Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE is an English film and stage actor, singer and writer. She also received Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honors. Andrews was a former British child actress and singer who made her Broadway debut in 1954 with The Boy Friend, and got famous starring in other musicals such asMy Fair Lady and Camelot, and in musical films like Mary Poppins, she won the Oscar for Best Actress and The Sound of Music in roles that she is still best known. Her voice ranged four octaves until it was destroyed by a throat operation in 1997.
Andrews auditioned for a role in the Richard Rodgers musical, Pipe Dream. Even if Rodgers would have her for Pipe Dream, he advised her to take part in the Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner musical My Fair Lady, if it were offered to her. In 1956 she starred in My Fair Lady Eliza Doolittle with Rex Harrison's Henry Higgins. Rodgers was so impressed with Andrew's talent, as she races in My Fair Lady, she was in the Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical, Cinderella.
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