hollywood and what lay beyond.
Julie Andrews' career has flourished over seven decades. From her legendary Broadway performances to her roles in such iconic films as The Sound of Music Mary Poppins Thoroughly Modern Millie Hawaii 10 and The Princess Diaries to her award-winning television appearances multiple album releases concert tours international humanitarian work best-selling children's books and championship of literacy Julie's influence spans generations. Today she lives with her husband of thirty-eight years the acclaimed writer/director Blake Edwards; they have five children and seven grandchildren.
Featuring over fifty personal photos many never before seen this is the personal memoir Julie Andrews' audiences have been waiting for.>
Julie Andrews's legendary career encompasses the Broadway and London stages, as well as multiple films, television shows, album releases, concert tours, directing assignments, and the world of children's publishing. In 2000 the title of Dame Commander of the British Empire was bestowed upon her by Queen Elizabeth II for lifetime achievements in the arts and humanities. Her many other honors include a Kennedy Center honor in the fall of 2001. She was married to film director Blake Edwards for forty-one years, and the couple have five children, ten grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.Emma Walton Hamilton is an award-winning writer, producer and arts educator. Together with her mother, Julie Andrews, she has written over thirty books for children and young adults, including the New York Times bestselling Very Fairy Princess series. Emma is on the faculty of Stony Brook University's MFA in Creative Writing, where she serves as director of the Children's Lit Fellows and the Young Artists and Writers Project.Chiara Fedele was born in Milan, Italy. She has a degree in Illustration from La Scuola del Fumetto in Milan, and has illustrated numerous picture books and received several awards, such as the 3×3 international illustration award merit in 2019. She currently lives in Italy with her family and pets.
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