Home by Julie Andrews
The beloved Julie Andrews has captured our hearts on screen for decades, 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.
Featuring over fifty personal photos--many never before seen--this is the personal memoir Julie Andrews' audiences have been waiting for.
Julie Andrews Edwards is a well-known celebrity in the entertainment industry. Her most well-known roles include Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and The Princess Diaries. Mandy, The Last of the Very Great Whangdoodles, and the Little Bo series are among Edwards' many popular children's novels. Simeon's Gift, The Great American Mousical, Thanks to You: Advice from Mother & Child, and the recent New York Times bestsellers The Very Fairy Princess and Julie Andrews' Collection of Poetry, Songs, and Lullabies are among the works she and her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, an arts educator and theater professional, have coauthored for young readers. Raising Bookworms is Emma's first book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780786865659 |
| ISBN 10 | 0786865652 |
| Title | Home |
| Author | Julie Andrews |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Hyperion |
| Year published | 2008-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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