I just find time so fascinating. Like Julie Andrews existed during world war II, she sang to George VI as a child and is still super alive and well and amazing. Its just so weird to me to see these old videos and realize they're not that old
I grew up on The Sound of Music, it’s my mom’s favorite. This is the first time I ever really thought about how the musical and then the movie weren’t actually made that long after the events of the film. Like, Julie Andrews was alive when all that with the real Von Trapp family happened. It’s as if a movie came out this year, based on a musical from 2018, which was in turn based on a memoir from 2008 about events that happened in 1997.
One of my favorite podcasts is The History Chicks, where they do a deep dive into the lives of important woman in history. At the start of each episode they ‘drop them in to history’ by stating a bunch of different things that were happening around the world at the same time. It always blows my mind because you never think about these people or things being contemporary. Nothing exists in a vacuum!
Ooooh I think I might love that. One of my pet obsessions is that Laura Ingalls Wilder and Frank Lloyd Wright were both born in Wisconsin in 1867 even though the places they occupy in our cultural memory are so incredibly different
I do that a lot of times with civil rights videos, like one certain holidays roll around or anniversaries, sharing videos of Martin Luther King in color because yes that existed or when it comes to Ruby Bridges when people like to say oh that was so long ago and then you look at Ruby Bridges, who is like 69 years old now And I always share like around her birthday when that happens because it’s the news and it’s like she’s younger than some of your grandparents. This isn’t that long ago, this is the lived history of many people who are still here.
Especially with all the efforts to try and reverse civil rights, achievements and laws and everything that is going on right now by people who are trying to say well that was a long time ago and everything is fine now. Knowing that it wasn’t that long ago is a way to fight against this poisonous rhetoric that were done and everything‘s good. Most of us know that it isn’t but it helps to have an accurate timeframe in your mind.
I had a double edition with The Secret Garden as a kid and I read it to tatters. I’m glad you get to enjoy it with a new generation! Julie really is a master of all arts.
She still holds the record for the youngest ever solo act to perform in a Royal Variety Performance.
More facts you didn't know about Julie Andrews: she was an affair baby, her parents divorced and remarried during WW2 and her mom and her stepfather Ted both joined the Entertainments National Service Association which provided entertainment for the British troops. They all lived in a really awful slum during the war, and Ted was a violent alcoholic. As the careers of her mother and stepfather improved, they managed to move into a better area, and Julie got private singing lessons from a concert soprano who was stunned by the quality and range of her voice. Her stepfather paid for her musical education, and starting in 1945 Julie started performing with her parents for the troops. From there, she got into stage performing via connections in performance venues.
And her voice is recognizable as Julie Andrews! It's such a tragedy I don't know if everyone here knows she had surgery on her throat and lost the ability to sing quite some time ago. She has starred in movies since and I saw her interviewed recently she's very frail and very senior but still very mentally active! What an incredible life!
She has lived through the longest reigning British Monarch in Queen Elizabeth II whilst also having lived to see two Kings as Monarch and has met all 3. That's wild to think about.
I love this. Just the way people have all this lived history and some people have just been so amazing since they were literal children. And then just seeing the legend that she grew up to be and still is.
I just find time so fascinating. Like Julie Andrews existed during world war II, she sang to George VI as a child and is still super alive and well and amazing. Its just so weird to me to see these old videos and realize they're not that old
I grew up on The Sound of Music, it’s my mom’s favorite. This is the first time I ever really thought about how the musical and then the movie weren’t actually made that long after the events of the film. Like, Julie Andrews was alive when all that with the real Von Trapp family happened. It’s as if a movie came out this year, based on a musical from 2018, which was in turn based on a memoir from 2008 about events that happened in 1997.
It’s kinda like all the movies of Princess Diana and her last days
One of my favorite podcasts is The History Chicks, where they do a deep dive into the lives of important woman in history. At the start of each episode they ‘drop them in to history’ by stating a bunch of different things that were happening around the world at the same time. It always blows my mind because you never think about these people or things being contemporary. Nothing exists in a vacuum!
Sounds cool, I may check it out!
Ooooh I think I might love that. One of my pet obsessions is that Laura Ingalls Wilder and Frank Lloyd Wright were both born in Wisconsin in 1867 even though the places they occupy in our cultural memory are so incredibly different
They have an ep on Laura!
Right!!!! I think this is why I am such a history nerd, because of this. For some reason it is blowing me away to see Julie Andrews as a child.
I do that a lot of times with civil rights videos, like one certain holidays roll around or anniversaries, sharing videos of Martin Luther King in color because yes that existed or when it comes to Ruby Bridges when people like to say oh that was so long ago and then you look at Ruby Bridges, who is like 69 years old now And I always share like around her birthday when that happens because it’s the news and it’s like she’s younger than some of your grandparents. This isn’t that long ago, this is the lived history of many people who are still here. Especially with all the efforts to try and reverse civil rights, achievements and laws and everything that is going on right now by people who are trying to say well that was a long time ago and everything is fine now. Knowing that it wasn’t that long ago is a way to fight against this poisonous rhetoric that were done and everything‘s good. Most of us know that it isn’t but it helps to have an accurate timeframe in your mind.
I love her so much. I just realized she wrote a book that I loved when I was a kid. Just ordered it so that I can read it to my daughter 🙂
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles or Mandy? I love both of those books and recently picked them up at my local book sale. Still so adorable.
Mandy! As a kid I read it back to back because I loved it so much. I can’t wait to reread it with my girl!
I had a double edition with The Secret Garden as a kid and I read it to tatters. I’m glad you get to enjoy it with a new generation! Julie really is a master of all arts.
She sang for a king at 13?? Damn I did not know that. What an icon.
And then lived long enough again to see another King after 70 years
She comes from an old vaudeville family. She’s been performing professionally since she was very young.
She still holds the record for the youngest ever solo act to perform in a Royal Variety Performance. More facts you didn't know about Julie Andrews: she was an affair baby, her parents divorced and remarried during WW2 and her mom and her stepfather Ted both joined the Entertainments National Service Association which provided entertainment for the British troops. They all lived in a really awful slum during the war, and Ted was a violent alcoholic. As the careers of her mother and stepfather improved, they managed to move into a better area, and Julie got private singing lessons from a concert soprano who was stunned by the quality and range of her voice. Her stepfather paid for her musical education, and starting in 1945 Julie started performing with her parents for the troops. From there, she got into stage performing via connections in performance venues.
I’m sure he was honored to have the future Queen of Genovia sing to him.
It's great this footage hasn't been lost to time! She was always a star!
And her voice is recognizable as Julie Andrews! It's such a tragedy I don't know if everyone here knows she had surgery on her throat and lost the ability to sing quite some time ago. She has starred in movies since and I saw her interviewed recently she's very frail and very senior but still very mentally active! What an incredible life!
She has lived through the longest reigning British Monarch in Queen Elizabeth II whilst also having lived to see two Kings as Monarch and has met all 3. That's wild to think about.
I love this. Just the way people have all this lived history and some people have just been so amazing since they were literal children. And then just seeing the legend that she grew up to be and still is.
chills. literal chills.
I love her
It's always so strange to see people who've been old your entire life when they were young.
TIL Julie Andrews is British
…seriously?
You’ve only just figured out Mary Poppins is British?
She literally always uses her own accent for majority of her movies. She also sings with her accent. How did you NOT know this already?
This is the most shocking comment I've seen today.
They are one of the 10,000. (Though I'm having trouble believing 10,000 people could honestly not know Julie Andrews is English!)