UNCLE WALT WAS LEFT BLUSHING
‘I SWEAR a lot,’ Andrews admitted recently. While filming Mary Poppins — released in 1964 — she was supposed to fly through the air on a flywire, but ended up hurtling to the floor ‘like a ton of bricks’.
As a result, she says: ‘I think I said a few words he [producer ‘Uncle’ Walt Disney] had not heard very often.’
A few words? Karen Dotrice, who played her young charge Jane Banks, described her shock as an eight-year- old at seeing Andrews, then 28 — in full prim Edwardian costume — smoking a cigarette and exchanging some blue language with the film crew.
Andrews also admits that she can be feisty, saying: ‘I’ve got a good right hook.’