A RED-HOT SCENE LEFT HER WEAK AT THE KNEES
andreWS was in her late 20s when she moved into films, but admits that she was still painfully naive about men.
Mary Poppins, her first film, didn’t make any calls on her romantically, but The americanisation of emily, a wartime comedy drama also made in 1964, involved filming her first love scene.
Luckily it was with James Garner, one of Hollywood’s most charming male stars. andrews, then 28, admits she was shaking at the prospect of their on- screen love-making. ‘Terrified. i had no idea what one was supposed to do with a kiss and all of that,’ she told aBc TV recently.
‘James Garner, who was delicious, made it very easy and i began to feel it’s getting very hot in here.’
She went on: ‘i thought i can manage this, and i got up and my legs buckled because it really had hit me rather hard.’
asked if she knew much about men at the time, she laughs: ‘no i didn’t!’