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Dame Julie repeatedly hit an F sharp above soprano high C during her earlier live stage appearances. She had extreme vocal agility, high range, perfected vocal technique and impeccable diction.
Andrews lost her singing voice following routine surgery to remove a non-cancerous polyp from her vocal cords.
Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett are close friends. They each have a child with the middle name Kate. Carol Burnett is the godmother of Emma Walton, Julie Andrews' biological daughter and only child from her 1959-1967 marriage to Tony Walton.
Andrews has written several children's books under the name Julie Andrews Edwards. Among the best known are Mandy and The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles. She also has collaborated with her daughter, Emma Walton, on the Dumpy children series, illustrated by Walton.
Andrews and Edwards have adopted two daughters from Vietnam, Amy Leigh and Joanna Lynne. Andrews has seven grandchildren.
She was raised with virtually no religious affiliation.
Andrews became a "zealous convert" to Freudian psychoanalysis as an adult. She spent many years in five-days-a-week psychoanalysis and, after initial secrecy about her participation, became a vocal proponent of the practice.
She has 5 children. (Emma Kate, Jenny, Geoffrey, Joanna, and Amy.)
She has had a rose named after her.
In 1991, Andrews was named a Disney Legend.
In the fall of 2005, The Boy Friend, directed by Andrews at The Goodspeed Opera House (in Connecticut) with sets and costumes designed by Tony Walton, became a touring production.
Andrews also served in 2005 as the honorary ambassador for the 50th anniversary celebration of Disneyland. She hosted the ceremony in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle at the park on May 5, 2005 to kick off the celebration.
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley proclaimed November 15, 2005, Julie Andrews Day in that city, calling her an entertainment legend.
Her name is a slang term for how a beverage (usually tea or coffee) should be prepared i.e Milk and no sugar as in Milk and none. Pun on the fact that Julie Andrews played a nun in the film The Sound of Music.
She is one of the many famous women namedropped by Elton John in his 1980 Top 20 hit "Wrap Her Up" from his album Ice on Fire.
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