Julie Andrews

Perhaps the most well-known is The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (ISBN 0064403149). Since February 2003, Senta Berger has been president of the German Film Academy, who want to advance the new generation of actors and actresses in Germany and Europe and who will decide the assignment of the German Film Awards in the future. Julie has written several children's books, under the name Julie Andrews Edwards. In the same year, she also started a career as a singer of Chansons. She also appears in the 2002 List of "100 Great Britons" sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public. Afterwards further serial hits follow, like “The fast Gerti”, where she plays a taxi driver. Julie received Kennedy Center Honors in 2001. In 1985/86, she started a comeback in front of German-speaking audiences in the very poular TV serial “Kir Royal”.

For this last performance, late night television comedian Johnny Carson thanked Andrews for "showing us that the hills were still alive", alluding to her most famous line from the Sound of Music. Between 1974 and 1982, she played the “Buhlschaft” in the play “Jedermannn” at the Salzburg Festival with Curd Jürgens and Maximilian Schell. Her roles in Blake Edwards's films could be seen as an attempt to break away from this image: in 10 her character is a no-nonsense career woman; in Victor/Victoria she plays a woman pretending to be a male transvestite, and, perhaps most notoriously, in S.O.B. she plays a character very similar to herself, who agrees (with some pharmaceutical persuasion) to "show my boobies" in a scene in the film-within-the-film. She successfully played at the Burgtheater in Vienna, at the Thaliatheater in Hamburg and at the Schillertheater in Berlin. Dame Julie's career is said to have suffered from typecasting, as her two most famous roles in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music cemented her image as a "sugary sweet" personality best known for working with children. The birth of her two sons caused Senta to turn back to the theatre. Since then she has been struggling to recover her singing voice, following a throat operation, but had a short tour of the USA at the end of 2002 with Christopher Plummer, Charlotte Church, Max Howard, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Berger continued to develop her European career in France and Italy.

In the 2000 New Year's Honours she was made a Dame of the British Empire (DBE), becoming Dame Julie Andrews. Other internationally successful films made by the duo included, amongst others, Die weiße Rose, The terrible girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen) and Mutters Courage. She has also starred in two made-for-television movies based on the character of Eloise, the moppet who lives at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. In 1970, she starred for the first time in a film produced by her own company and directed by her husband. Her film career was revived by director Garry Marshall, who cast her in The Princess Diaries and its sequel, both of which proved to be major box office hits. In 1966, they married, after starting up their own film production company the previous year. She starred in Julie on Sesame Street, an ABC television special, in 1973, but the greatest critical acclaim accorded her TV work was for her variety show specials with Carol Burnett. In 1963, Berger met Michael Verhoeven, son of the German film director Paul Verhoeven (not the Dutch Paul Verhoeven).

Both were damaging to Andrews' subsequent career and, despite several starring roles in musical and non-musical films - including some directed by her husband, Blake Edwards, such as 10, Victor/Victoria, and S.O.B., she was seen very rarely on screen during the 1980s and '90s. An offer for a series role, which would have brought an obligation of several years with itself, was the reason for their return to Germany. Star!, a 1968 biography of Gertrude Lawrence, and Darling Lili, with Rock Hudson (1970), are often cited by critics as major contributors to the decline of the movie musical. In 1962, she went to Hollywood and worked with stars such as Charlton Heston, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne and Yul Brynner. As a result, she appeared in the three-hour epic Hawaii, co-starring with Max von Sydow, and Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain with Paul Newman (both in 1966), and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), with Mary Tyler Moore and Carol Channing. Brauner used Senta Berger in several films, but soon she tired of musicals. She was nominated again, the following year, for her role as Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965), and thus became, briefly, one of the most sought-after stars in Hollywood. More and more directors and producers wanted to work with her, for example Bernhard Wicki and Arthur Brauner, who produced the film The Good Soldier Schweijk with Berger and Heinz Rühmann, a famous German actor.

When she lost the starring role in the film of My Fair Lady to Audrey Hepburn, she received the consolation of the starring role in Walt Disney's musical version of Mary Poppins (1964), winning a Best Actress Academy Award as a result (notably, Hepburn wasn't even in the running). Her ambition was still to be a film actress. She graduated through radio (on the show Educating Archie) and theatre to starring in stage productions of musicals such as The Boyfriend, My Fair Lady, and Camelot. In 1958, she became the youngest member of the Josefstadt theatre in Vienna. She made her stage debut at an early age, appearing in London's West End in 1947. She applied for the Max Reinhardt Seminar, a famous acting school in Vienna, and was accepted, shortly afterwards was forced to leave, because she had accepted a film role without permission. Her earliest public performances were during World War II, entertaining troops throughout the UK with fellow child star Petula Clark. In 1957, she won her first small role in a film.

She was born Julia Elizabeth Wells in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey on October 1, 1935. Berger then took private acting lessons. Dame Julie Andrews is a British actress, singer, and author, best known for her starring roles in the musical films Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965). But her dream of a career as a dancer was destroyed by her last teacher, who did not like the physical changes in Senta during puberty. At the age of five she started ballet lessons. With him, Senta first appeared on stage at the age of four, where he accompanied his daughter's singing on the piano.

Her father, from whom she probably inherited talent, was a musician. Senta Berger's parents were not rich, but tried everything to meet the desires of their daughter. Senta Berger (born May 13, 1941, in Vienna) is an Austrian actress and producer.