A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

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In this New York Times bestselling follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home , Julie Andrews reflects on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music , and Victor/Victoria . In Home , the number one New York Times international bestseller, Julie Andrews recounted her difficult childhood and her emergence as an acclaimed singer and performer on the stage. With this second memoir, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years , Andrews picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her phenomenal rise to fame in her earliest films -- Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music . Andrews describes her years in the film industry -- from the incredible highs to the challenging lows. Not only does she discuss her work in now-classic films and her collaborations with giants of cinema and television, she also unveils her personal story of adjusting to a new and often daunting world, dealing with the demands of unimaginable success, being a new mother, the end of her first marriage, embracing two stepchildren, adopting two more children, and falling in love with the brilliant and mercurial Blake Edwards. The pair worked together in numerous films, including Victor/Victoria , the gender-bending comedy that garnered multiple Oscar nominations. Cowritten with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, and told with Andrews's trademark charm and candor, Home Work takes us on a rare and intimate journey into an extraordinary life that is funny, heartrending, and inspiring.

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Like her iconic Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews might just be perfect in every way. The actress’ follow-up to 2008’s Home —which looked at her pre-fame years—starts with her arrival in Hollywood. It continues her remarkable rags-to-riches story, charting the personal and professional highs and lows she’s experienced during her movie career. Fans of Andrews’ beloved films, from The Sound of Music to Victor/Victoria , will delight in her fond behind-the-scenes reminiscences. She also writes about personal relationships, especially with her late husband, Blake Edwards, with honesty and dignity. Home Work isn’t a dirt-dishing, score-settling memoir, but that’s not what we’d ever expect—or want—from Andrews.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY OCT 28, 2019

Singer and actor Andrews, writing with her daughter Hamilton, offers a sincere and inspiring account of her life, focusing on her Hollywood years beginning in 1962. After a brief recap of her youth in England (covered in more detail in her earlier memoir, Home), Andrews recounts her first movie role in Mary Poppins and her experiences in the Disney studios, where Walt Disney himself offered "fatherly kindness" to the young actress, who was newly a mother and married to her childhood sweetheart, set and costume designer Tony Walton. Her next big role again, as a nanny was in The Sound of Music. Writing of her role in 1966's Torn Curtain, she shares behind-the-scenes tales of Alfred Hitchcock's wry humor, as well as shooting an "anything but dreamy" love scene with Paul Newman. Her marriage collapsed from the strain of work and travel, but in 1969 she met the mercurial producer Blake Edwards at a traffic intersection on Sunset Boulevard. Andrews shares tales of her colleagues (Peter Sellers was testy on The Pink Panther set; Dudley Moore charmed her in Ten) as well as her efforts to stabilize her marriage to Edwards (they remained married until his death in 2010). This charming account of Andrews's professional and personal life will no doubt serve to make the venerated performer all the more beloved.

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A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

Home Work

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  • " Home Work is a quiet revelation. And by quiet I don't mean dull. The book is packed with emotion, action, gossip, and fascinating tidbits about craft. The Julie Andrews we get to know is salty, funny, passionate, hard-working, gracious, and above all, a brilliant vocalist and actress who has braved many disappointments." O Magazine
  • "A frank and intimate storyteller whose radiant spirit fills these pages, Andrews chronicles the peaks and valleys of her life and career. This event-packed memoir is a must for fans of Andrews's life and work, students of cinema history, and anyone who is curious about musical film production." Library Journal (starred review)
  • "Details Andrews' transformation from traveling performer to movie star." Los Angeles Times, Book Club Pick
  • "Shares reflections on Andrews's astonishing career, and discusses her famous roles in Mary Poppins , The Sound of Music , Victor/Victoria , and more." Bustle, New Celebrity Memoirs that Will Leave You Starstruck This Fall
  • "A warm, entertaining memoir...An insightful treat for Andrews's fans." Kirkus Reviews
  • "[ Home Work gives] readers long-awaited details about [Julie Andrew's] earliest films like Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music.... Andrews continues to approach life -- and writing -- with strength and grace." People
  • "Full of delicious details...and poignant recollections." Long Island Living
  • "Sincere and inspiring...This charming account of Andrews's professional and personal life will no doubt serve to make the venerated performer all the more beloved." Publishers Weekly
  • "[W]arm, graceful, and candid... This deeply pleasurable and forthright chronicle illuminates the myriad reasons 'home work' has such profound meaning for artist and humanitarian Andrews... [a] treasury of delectable Hollywood revelations." Booklist
  • "The inside-look into the perils and stress of movie making, and the honest portrayal of Andrews' struggles to blend her career, home life, and complicated personal matters offers a rich glimpse into a resilient star. Edward's mercurial but brilliant and generous nature is vividly recounted...her memoir makes it vividly clear that her stardom was not an easy path to achieve." The Missourian
  • "Thrillingly honest but never unkind, Andrews mixes fascinating behind-the-scenes stories of filming... with moving revelations....This enchanting memoir reveals Andrews as a rare creature: a mega-star whose feet remain firmly on the ground." Daily Mail
  • "Julie Andrews's two memoirs, Home and Home Work , are at once heartbreaking and awe-inspiring." "Our Mothers Ourselves"
  • "[ Home Work ] is everything you could hope for and more." Scribbles by Kat

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HOME WORK covers Julie Andrews’ years working in Hollywood on various movies, including Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music . Written with her oldest child, Emma Walton Hamilton, she reflects on her extraordinary film career and its effect on her personal life as she learns to navigate her meteoric rise to fame.

The mother/daughter duo co-wrote Andrews’ first memoir, HOME, which focuses on her life growing up during World War II, her experiences with vaudeville in her teens and performing on Broadway in her early 20s. In the Introduction to HOME WORK, Andrews offers a concise summary of the highlights of HOME to give readers the relevant details of her early life and to help them place family relationships and events in context when those people are referenced in the pages that follow.

"As she continues to talk about her amazing film career during the time period covered in HOME WORK, Andrews’ grace, decency and devotion to her craft shine through on each and every page."

The book opens as Andrews is cast in Mary Poppins and heads to Los Angeles to meet with Walt Disney himself and other relevant people whose job it is to prepare her for the lead role. She recounts her steep learning curve as she adjusts to the process of filming a movie versus staging a Broadway show. These reminiscences are brimming with in-depth, fascinating glimpses into both the creation of the movie and the personalities of the actors with whom she worked, and she regales readers with stories that provide just the right balance between the two. Particularly intriguing are her descriptions of creating the special effects: “So often, the film called for something that had never been achieved before in terms of special effects. It was up to Walt’s brilliant technical crew to figure out how to make it happen.”

Andrews’ discussion of the filming of The Sound of Music contains the same thoughtful recounting of behind-the-scenes tales, but she also addresses her initial reluctance to accept the role because she had not loved the Broadway production of the show and hated to be cast again as a nanny so early in her career. While the movie did not require the rigorous, occasionally dangerous and often time-consuming special effects that were necessary in Mary Poppins , The Sound of Music had its own challenges and initially was not well-received by the critics.

As she continues to talk about her amazing film career during the time period covered in HOME WORK, Andrews’ grace, decency and devotion to her craft shine through on each and every page. And the fact that she wrote the book with her daughter lends an additional layer of genuineness and authenticity to her depiction of her life story.

In her Epilogue, Andrews offers some advice to aspiring performers: “Learn your craft. Do your homework. Opportunity will come along when you least expect it, as it did for me. You may not even recognize it at the time. Your job is to be as ready as possible when that good fortune comes your way.” While she directs this guidance to those seeking to succeed in her profession, these wise words will benefit anyone who heeds them regardless of his or her job.

HOME WORK traces Andrews’ career through 1986, focusing on both her personal life and her professional body of work during those years. It provides an unparalleled glimpse into these remarkable chapters of her life and will leave readers hoping for a third memoir in the not-too-distant future.

Reviewed by Cindy Burnett on October 18, 2019

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Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews with Emma Walton Hamilton

  • Publication Date: October 13, 2020
  • Genres: Entertainment , Memoir , Nonfiction , Performing Arts
  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Hachette Books
  • ISBN-10: 0316349240
  • ISBN-13: 9780316349246

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Publisher's summary

In this New York Times best-selling follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home , Julie Andrews reflects on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins , The Sound of Music , and Victor/Victoria .  

In Home , the number-one New York Times international best seller, Julie Andrews recounted her difficult childhood and her emergence as an acclaimed singer and performer on the stage. 

With this second memoir, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years , Andrews picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her phenomenal rise to fame in her earliest films - Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music . Andrews describes her years in the film industry - from the incredible highs to the challenging lows. Not only does she discuss her work in now-classic films and her collaborations with giants of cinema and television, she also unveils her personal story of adjusting to a new and often daunting world, dealing with the demands of unimaginable success, being a new mother, the end of her first marriage, embracing two stepchildren, adopting two more children, and falling in love with the brilliant and mercurial Blake Edwards. The pair worked together in numerous films, including Victor/Victoria , the gender-bending comedy that garnered multiple Oscar nominations. 

Cowritten with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, and told with Andrews's trademark charm and candor, Home Work takes us on a rare and intimate journey into an extraordinary life that is funny, heartrending, and inspiring.

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"Julie Andrews, along with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, have put together an elegant memoir of Andrews's Hollywood years.... Delivering many of her insightful diary entries, Andrews sounds sincerely amazed and delighted.... Andrews acknowledges her gifts, but she attributes much of her success to luck. We're the lucky ones - to have Andrews and this audio gem." ( AudioFile Magazine)

"[ Home Work gives] readers long-awaited details about [Julie Andrew's] earliest films like Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music .... Andrews continues to approach life - and writing - with strength and grace." ( People ) 

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First things first: Julie Andrews is probably the single greatest hero of my childhood, and to this day, I pretty much think she walks on water. It's really hard for me to give this three stars. However. I've learned while listening to this memoir that there are two qualities that make a good memoir: plot (stuff happening to the person) and storytelling (the personal, emotional journey). This memoir is absolutely full of the former and sadly lacking in the latter. She told her story as though it had happened to someone else. It was almost journalistic in its detachment. So I was a little disappointed. On the upside, I haven't seen her entire filmography, and based on this memoir, there are now a few more I want to see. So that's cool.

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A bit detailed in parts, but great overall

Summary: Second, in what is probably a trilogy of memoirs, roughly covering 1963 to 1986. It has been almost exactly nine years since I read, and loved, Julie Andrews’ first memoir Home. That memoir of her early years in vaudeville and her time in the theater and the breakout roles on Broadway was well told and extremely well narrated. This memoir, Home Work, picks up with the filming of Mary Poppins, right where the first memoir left off. I mostly listened to Home Work, with some occasional reading on kindle (I bought both on sale). The production of this audiobook did not use any music as the first one did, but that makes sense because the period is covering an era when Julie Andrews was mostly acting in film and rather than being known for singing in variety shows or specials on TV. The weakness of Home Work is an expanded version of the problems of Home, the detail. I am not sure how to avoid the issue as a writer. As a reader, especially as a reader that has not seen any of her movies between Sound of Music and Princess Diaries, the details about shooting and costars was not why I picked up the book. I am sure others are more interested in that portion of the book. What was engaging about Home and was also present here is her introspection. Mostly she is opening herself up to the world and sharing what her life has been like. The level of drug abuse and alcoholism around her is tragic, with children, siblings, parents, her husband. She shares freely about her struggles of depression as well as the depression of her husband and many others. There are more than a few suicide attempts by those around her. Home Work is a story of ‘more money, more problems’. Her first marriage ended essentially because both she and her husband were never together. After all, they were pursuing separate careers in the film world. She had long stints filming around the world, and he had long jobs designing films (so that even when they were working on the same movies, they were not working at the same time). Later, when she married her second husband, Blake Edwards, a director, and mostly working together on movies, they bought houses and boats and spent money taking care of dependent relatives so that they felt compelled to keep working. It was a bitter cycle; they had to work to pay for their lifestyle, but also had to pay for assistants and nannies and people to take care of their homes because they were working all the time. It is incredible to think that Julie Andrews had filmed Mary Poppins, The Americanization of Emily, and The Sound of Music before any of them were released. From 1964 to 1986, she starred in 20 full-length movies, was the host of two TV seasons where she hosted a show and did about 10 network specials. That is in addition to occasionally touring as a singer. During that same time, she had her daughter from her first marriage, two stepchildren from a second marriage, two adopted children and cared for a much younger half brother. She started psychotherapy reasonably early in her film career, and I think that probably matters to how she introspectively tells the story of her life. (She also frequently quotes extended sections of her diaries.) Her need to care for the people around her, from financially supporting her parents by the age of 16, to caring for a whole host of family and people around her throughout her life, I think she does accurately talk about the importance of home to her. The reason she wanted a home in Switzerland, and worked hard to keep primary residence there, was that she was trying to build a safe place for family. The pressure she accepted to care for others was enormous, not helped by her second husband, who also needed constant care between his depression and addictions to pain pills. Julie Andrews did not participate in the drug and sex culture of Hollywood, but it still impacted her. She worked hard and tried to take her art seriously. She appreciated that she had been lucky and was rewarded for her talent, while others with equal or more considerable talent had not. In the end, while I did not think that Home Work was quite as good as Home, I did very much enjoy it, and I do have even more respect for her than I did before, and I will immediately pick up the next memoir when it eventually comes out.

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How can I love and admire an artist so much and yet be bored out of my skull reading/listening to their bio? It pains me to write it, but, for me, it is true. I adore Julie. Maybe she's just too good of a girl to make it an interesting read. I didn't even make it half way through. I don't hold it against you, Julie. You will always be one of the greats.

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A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT

The first book of Ms. Andrews memoirs ('Home') was absolutely outstanding and I have been excited for years for her to write the second part of her memoirs. What a major disappointment now that I have listen to the second part ('Homework'). Her first memoir was beautifully written and researched while this second memoir was neither. It is nothing but a series of minute details strung together. I can't imagine that it took more than a day to write. The editors should never have accepted such shoddy work and Ms. Andrews should be embarrassed to have submitted it for publishing. On a side note, one could not help but feel sorry for Ms. Andrews' home life as an adult. My goodness, all the poor lady seemed to do was fly to back and forth to Switzerland (with stops in London) so that she (and Blake) could avoid paying taxes. She would goes MONTHS without seeing her infant children who she would leave in the care of nannies (the poor kids would be heartbroken when the nannies were replaced). When reading her first memoir, I thought that her own childhood was sad, but it seems like a picnic compared to the bizarre upbringing that Ms. Andrews (and Blake) staged for their children. Obviously, fame and fortune are no guarantees of either happiness or stability nor do they create a foundation for a responsible home life.

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A truly enjoyable listen all the way through!

Highly recommend this book to any Julie Andrews fan! I found this book captivating all the way through. Her stories were shared without restraint, and she spoke from the heart about the joys and difficulties of her life. Her own narration in the audiobook was incredibly enjoyed and appreciated. Loved getting a glimpse of the inner world of a true Hollywood icon. Julie Andrews is one of a kind!

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I see from other reviewers that I am not alone in feeling disappointed. The parts of her story that deal with film making and what goes into creating the magic on screen is very interesting, but there are long sections of famity drama and dysfunction, and a lot of globe trotting; yet she wants to convey that her life was challenging and the psychoanalysis is the cure-all for emotional dysfunction. Dame Julie is a class act, but this story is a bit of a whitewash. I guess that's her perogative, but it makes for rather dull reading.

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So wonderful to hear julie Andrews narrate her amazing story. Like a warm comforting bath!

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It's Julie Andrews. Who could ask for anything more? I absolutely loved it and can't wait for part III!

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Julie Andrews is a lovely woman who had led a remarkable life. But the storyline is meandering and dull. Too many details and minutiae. No build up, no drama. Just a recitation of facts and details

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Boring second half

I prayed it would finally end. The beginning was good and the rest bored me. Disappointing.

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Dame Julie Andrews at the 76th Venice Film Festival in 2019 in Venice, Italy

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The scene is at once totally charming, enormously on-brand for Andrews—who has the purest heart, it would seem, in show business—and quietly telling. Mary Poppins, the acerbic, reality-bending, devastatingly self-assured nanny who sweeps down from the sky on an anthropomorphized umbrella in Walt Disney’s groundbreaking 1964 movie, was the first heady obsession of countless little girls, myself included. But for Andrews, Poppins was far more complicated. Both that particular role and one that followed, The Sound of Music ’s Maria von Trapp, became distinct amalgamations of actor and character; it was hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. If Andrews does cocaine, Mary does it too. (Which would bring a bold new meaning to “Jolly Holiday.”) Before she turned 30, Andrews had played two of the most canonical female characters in film—a kind of reputational alchemy that is hard for an actor to reverse.

Looking back at her career now, Andrews, who’s 84, told me in October—when she called from her home in Long Island to discuss Home Work —that what surprises her most is how arduous it all was. “What I learned from writing the book was how hard I was working on any given day, whether I was doing the movie or learning the choreography or perfecting something or doing a costume fitting,” she said. Andrews has lived in the U.S. now for longer than she lived in England, but her diction is still markedly precise and she occasionally blesses humble words with more syllables than they typically get to contain. (Hawaii is pronounced huh-why-YEE, while “mum” is thrillingly continuant, like mumm .) Andrews is a dame of the British Empire, an Academy Award winner, an author with what she describes as a “small, you know, imprint,” and No. 59 on the BBC’s polled list of the 100 Greatest Britons, 11 spots ahead of Jane Austen. At this point in life, she’s settled into her status as one of the most regal, gracious, and reassuring presences in entertainment, serenely embracing “dear Lady Gaga” onstage at the 2015 Oscars, and spoofing her own reputation by voicing the cruel matriarch Marlena Gru (“the worst lady I’ve ever played”) in the Despicable Me franchise. What she wants to make clear now isn’t that Mary and Maria were characters, but that they were work.

Home Work , her second memoir (this one co-published with her eldest daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton), is an account of what happened between Andrews’s film debut in 1964’s Mary Poppins and her performance in the 1982 movie Victor/Victoria . The motivation for the book, Andrews told me, was twofold. After the 2008 publication of her first memoir, Home , which detailed her difficult childhood and her earliest days as a performer, fans and friends had urged her to dive into the next phase. “The first one ended as I was heading to Hollywood,” she said, “so of course everybody said, ‘When, when, when are you going to do the next one?’ Because they wanted to hear all that.” Home , in other words, ended right before the moment when Andrews took the role that would change her life.

The book is a dance between candor and diplomacy, as Andrews navigates the imperative of honesty with the courteousness that seems to be her governing instinct. Implicit in the book’s title is a reminder: For most of us, Mary Poppins and Maria von Trapp are pleasures, diaphanous cultural entities, but for Andrews, they were jobs—demanding, exhausting work. The steel panels of the harness Andrews wore to film flying scenes for Mary Poppins left her hips badly bruised, and in one scene, the wires suspending her failed, leading to a catastrophic fall. For the opening scene of The Sound of Music , in which an aerial camera swoops in from above over verdant alpine scenery to reveal Andrews’s Maria, the shot was captured from a helicopter, and every time it completed a take and rose up to return to its original position, the downdraft from the engine flung Andrews to the ground. “I’d haul myself up, spitting mud and grass and brushing it off my dress, and trek back to my starting position,” she writes. “Each time the helicopter encircled me, I was flattened again.”

If the book was going to be a memoir, Andrews told me, then it might as well be frank. There are revelations about Rex Harrison (“imperious and impatient”) and James Garner, with whom Andrews filmed her first love scene in 1964’s The Americanization of Emily —after which her legs “literally buckled beneath me” when she tried to get up from the on-set bed. There are also accounts of marital tension, family members falling into addiction, and Andrews’s efforts, as she started undergoing psychoanalysis, to address what she finally realizes is “a fundamental sense of inadequacy.” In Home , Andrews relayed the reality of her childhood and early experiences as a performer: the seedy stages of vaudeville, the backdrop of the Blitz, what she describes as the abusive behavior of her stepfather, a Canadian tenor called Ted Andrews. Those years had instilled in her a powerful foundation for life as a performer, thanks to singing lessons and the pressure of having to work to support her family financially. But these years robbed her, she felt, of an education, and of the chance to make an active decision about who and what she really wanted to be.

The level of fame she reached during the 1960s took away still more of her individuality, as she became known for who she wasn’t—the saintly Maria, the practically perfect Mary, even Audrey Hepburn, who played the movie version of the My Fair Lady role Andrews originated onstage—rather than who she was. In 1974, a decade after Mary Poppins , Andrews and Edwards were interviewed by the British TV presenter Michael Parkinson . “Did you resent … this thing that people expect you to be something that one imagines that you’re not?” Parkinson asks. Andrews’s face during the question is a model of glacial restraint, as she absorbs this wholly unoriginal line of interrogation. “Really, it was a slow-growing thing,” she replies. Parkinson turns to Edwards. “How much is she like—if we can stick with this Mary Poppins thing for just a moment longer?” “If you insist,” Andrews interjects, with the steely poise of a queen facing down a particularly impertinent court jester.

Andrews dealt with the strangeness of her reputation the same way that many people try to overcome their issues: in therapy, which she began in the mid-1960s, around the same time she started regularly keeping a diary. Analysis was, she said, transformative. “I’d always admired the friends of mine who had been in therapy,” she told me. “They seemed to have a clarity and an understanding of themselves, and of life, and I wanted it. And I needed it, by the time I asked for it.” Writing, too, seems to have been clarifying. Andrews’s authorial voice in Home Work is authentic; her narrative is stately, funny, open, and characterized by an outright refusal to indulge in self-pity. It’s also enhanced by excerpts from her diaries, which convey some sense of how heavy she could find the emotional burden of performing. During a stint of Vegas shows in 1977, she describes a feeling she imagines as “that small dot, tiny and black at my core.” She wants to “catch it, look at it, wipe it clean. It is to do with the deepest me.”

It feels noteworthy that most of the acting Andrews has done over the past 15 years has been voice-over work—something that allows her to lean in to comedy, and a wider range of characters, while also keeping her presence off-camera. “Oo-er,” she said about Marlena Gru. “She’s the most terrifying character. But such fun too.” When I asked her if she was surprised that so many little girls are still falling wildly in love with Mary Poppins, she said that first and foremost, she was profoundly grateful. “I mean, look at what she did for me, and for so many others.” The work, she’s come to realize, is what matters the most—not the way it’s received afterward. The interpretation or longevity of a performance can’t be anticipated or controlled. But “the doing,” she writes in Home Work , “is everything.”

L.A. Times Book Club selects Julie Andrews’ ‘Home Work’

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The Los Angeles Times Book Club has announced its latest selection: “ Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years ” by Julie Andrews.

The actress, singer, author and star of iconic Hollywood and Broadway productions will join readers on Nov. 18 at the Orpheum Theatre. Andrews will be in conversation about “Home Work” with The Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mary McNamara .

The book, scheduled to be released Oct. 15, details Andrews’ transformation from traveling performer to movie star, starting with her breakthrough Disney role as “Mary Poppins.” Andrews wrote “Home Work” with daughter Emma Walton Hamilton. It’s a sequel to “Home,” her 2008 bestseller detailing a difficult childhood growing up in England and early years on the vaudeville stage.

The Nov. 18 event, hosted by the book club and the Times Ideas Exchange, begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Orpheum in downtown Los Angeles. Get tickets .

On Oct. 21, the L.A. Times Book Club welcomes Michael Connelly in conversation with Times reporter Jeffrey Fleishman about “ The Night Fire ,” the latest novel featuring detectives Harry Bosch and Renée Ballard.

On Tuesday night, actor and author George Takei joined Times readers at the Montalban Theatre to talk about “ They Called Us Enemy ,” a graphic memoir about childhood years in Japanese American internment camps during World War II.

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January Book Club | Home Work by Julie Andrews

I realize I am behind on writing about our book club books, but I have been taking this time in quarantine to get caught up on all things photo, blogging, and books. In January, we read Home Work: A Memoir of my Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews ( you can get your copy here ). Who doesn’t love Julie Andrews? Sound of Music is a classic! Mary Poppins had some of my favorite songs as a kid, and I loved watching her play the role of Queen Clarisse in the Princess Diaries ! She was so charming.

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Honestly, I knew Julie Andrews was an accomplished actress and singer because I knew these three movies well, but I was surprised to hear of all the other work she did as an actress! I was also surprised at how someone who came from such a hard life, rose to so much! She has a very heartwarming perspective on life and especially after reading this book, I was made aware of what a privilege It would be to work with her or even meet her. What an honor to be able to sit down over a cup of tea with such an amazing person. Can you even imagine?

Paige chose this book and so I had her answer a few questions for us.

  • Why did you choose this book? I chose this book because I have always LOVED Julie Andrews! The Sound of Music has always been one of my favorite movies, even since I was a little girl! So, of course I wanted to know all the details of her life.
  • What was one take away you had?  My biggest take away from this book is that the movie star life is not as glamorous as It may appear! They deal with so many things on the daily basis that I could never dream of! It made me appreciate my simple life a lot more.
  • What surprised you most about Julie Andrews? Her childhood and her life was hard. She always appeared to me as someone who always had It together and lived the most perfect life… It was actually quite the opposite!
  • What did you like most about this book? What did you like the least? My favorite part of the book was learning all the behind the scenes moments from some of her greatest films! My least favorite part was that she never talked about The Princess Diaries ! It’s one of my favorites and I wanted to hear all her filming stories.
  • Would you recommend this book to others?  If you are a fan of Julie Andrews (and who isn’t really?!) then I would recommend this book! It was really fun getting to know her on a personal level. I also highly recommend listening to this book on audiobook because she reads It herself which made It so fun!

I totally agree with Paige! I listened to this book, and it was really beautiful to hear her tell her own story ( find the audiobook here ). I also thought that hearing how they filmed certain scenes, especially Mary Poppins (because of how little film technology was available at the time) was fascinating! People are so creative! I loved this book and It really made me want to read her first book… Home: A Memoir of My Earlier Years.

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