Richard Widmark

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Perhaps the most well-known is The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (ISBN 0064403149). In 2002, Widmark was inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Julie has written several children's books, under the name Julie Andrews Edwards. Other starring roles were in Night and the City, Panic in the Streets, No Way Out, Halls of Montezuma, Destination Gobi, Pickup on South Street, Take the High Ground!, The Cobweb, Backlash, Run for the Sun, The Last Wagon, Warlock, The Alamo, The Secret Ways, Two Rode Together, Judgment at Nuremberg, How the West Was Won, The Long Ships, Cheyenne Autumn, The Bedford Incident, When the Legends Die, Murder on the Orient Express, Coma and Madigan (he also starred in the television series which was based on the latter movie). She also appears in the 2002 List of "100 Great Britons" sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public. In the intervening two years, he had appeared in Slattery's Hurricane, Down to the Sea in Ships, Yellow Sky, Road House and The Street with No Name. Julie received Kennedy Center Honors in 2001.

Widmark became so popular so fast that it was only two years later that he had his handprints cast in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater. 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. Widmark's character in this film was the inspiration for the song, "The Ballad of Tommy Udo" by the band Kaleidoscope. 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. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the performance. 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. Widmark first appeared in movies in 1947's Kiss of Death (in which he giggles as he pushes a wheelchair-bound old woman down a flight of stairs), which started his seven year contract with 20th Century Fox. 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.

He was unable to join the military during World War II because of a perforated eardrum. In the 2000 New Year's Honours she was made a Dame of the British Empire (DBE), becoming Dame Julie Andrews. He appeared on Broadway in 1943 in Kiss and Tell. 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. He taught acting at the college after graduation, before debuting on radio in 1938 in Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories. 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. He grew up in Princeton, Illinois and attended Lake Forest College, where he studied acting. 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.

Richard Widmark (born December 26, 1914 in Sunrise, Minnesota) is an American film actor. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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). 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. She made her stage debut at an early age, appearing in London's West End in 1947. Her earliest public performances were during World War II, entertaining troops throughout the UK with fellow child star Petula Clark.

She was born Julia Elizabeth Wells in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey on October 1, 1935. 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).