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Julie Andrews

A national treasure in Britain, Julie Andrews will forever be remembered as the English rose who sang and danced her way through the massively successful family entertainment movies of the 1960s, The Sound Of Music and Mary Poppins. Growing up in wartime Britain, Andrews had a tough upbringing in London's slums, but her precocious singing talents with a rare four-octave range were recognised early and she was tutored by the soprano Madame Lilian Stiles-Allen. A meeting with entrepreneur Val Parnell led to her professional stage debut at the London Hippodrome in 1947, singing an a...