Julie Andrews originated the iconic role of Mary Poppins in the movie based on the book.
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She's been working professionally since she was just 10 years old, performing in a vaudeville act with her family singing all over England even performing at age 13 for King George the sixth and the future Queen Elizabeth.
She originated the leading roles in the Broadway productions of My Fair Lady and Camelot, the latter of which put her in front of the eyes of Walt Disney himself who cast her in the iconic role of Mary Poppins and off she went to do all these other incredible films.
She's a prolific author who's written dozens of children's books with her daughter Emma.
And I hid the Oscar away, didn't want to show off. Didn't want to parade it in my office or anything like that, but I hope it's out of the attic.
But I did have a hunch maybe that perhaps it was given in lieu of not, getting the role of Eliza in the movie of My Fair Lady and I had been passed up for that.
I didn't want to show off. Yeah, I, I was very new to this lovely craft that we're all in, in terms of movies and things, and also I did have a hunch maybe that perhaps it was given in lieu of not. Um getting the role of Eliza in the movie of My Fair Lady and I had been passed up for that and I understood it perfectly well, but, uh, of course it it made me sad that I couldn't have a good crack at it on film. Though I'd never done a movie before when I made Mary Poppins, so thank goodness Walt saw something that was appropriate for Mary and and I didn't mind not doing My Fair Lady, but, but I wish I'd had a chance of some kind to put it down on record.
And I was so struck because first of all my favorite things the lyrics for that tune are great, aren't they?
But my friend Judy A used to read all the Mary Poppins books and then she would tell me about them, so I had in my image of this Mary Poppins it was always sort of around in the trees and so forth and she was a perfect Mary Poppins.
She looked perfect. She spoke perfectly and she sang perfectly.