Jolly Andrews: Young people loved him before adults and Venice crowned him with his golden lion

Actress and singer Julie Andrews, starring Mary Poppins and Sound of Music, received the Golden Lion Award for Overall Achievement at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.

This award is the culmination of Andrews' 83-year-old artistic achievements in the fields of film, theater and singing.

Over these decades, Andrews, with his adored features and distinctive voice, has been a favorite star of many generations, beloved of all ages, and some even loved him in his childhood at the time of his Shine in the sixties of the last century, accompanied by a great star in his various roles as an actor over the following decades.

"Fortunate"

Amid the applause of the crowd, Andrews presented and accepted the Golden Lion Award, claiming that she considered herself "lucky" for her long career in the film industry.

"I'm still wondering if I've been the lucky girl who was asked to play these wonderful roles."

Andrews was born on October 1, 1935 in England and called herself "Julie Elizabeth Wells", in the midst of a family of artists. Her mother and husband were actors of the so-called Voodville Theater (a theatrical genre based on the presentation of various scenes of humor, dance and song.).

Andrews followed the path of his parents by presenting dramatic and musical scenes in the music halls during his childhood and adolescence.

Andrews, however, began her professional career at the age of 20 when she played Cinderella at the London Palladium Theater.

In 1954, Andrews moved to Broadway in New York to play in Sandy Wilson's "Boyfriend."

This great play proved to be a rising star in Broadway theaters, featuring many musicals, including the 1956 "My Beautiful Lady" inspired by writer Bernard Shaw's play "Pegmalion." "in which she played the role of Eliza Doolittle. The fictional character created by Shaw in his play, and the role of Queen "Guinevere" wife of King Arthur in the play "Camelot" in 1957.

The same year, she made her television debut in the television production of the play "Cinderella", which is broadcast live and watched about a million viewers.

Despite the great success and critical celebration of her portrayal of the "Doolittle" character on the stage, it was not featured in the 1964 movie version of the same movie, where director George Cocor chose the film. Audrey Hepburn actress to interpret this character with the actor Rex Harrison.

The film had major commercial success and critical criticism and won eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, but Hepburn did not receive an Oscar for his performance.

However, the loss of this role by Andrews was the prelude to her great success when she appeared in the movie "Mary Poppins" in 1964, which made her famous in the film world and earned her the best actress, Oscar, for her performance.

The film's producer, Walt Disney, nominates her the role in 1963 and responds with conditional approval if she is not concerned about Doolittle in "My Beautiful Lady," produced the same year.

Andrew's success was reinforced by her role as Maria von Trapp in "The Sound of Music" in 1965, which was a huge success and became one of the most acclaimed films of the year. history of cinema.

Typical personality

However, the success of these two great movies has not been tax free in her acting career.

Later, Andrews tried to diversify his acting roles, with directors Alfred Hitchcock and Paul Neumann in the film "Torn Curtain" (Torn Curtin) of the Cold War, where she played the role of secretary of the company. 39, a physicist kidnapped in East Germany at a scientific conference. Copenhagen, but later told him that he went voluntarily to seek scientific secrets of the country under Soviet control.

She appeared in the character of Amelie, the woman who lost her husband, brother and father in the war in the movie "Americanization of Amelie" of 1964 and in the role of the new wife accompanying her husband ( actor Max von Seydou) who went on a missionary mission to the Hawaiian Islands in the nineteenth century in the epic film "Hawaii" in 1966.

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She played in the actor Omar Sharif in another Cold War drama in 1974, in which she appears under the names of Judith Farrow, the charismatic employee of the British Home Office and ex-girlfriend of 39, a British minister who meets during his vacation in the Caribbean. A Russian soldier "plays the role of Omar al-Sharif" and lives a love story under the surveillance of the intelligence services of both countries.

Her second husband, director Blake Edward, wanted to present her in various roles beyond her famous style, in films such as "10" in 1979, "SOP" in 1981 and the humorous show "Victor Victoria" in 1982, where she played a character. A vehicle, the singer Sprano, suffers in his career and disguises himself as a man named Count Victor Graginski. She was nominated for an Oscar for her role. He also starred in the lead role with actor Jack Lemmon in the 1986 comedy film, The Life.

Awards and honors

Andrews continued to play in movies and on television in the 1980s and 1990s. After 2001, she appeared in the movie "The Diaries of a Princess" with the ever-growing American actress, Anne Hathaway, and in the second part of this film also in 2004.

After 2004, she only lent her voice to animated characters such as Shrek, the most recent of which was Aqua Man in 2018, and the TV show on burgers she is currently working on.

During his rich career, Andrews has won numerous awards and honors, including five times the US Golden Globe, the BAFTA (awarded by the British Academy of Television and Film Arts), three Grammy Music Awards and two American Emmy Awards. Field of television. Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Screen Actors Guild.

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In 2000, Queen Elizabeth II honored her by giving her the title of "Dem", an honorary rank of honors and honors in the British Empire, which corresponds to the title of Men's Walk. She was also among the top 100 British personalities in a BBC survey in 2002.

In 2003, Andrews experienced her return to Broadway, but not as an actress, but as a director, if she reoriented her first play in the 1950s, "The Lover."

Andrews stayed close to the world of children, who loved his role as nanny in his films to write many of their own books.