, and thus began her meteoric rise to stardom. When only eighteen, she left home for the United States to make her Broadway debut in
Julie's professional career began at the age of twelve, and in 1948 she became the youngest solo performer ever to participate in a Royal Command Performance before the Queen. Along the way, she weathered the London Blitz of World War II her parents' painful divorce her mother's turbulent second marriage to Canadian tenor Ted Andrews, and a childhood spent on radio, in music halls, and giving concert performances all over England. Her memoir begins in 1935, when Julie was born to an aspiring vaudevillian mother and a teacher father, and takes readers to 1962, when Walt Disney himself saw her on Broadway and cast her as the world's most famous nanny. , Julie takes her readers on a warm, moving, and often humorous journey from a difficult upbringing in war-torn Britain to the brink of international stardom in America. But she has never told the story of her life before fame. , Julie Andrews has played a series of memorable roles that have endeared her to generations.
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