![]() ![]() Their shared professional projects ( S.O.B, 10, Victor/Victoria) and blended family (including children from previous marriages and two girls adopted from Vietnam) appear to have consumed Andrew’s life, repeating the chaotic patterns of her childhood.īut in Home Work, Andrews seems liberated, honestly relating her co-dependent relationship with the troubled Edwards (who died in 2010), who struggled with depression, hypochondria, and pill abuse. Why he chose to woo me was a total puzzlement-we couldn’t have been more different. “There was something dangerous about him, which was irresistible to my play-it-safe nature. “But-how did you know?”įrom then on, lilacs would feature heavily in their romance. “She has lilacs for pubic hair.” Apparently, the room erupted with laughter, and somebody said, “With your luck, you’ll probably meet the lady and end up marrying her!” As he finished his story, he looked at me sheepishly. She began going to an analyst, and both Home and Home Work are peppered with seemingly endless talk of therapy which helped her realize she was a people pleaser who needed to start living for herself.Įveryone had ventured an opinion, except Blake. Without pausing or even breaking a smile, he casually said, 'Oh, hi, girls,’ and continued down the corridor.” BlakeĪs Andrews soared to greater heights as Maria in 1965’s The Sound of Music, she admits she was overwhelmed and anxiety-ridden as her first marriage fell apart. “We plunged into our embrace once again, and Mike stepped out of the elevator. Leaning over the sofa, she inquired, “Excuse me, are you Carol Burnett?” In a strangled voice, Carol said, “Yes!” Then raising a hand above the sofa to point at me, she added, “And this is my friend, Mary Poppins!”įinally, the target of their prank appeared. With a touch of panic, I noticed that the lady who had just passed us had turned around and was now coming back. ![]() She couldn’t even reply, she was laughing so hard. I would lie there,” she writes, “knowing that my return home was imminent and that he was giving me every ounce of himself that he possibly could.”Ĭarol slid off my knee and crawled behind the sofa to hide. “Dad would tuck me into bed and read me a poem or a story, in his precise, beautifully modulated voice. One night he came into her room and kissed her, explaining, “I really must teach you how to kiss properly.” The always resourceful Andrews told her aunt, and the next day her uncle installed a bolt on her bedroom door.Īndrews found strength and respite when visiting her father and his new family. Set designer Tony Walton, her first husband and childhood sweetheart, told Stirling that Andrews’ diaries were “filled with fanciful images of what a beautiful, happy life she had and what a glamourous existence she led, when in reality it was pretty seedy.”įar from white-washing her troubled childhood, an older and highly-therapized Andrews writes of her abusive stepfather’s highly disturbing behavior towards her in straightforward but emotional detail. Her mother and stepfather were turbulent alcoholics, and Andrews often found herself attempting to comfort her younger brothers and mother after a beating. The anxious young teen traveled endlessly around the country with her mother and stepfather, with a chaperone, or alone, always longing to go home.īut home was not a happy place. I kept a little book, writing ‘X’ for excellent or ‘Fairly Good’ or ‘TERRIBLE,’” she writes. “I began to rate myself in terms of how well I sang each night. ![]() The professional works until he cannot go wrong.” “People have called her both an English Rose and Iron Butterfly, and both descriptions fit.” Revelationsīy the age of 13, Andrews was supporting her family, and heeding her kindly voice teacher’s motto: “The amateur works until he can get it right. “Julie was down to earth-full of fun-and determined to be a star,” actor Norman Wisdom wrote, per Stirling. But Andrews was destined for bigger things.
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