Is it time to admit that Julie Andrews sucks?

Julie Andrews was outstanding in Victor/Victoria.

Disagree. She was kind of terrible.

No, it is not time for that.

[quote]like every third movie starred Julie Andrews

Nah. She was lucky to do a movie a year if that.

OP likes replying to herself.

She's wonderful.

[quote] OP likes replying to herself.

Do I? Because I haven't once on here.

Brilliant.

... I loved that her asking price was so high to show up for a cameo in the Mary Poppins sequel, Disney took a pass.

She figured she'd earned it.

Did she do anything other than her husband's movies after the early 1970s?

Hard disagree, OP!

OP, where are the Siskel & Ebert re-runs? I'm a huge fan and would love to watch.

R12, there is a treasure trove of them on YouTube from all years from 1976 to the 2000s.

You do realize that, once they have a hit, 90-95% of actors give the same performance in almost everything they're in and only the dialogue and wardrobe changes, don't you, OP?

It is time, now as ever, to love Julie.

3 nominations 1 win

Julie Andrews is an International Icon& very nice person

She was great in "The Americanization of Emily" with DL LOVE James Garner& Lee Marvin.

Victor/Victoria was wonderful with DL LOVE James Garner again, Lesley Anne Warren, Robert Preston& Alex Karras.

S.O.B was beyond funny, doesn't get enough credit-I loved it!!

My buddy Marc in San Diego has 2 originals films of "My Fair Lady"& "Camelot" I never got a straight answer how he got these films, either stole them, bought them, or fucked someone to get them.

R17 Films of what? The Broadway casts?

Yes, my buddy Marc has films of My Fair Lady & Camelot from the original Broadway casts of both shows.

BTW, Richard Burton was really hot and that voice!!

How did Julie Andrews lose the Tony award in My Fair Lady and Camelot? Seriously!!

What's wrong with you OP, are you, ya know mental?

In a recent interview Lesley Ann Warren said, "I adore Julie Andrews. I absolutely adore her. ... Julie is the most generous, most down to earth, kind, fun, funny, loving person."

OP’s a Trumper

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[quote]In a recent interview Lesley Ann Warren said, "I adore Julie Andrews. I absolutely adore her. ... Julie is the most generous, most down to earth, kind, fun, funny, loving person."

Unlike Leslie Ann herself.

Can we clear something up? When people here speak of having "film of the OBC of Camelot and My Fair Lady" you're talking about the extended scene selections from Ed Sullivan, right? Not actual films of t he shows, correct?

Not necessarily. As I understand it, there were single camera recordings made of these older shows that aren't terribly good quality for research purposes. You can watch them in the Lincoln Center library, and it seems a few of them have made it onto YT.

There are also personal recordings, like the one of Streisand's last night on Funny Girl that Jule Styne had done. Babs plays a snippet on her audiobook and says she has it in her vault.

The original costume malfunction.

R27, reporting from Freud's genital phase.

I prefer Shary Bobbins

She's a brittle interview subject and a terrible actress. If forced to eat dog shit or watch Andrews in that revolting Victor/Victoria -- I would have to think about it for a moment.

She comes from a different era of acting. Perhaps, more stage-worthy. Watch her in SOB she tried to immerse herself and challenge people's perception of her on screen.

OP: Mary Poppins!

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

OP, thank you! Much appreciated!

[quote]If forced to eat dog shit or watch Andrews in that revolting Victor/Victoria -- I would have to think about it for a moment.

Oh Erna, you know you would eat the shit without any thought whatsoever.

Erna is dead.

Let's keep it that way please.

[quote]Erna is dead.

But the odor lingers on.

There's a video of the entire Mary Martin South Pacific from 1952 so it's conceivable that the original MFL and Camelot were also filmed by the creators/producers but have yet to pop up anywhere.

Love her cooking shows.

Like most movie actors, she was fine 65% in what she was required to do. If most of it was boring, that's not her fault.

What did Pauline Kael say: Something like: "She has the impersonal niceness of an airline stewardess."

Maybe so, r41, but there is no one under 40 in the general public who knows who Kael is.

She would have looked better without that severe short hairstyle.

R42, is there anyone under 40 who knows who Julie Andrews is?

Decidedly yes. Get out more.

R16, Julie has a record of winning an Oscar one out of every three times she’s nommed. You? 0ne out of every seven.

Stick to Glenn.

Uh yes R44.

From Bridgerton alone.

R24, I need to know the pumpkin story.

[quote] ... I loved that her asking price was so high to show up for a cameo in the Mary Poppins sequel, Disney took a pass.

R9 Despite the many callbacks to the original Mary Poppins, the sequel still lacked Andrews' presence. Director Rob Marshall recalled to Variety how quickly Andrews turned down the offer to appear in Mary Poppins Returns. Marshall stated Andrews felt the film was "Emily's show" and didn't want to hog the spotlight.

"Decidedly"? Look out for granny at R45.

[quote] My buddy Marc in San Diego has 2 originals films of "My Fair Lady"& "Camelot" I never got a straight answer how he got these films, either stole them, bought them, or fucked someone to get them

R17 Are these movies of the stage shows with Julie? Have you seen them?

Julie Andrews is a national treasure. Protect her at all costs.

Op Sorry you’re home sick OP. I hope you have sone sugar at home. A spoonful of the stuff will make the medicine go down in a most delightful way.

^Julie. You csn call me Mrs Edwards

My friend Julie is such a cunt! Not.

I think Julie is really terrific in roles that she's right for. Her performance in The Sound of Music is astonishing. Both vinegary and sweet. Mary Poppins is iconic. But you know, in Torn Curtain, she kind of doesn't know what to do. The film is kinda weak and she and Paul Newman don't really gel.

Not the Ed Sullivan tapes of Camelot (he was involved in that TV taping too). But the "Original Broadway stage production" of "Camelot and My Fair Lady" with Julie Andrews.

To R17, Yes, I have seen them.

I think OP's question is a fair question.

Julie Andrews does seem like a lovely person and a more than competent singer. She's "fine" as an actor is not a rave review.

So, personality and nostalgia aside, was she a good actor? Did she have je ne sais quois that made you want to watch her?

When I watch The Sound of Music, all I can think of is my parents and it's hard to judge.

That short hairstyle: she could have grown it out a bit for roles, but never did.

Her Eliza on the stage was theatre genius. OP is silly- or a troll.

No, OP isn't old enough to have seen her onstage in My Fair Lady.

I have nothing against Julie Andrews, but I was very surprised to find out that she’s a gay icon. Can someone explain why she’s a gay icon? I mean, Julie’s so simple, no big hair and makeup, no big personality, nothing big about her.

[quote]I need to know the pumpkin story.

R48 My coworker (let's call her Andi) shared a property line with Leslie Ann. Andi grew some enormous pumpkins for the special ed school we worked at, but some of the pumpkin vines grew a few inches over the property line. Leslie Ann helped herself to several of the pumpkins, leaving us without enough for the classrooms. The pumpkins weren't on the property line, but because the vines were, Leslie Ann claimed she had a right to them.

An argument erupted, followed by several weeks of sniping back and forth, involving Andi and her husband, Leslie Ann and her attorney husband, and eventually a hapless surveyor.

Andi didn't feel like wasting time in court over it, but she did become ucharacteristically foul mouthed during one of the arguments and called Leslie Ann a cunt to her face. The husbands had to break it up.

The stolen pumpkins were never returned, as Leslie Ann had already given them away.

I just watched a documentary (if you could call it that) about the making of Clue. They interviewed Lesley Ann and she looks damn good for her age, but she had absolutely nothing of substance to say about the film or the making of it. Then again, the filmmaker was so fucking inept, it would not surprise me to find that he asked her nothing of substance.

^ I'd feel bad about repeatedly not spelling her name correctly, had she not been such an awful person.

Didn’t she show her tits in SOB as well?

There was a period where she seemed determined to shed her wholesome image. Much was made of her foray into “adult” films.

Her tits are really ugly.

R66 Oh, please! You just don't like them cause they're not man tits.

Fuck off, R67

Thread derailing quickly.

Julie is and always has been nothing but a class act!

You can be a class act and a mediocre actress. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

I would think that her speaking voice would make it difficult to play many different types of characters, or maybe because it's become so associated with TSOM and MP that the public can't not hear her as those characters.

[Quote] Maybe so, [R41], but there is no one under 40 in the general public who knows who Kael is.

Maybe so R42 but there is a 2019 documentary about Kael titled "What She Said", "A Life in the Dark' a 2011 biography about Kael written by Brian Kellow, and a dozen or so collections of her criticism available on Amazon (Reeling, Deeper into Movies, Taking It All in, Hooked, Going Steady . . .) and Tarantino has talked about making a film about her.

R68, if you’re so sensitive, wtf are you doing HERE?

Fuck off, R74

[quote] I would think that her speaking voice would make it difficult to play many different types of characters

R72 Julie Andrews wouldn’t or couldn’t do an American accent in “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” and there was no explanation why a woman from the US Midwest was speaking with a British accent.

Meanwhile, James Fox is such a good actor that I didn’t know he wasn’t an American when I saw TMM in a movie theater during its first run. (But I sure as hell knew I was attracted to him, closeted gayling that I was at the time). Many years later, I was surprised to find out that Fox is British.

She’s unusually talented- that’s why she’s an icon. I never saw the original My Fair Lady but I have the original cast recording and she is sublime. She’s much the same only very different in the original Camelot cast recording. She’s one of those talents with a distinct sound like all great B’way stars. She’s very English, but he characterizations are always clear as a bell whether cockney or high born. Her voice did not age well, but for a 20 year period it was sublime. And she’s a class act.

What's interesting is that even on this thread with you Eldergay bitches, no one mentions how plastic surgery has made her current face a mask, and it has been that way for a while now. It affects her acting: she now has to do it with her eyes and what she has left of her voice, as her face isn't that expressive anymore. She's had at least two major facial revisions: one sometime in the 1970s in her weird period and one in the late 90s or early 2000s that was quite severe and probably has settled all it's ever going to.

I can't deny that. But there are so many worse examples with younger stars, from Mickey to Meg.

OP, You don't have to convince me. I've thought she was lousy since 1965.

The actress who played the Baroness (SOM) was absolutely beautiful, like Tippi Hedren.

R81 Yes, I'm Team Baroness as well.

R78, you neglected to mention Julie’s nose thinning surgery. The bulbous beak of The Sound of Music was whittled down and made her look very different.

R62, that’s interesting… because Lesley Anne played Cinderella in the 60s. Why did she want the pumpkins so badly? Did she need a coach for the ball?

Looks like Julie had more than one nose job. This was the nose long before TSOM:

Hello, gorgeous r85! Now THAT'S a nose!

Interesting to note that Julie and Leslie both did TV versions of Cinderella, but nobody has mentioned it!!! Who is your favorite R&H TV Cinderella? I think they both did well, in their own way.

Julie Andrews is wonderful. With the right part - Poppins, Maria, Vicyor/Victoria - she’s brilliant. She doesn’t really have the range for some of the things she’s done, but even then, she’s never less than competent.

Fucknoff, you LOONY OP.

Your opinion sucks, R88.

Oh, the heresy of it all! What a shameful day for DL that not only is a thread like this allowed to be created in the first place, but that it stays put instead of being removed as the defamatory hate speech that it is.

Lesley Ann Warren wipes the floor with Julie Andrews.

[quote]Her tits are really ugly.

I think it was Rex Reed who said they looked like "two empty wallets" in his review of S.O.B.

If I remember correctly, there's a line in the subsequent Victor/Victoria where Andrews uses that same phrase about them.

By the way I haven't seen the movie on decades, but I also remember liking her in the movie Little Miss Marker, which was made around that time period and which co-starred Walter Matthau.

her tits look really good at R27.

We would have had a much better thread if you just asked us to shit on Julie Andrews's human imperfections for fun. Nobody's perfect, but she's associated with some very primal memories for lots of people, like Rosie talks about on the linked video.

The only new thing we're learning here in the sea of things that have been said nine thousand times before is that many of you are bunch of self indulgent old cunts.

She was a client of mine at a store I worked at in NYC. She has a gigantic head.

[quote] She has a gigantic head.

You should have seen it before the cranial reduction surgery! Oh, my legs!

[quote] We would have had a much better thread if you just asked us to shit on Julie Andrews's human imperfections for fun. Nobody's perfect, but she's associated with some very primal memories for lots of people

Then start one like that. Or feel free to take this one over and go in that direction if you like. I said what I came to say, which was that I find her acting quite unappealing and don't understand the praise for her film work. (Never seen her onstage, so I can't comment on that.) I was mostly disagreed with, which is fine. I still stand by my opinion, but was curious if others felt the same way.

I don't know Julie Andrews, nor have I heard anything bad about her personally, so I have nothing to say on that front, and other than her tits, which I do find unattractive, I think she looks fine, so no comments there.

Speaking of Julie Andrews' tits, did it help or harm her to go from Mary Poppins to baring her bazooms in S.O.B.? It seemed more desperate than comic, given that it wasn't like her character just happened to be topless, say, getting out of bed, but that the entire movie seemed geared to get her to rip off her top and give straight guys something to jack off to. From Poppins to Porky's doesn't seem like a step up or a step even needing to be taken.

She didn’t, dippy R98. The films were more than a decade apart.

Boogie Woogie Bugle boys the only song of hers that I know. And that one is pretty good so I don't know why you would say she sucks

You don't deserve to be gay, OP. We are revoking your card.

R27 tits look ok for 45 years old

I've often said this, myself, R101!

I was once in a pub in London, when the most drop dead gorgeous specimen of manhood walked in. Everyone was staring at him, he was unbelievably sexy. Then he opened his mouth. He sounded exactly like Julie Andrews.

Yes OP she was disaster in Mary Poppins AND The Sound of Music. Op a fuckface

She was a lamb....you CUNT!

Prior to her surgery, I could listen to Julie sing for hours on end -but she's never been a very good actress. Unlike her voice, she was very one-note. Kind of like Liza, she was best in a certain kind of role. When you have a role that says "Liza" no one will be better in it. When you have a role that says "Julie" do your best to get her, because she'll do it well. I only met her once, and she was an absolute cunt. Maybe I caught her on a bad night? I just know that since meeting her I've never been able to enjoy any of her performances in quite the same way.

The My Fair Lady and Camelot Broadway cast albums are truly the way I want to remember her.

The Sound of Music is an all time classic as is Mary Poppins. She was perfect in both

Julie Andrew’s is an international treasure.

Streisand is kind of like that too, R108. Same with Esther Williams and Rita Hayworth.

Julie Andrews (as Julie Edwards) wrote one of my favourite children's books, "Mandy". She also narrated it for the taped audiobook, which I found (in three separate sections) somewhere on YouTube.

It's about a little girl in an orphanage whose longing for a family to love drives her into danger.

It's very well-written book and there was no ghost writer involved. I wish she'd continued with a whole series; I would have read them all.

It was Julie Andrews what forced Bai Ling up on the roof.

What I want confirmation on is Andrews’ sexual orientation.

Bisexual would be my presumption.

She showed her tits but she was still Maria to me.

She's still an international treasure. Suck it, haterz!

[quote] I only met her once, and she was an absolute cunt.

R108, can you elaborate?

[quote] Julie Andrew’s is an international treasure.

And yet you still couldn't write her name correctly.

She was extremely rude to everyone around her. Turning her back on people who were trying to talk to her and walking away. Clearly, no one was good enough for her.

Do yourself a favour OP: whatever you're on, cut the dose.

How close is she with her kids. I know her daughter Emma and her are very tight, but what about the others?

R119, she's OLD and entitled