Julie Andrews

WHEN she was thirteen she sang for the Queen of England£¬at
nineteen she was the toast of Broadway£¬and before she was
thirty£¬Julie Andrews was the best£®10ved£¬highest£®paid enter£®
tainer in the world£®But she was a star before she became a
person£®¡®There was a time when I really did not know who 1
was myself£¬¡¯she said£®¡®So I simply hid behind the roles that I
played£®Performing gave me a sense of identity£®¡¯
£®Fortunately at the time£®perhaps unfortunately in retros£®
pect£¬most of her successful early roles(particularly in the
films Mary Poppins and The Sound ofMusic)had a sameness
and sweetness that may have made her millions of dollars but
also stamped her with an image summed up in a word she
would come to hate£ºwholesome£®¡®She¡¯S got a hell of a cross to
bear£¬¡¯said Blake Edwards£¬her second husband¡ªthey have
been married now for twelve years¡ªand her director in five of
her last six films£®¡®I¡¯d hate to be Mary Poppins£®¡¯
At the peak of her fame she was unhappy enough to submit
to daily psychoanalysis in an attempt to overcome the insec¡ª