Julie Andrews Says Sudden Success of 'Mary Poppins,' 'The Sound of Music' Was 'Like An Assault'

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Julie Andrews Says Sudden Success of 'Mary Poppins,' 'The Sound of Music' Was 'Like An Assault'
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Hollywood success came so suddenly for JulieAndrews, she said it felt like “an assault”

Julie Andrews attends the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement photocall during the 76th Venice Film Festival on Sept. 3, 2019 in Venice, Italy., she said it felt like “an assault.

Andrews enchanted the audience with tales of her expansive career, regaling them with stories about everything from Walt Disney offering her the role of Mary Poppins — despite the fact that she had never done a film and was three months pregnant — to thanking Jack Warner while accepting her Golden Globe for the part. Warner had passed on her to play Eliza Doolittle in the big screen adaptation of“I had hoped but understood completely when I did not get asked to do the movie for Warner Bros.

She spoke too about her 41-year marriage to the late director Blake Edwards, whom she would act for in a number of films including

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