Julie Andrews Net Worth

Julie Andrews's Quotes

• I don't want to be thought of as wholesome.
• [1982] Does Mary Poppins have an orgasm? Does she go to the bathroom? I assure you, she does.
• Singing has never been particularly easy for me.
• Films are much more my level. On stage I never feel quite enough.
• [upon answering whether Mary Poppins and Bert ever got it together]: I hope so. She wouldn't admit it, but I do hope so.

Interesting Facts about Julie Andrews

1. Was named a Dame by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on the Millenium New Year's Honours List on December 31, 1999.
2. Her husband reported that she would probably never sing again because the throat surgery had ruined her voice. [November 1998]
3. Underwent throat surgery. [June 1997]
4. Stepmother of Jennifer Edwards and Geoffrey Edwards.
5. Uses the pen-name 'Julie Edwards'.
6. Born at 6:00am-BST.
7. Spent some time in a psychiatric clinic, to help her cope with the trauma resulting from her throat surgery.
8. Mother, with Tony Walton, of daughter Emma Walton Hamilton.
9. 7 September 2000 - Her malpractice suit against the 2 New York Mt. Sinai Hospital doctors who allegedly botched her throat surgery was settled for an undisclosed sum.
10. The London press reported that Miss Andrews's settlement for her botched throat surgery was nearly 21 million British pounds, or about 30 million U.S. dollars. [2001]
11. While she played the original Eliza Dolittle in the Broadway musical "My Fair Lady", Audrey Hepburn played the part in the movie My Fair Lady (1964). The studio executives did not want Andrews because she hadn't had any experience in film and thought Hepburn would be the better choice. However, while the film My Fair Lady took home several Oscars in 1964, it failed to win the Best Actress category. That award went to none other than Julie Andrews for her performance in Mary Poppins (1964).
12. When Tony Walton proposed to her, he gave her a broach instead of a ring.
13. She has a rose named after her.
14. Has perfect pitch.
15. In 2002, she was voted the 59th greatest Briton ever in a BBC poll.
16. Played the same role of "Victoria Grant" in the Broadway musical adaption of Victor Victoria (1982). She turned down a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Musical.
17. Has owned a chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland, for many years. Every year she pays for Gstaad's Christmas lights. In July she presents the prize for the winner of the annual Gstaad Tennis Open. She once said if she was nervous before a performance on stage, she'd just have to look at a photo from 'lovely' Gstaad, and she was reassured.
18. In the 1960s she sported a bumper sticker on her car reading "Mary Poppins is a junkie".
19. In 1969, when MGM cancelled their proposed Irving Berlin musical biography "Say it With Music" in which she was set to star, she sued the studio and collected her $1,250,000 salary.
20. Mary Poppins (1964) for Disney, The Sound of Music (1965) for 20th Century Fox and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) for Universal were the biggest money-makers yet for their studios. However, her next two films, Star! (1968) and Darling Lili (1970), to put it mildly, failed to get their money back.