Home A Memoir of My Early Years
eBook - 2008
Since her first appearance on screen in Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews has played a series of memorable roles that have endeared her to generations. But she has never told the story of her life before fame. Until now. In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, 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. 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. 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. Julie's professional career began at the age of twelve, and...
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Hachette Books
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- English
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- Overdrive Resource Page
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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File Size | 2 GB |
ISBN | 9781401395421 |
Release Date | 4/1/2008 |
Kindle Book | |
ISBN | 9780316407915 |
ASIN | B0013TTKWQ |
Release Date | 4/1/2008 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9781401395421 |
Release Date | 4/1/2008 |