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nd terrace scenes, continued in the Hollywood studios and wrapped on eptember 1, 1964.

On its release the following year, Julie won a second Golden Globe.

Behind the scenes, however, her marriage was unravelling.

She writes movingly of wanting to e the adoring wife her husband eserved but feeling the pull of Hollywood while he was unable to give up is work in London and New York. The pair divorced, and in the late 960s, she married US film-maker Blake Edwards, who was 13 years her enior and had two children of his own. She continued starring in films, ncluding playing the lead in her usband’s Darling Lili. The couple tried unsuccessfully for more children. In he mid-1970s they adopted two girls rom Vietnam, Amelia and Joanna. Julie felt increasingly torn between looking after her mum and dad, who lived in the UK, and looking after her children and Blake in the US.

In 1982, Julie starred in British comedy Victor/victoria.

At the end of filming, she would reflect on whether her career would have been even more successful had she not been so devoted to her family.

“Would it have been better if I had sacrificed family, or husband?” she wrote in her diary at the time.

Despite her reservations, she won another Golden Globe.

In 1997, Julie’s singing career was ended after she had throat surgery for strained vocal cords.

Despite assurances her voice would recover, it was permanently damaged and husky. She underwent four corrective surgeries, and in 2000, she won a payout from the hospital. In 2010, Julie lost husband Blake to pneumonia. He was 88.

Ironically considering her initial reservation, looking back, Julie, who was made a Dame for services to performing arts, lauds The Sound of Music as her greatest career success. And its songs stay with her to this day.

“The music, still – and always – lives in my bones and in my soul,” she says.

Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, £20).

Dame Julie will discuss her book at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in association with FANE Productions on November 2.

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