Julie Andrews is quite simply a phenomenon. She has probably brought more joy to more people than any other star of her generation
- Richard Attenborough. Julie Andrews is the last of the great Hollywood musical stars
- her extraordinary career spans more than forty years. Her first film Mary Poppins was Disneys most successful film & in 1965 The Sound of Music rescued Twentieth Century Fox from bankruptcy. Three years later Star! almost put the studio back under & the leading lady of both films fell as spectacularly as she had risen. But Julie Andrews is nothing if not a survivor; & despite many setbacks
- including the tragedy of losing her singing voice in 1997 after a botched operation
- shes still a performer recently starring in Shrek & The Princess Diaries. Richard Stirlings deeply researched biography
- based on many years of contact with Julie
- is a frank but affectionate portrait of an enduring icon of stage & screen.