Category: Julie Andrews

‘A joyful place’: a new museum coaxes Austrians to embrace The Sound of Music

by The Guardian | Sep 27, 2026 | Austria, Culture, Europe, Film, Julie Andrews, Musicals, The Guardian | 0 |

Sixty years after the film’s release, Salzburg is embracing a Hollywood classic it once kept at arm’s lengthLet’s start at the very beginning – famously, a very good place to start.Just two decades after the second world war, a...

Julie Andrews at 90: the magical nanny with a sideline in the sly, sexy and subversive

by The Guardian | Oct 1, 2025 | Culture, Film, Julie Andrews, Mary Poppins, Music, The Guardian, The Sound of Music | 0 |

Britain’s practically perfect star enters her 10th decade today. To celebrate we look back over the remarkably rich, radical – and sometimes risqué – career of an actor best known for tucking up children in the mid 1960sDame...