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Cobstone Mill, Turville Hill, Buckinghamshire, was built about 1816, replacing an original 16th century flour mill, and continued in use until 1873. After a fire and long deterioration, the structure's appearance was sufficiently restored for it to be used in the film 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' (1968) as the supposed home of inventor Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke). Later, the mill and its cottage were fully restored as living accommodation by the actress Hayley Mills and her film-maker husband Roy Boulting. It has since featured in a number of both films and television programmes. The mill directly overlooks the picturesque old village of Turville, itself a very popular location for TV productions that include The Vicar of Dibley, Midsomer Murders, Lewis, Miss Marple, Foyle's War, Killing Eve, Jonathan Creek, and Little Britain.
The mill remains a private home. The terrain and obstructions mean that those who make the long trudge up from the village expecting a better view find that the closer they get the less they can see. This photograph was taken from a neighbouring hill.
I promised to take some photos when my traditional playscale kicksleds are in action and here they are!
This is how you use kicksled: one foot is on a skid and another kicks speed! When the sled is in a good speed, both feet are on skids and you just steer and enjoy the free ride!
Completely eco-friendly!
Kicksled is a nice vehicle and has only one true enemy: sanding :-(
Weather is just perfect for this outdoor activity at the moment: roads are icy and it's actually difficult to stay up without Nordic walking poles or kick sled.
Billy Crystal, Robin Williams & Dick Van Dyke at Comic Relief March 26, 1986 - ©2014 Peter Duke - All Rights Reserved (all rights reserved BuzzFeed)
It's a few hours early, but while assembling some Easter baskets I thought I would squeeze in a mini photo shoot, so ta da! Happy Easter everybody!
Old Mary Poppins vinyl album with Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke on the cover, picture taken at an antique store in Brookfield Illinois.
Bien,pues he aquí una sombrera loca,puedo ser yo misma o puede ser Mary Poppins,que no está nada loca,es de las pocas personas que me comprenden,.Aquí dejo una de mis escenas favoritas de esta gran película de Walt Disney porque,al igual que ella,pienso que todo se arregla con un poco de azúcar............Hasta el 31 de enero en La Bottega dell´Arte Burgos,en la exposición colectiva del Tercer Mercado de Arte de cuadros de pequeño formato.
In every job that must be done
There is an element of fun
You find the fun and snap the job's a game
And every task you undertake becomes a piece of cake
A lark! a spree!
It’s very clear to see
Chorus
That a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go do-own
The medicine go doown
A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way
Repeat chorus
A robin feathering his nest
Has very little time to rest
While gathering bits of twine and twig
Though quite intent in his pursuit
He has a merry tune to toot
He knows a song will move the job along
For a
Repeat chorus
Y... se convierte en un juego.
Y divertiros lograréis,
mejor si así lo hacéis.
El ser feliz, un juego es al fin...
Con un poco de azúcar esa píldora que os dan,
la píldora que os dan...
pasará mejor.
Si hay un poco de azúcar,
esa píldora que os dan satisfechos tomaréis.
Construye el pájaro su hogar,
con brío y con afán lo véis
sus hojas y ramitas transportar...
Pero no obstante su inquietud,
su canto va de norte a sur.
Y su labor
convierte en diversión...
Con un poco de azúcar esa píldora que os dan,
la píldora que os dan,
pasará mejor.
Si hay un poco de azúcar, esa píldora que os dan
satisfechos tomaréis.
Lleva la abeja a su panal
el dulce néctar de la flor,
pero siempre vuela y vuela con tesón.
Y cada gota de elixir, de cada flor,
se guarda al fin.
Y así (así...)
igual (igual...)
alegra el trabajar...
Con un poco de azúcar...
pepe, pedro's pet burro, being petted by a Playmate -- Hostess, while pedro (heezself?) looks on, under the giant new SOMBRERO BUILDING BRIM
French postcard by Les Presses de Belleville, Paris, no. 105. Photo: Walt Disney Productions. Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964). Caption: The film that won 5 Oscars.
English film and stage actress, singer, and author Julie Andrews (1935) was a former child actress and singer who rose to prominence starring in such stage musicals as My Fair Lady and Camelot. She is best known for her roles in the films Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965). Her voice spanned four octaves until it was damaged by a throat operation in 1997. In the 2000’s she had a major revival of her film career in family films such as The Princess Diaries (2001) and the Shrek animated films (2004–2010).
Julie Andrews was born Julia Elizabeth Wells in Walton-on-Thames, England, in 1935. Her mother, music hall performer Barbara Wells (née Morris), was married to Edward C. ‘Ted’ Wells, a teacher of metal and woodworking, but Andrews was conceived as a result of an affair her mother had with a family friend. With the outbreak of World War II, Barbara and Ted Wells went their separate ways. Ted Wells assisted with evacuating children to Surrey during the Blitz, while Barbara joined Ted Andrews in entertaining the troops through the good offices of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). Barbara and Ted Wells were soon divorced. Barbara remarried to Ted Andrews in 1939. Julie had lessons at the Cone-Ripman School, an independent arts educational school in London, and then with the famous concert soprano and voice instructor Lilian Stiles-Allen. She continued her academic education at the Woodbrook School, a local state school in Beckenham. Julie performed spontaneously and unbilled on stage with her parents for about two years beginning in 1945. She got her big break when her stepfather introduced her to Val Parnell, whose Moss Empires controlled prominent venues in London. Andrews made her professional solo debut at the London Hippodrome singing the difficult aria Je Suis Titania from Mignon as part of a musical revue called Starlight Roof in 1947. She played the Hippodrome for one year. In 1948 she became the youngest solo performer ever to be seen in a Royal Command Variety Performance. Julie followed her parents into radio and television and reportedly made her television debut on the BBC program RadiOlympia Showtime in 1949. She garnered considerable fame throughout the United Kingdom for her work on the BBC radio comedy show Educating Archie (1950- 1952). In 1954 on the eve of her 19th birthday, Julie Andrews made her Broadway debut portraying Polly Browne in the already highly successful London musical The Boy Friend. To the critics, Andrews was the stand-out performer in the show. In November 1955 Andrews was signed to appear with Bing Crosby in what is regarded as the first made-for-television movie, High Tor.
In 1956 Julie Andrews appeared in the Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner musical My Fair Lady as Eliza Doolittle to Rex Harrison's Henry Higgins. Richard Rodgers was so impressed with her talent that concurrent with her run in My Fair Lady she was featured in the Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical, Cinderella (Ralph Nelson, 1957). Cinderella was broadcast live and attracted an estimated 107 million viewers. She married set designer Tony Walton in 1959 in Weybridge, Surrey. They had first met in 1948 when Andrews was appearing at the London Casino in the show Humpty Dumpty. The couple filed for a divorce in 1967. In 1960 Lerner and Loewe again cast her in a period musical as Queen Guinevere in Camelot, with Richard Burton. However, movie studio head Jack Warner decided Andrews lacked sufficient name recognition for her casting in the film version of My Fair Lady; Eliza was played by the established film actress Audrey Hepburn instead. As Warner later recalled, the decision was easy, "In my business, I have to know who brings people and their money to a movie theatre box office. Audrey Hepburn had never made a financial flop." Andrews played the title role in Disney's Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964), a lavish musical fantasy that combined live-action and animation. Walt Disney had seen a performance of Camelot and thought Andrews would be perfect for the role of the British nanny who is "practically perfect in every way!" Andrews initially declined because of pregnancy, but Disney politely insisted. Andrews and her husband headed back to the United Kingdom in 1962 for the birth of daughter Emma Katherine Walton. As a result of her performance in Mary Poppins, Andrews won the 1964 Academy Award for Best Actress and the 1965 Golden Globe Award. She and her Mary Poppins co-stars also won the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Album for Children. As a measure of ‘sweet revenge’, as Poppins songwriter Richard M. Sherman put it, Andrews closed her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes by saying, "And, finally, my thanks to a man who made a wonderful movie and who made all this possible in the first place, Mr. Jack Warner." Next, she appeared opposite James Garner in The Americanization of Emily (Arthur Hiller, 1964), which she has described as her favourite film.
Now, Julie Andrews was a real star, and it was her star power that helped make her third film, The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965), the highest-grossing movie of its day and one of the highest-grossing of all time. For her role as Maria von Trapp, she won her second Golden Globe Award in 1966 and was nominated for the 1965 Academy Award. After completing The Sound Of Music, Andrews appeared as a guest star on the NBC-TV variety series The Andy Williams Show, which gained her an Emmy nomination. She followed this with an Emmy Award-winning colour special, The Julie Andrews Show in 1965. By the end of 1967, Andrews had appeared in the television special Cinderella; the biggest Broadway musical of its time, My Fair Lady; the largest-selling long-playing album, the original cast recording of My Fair Lady; the biggest hit in Disney's history, Mary Poppins; the highest grossing movie of 1966, Hawaii (George Roy Hill, 1966); the biggest and second biggest hits in Universal's history, Thoroughly Modern Millie (George Roy Hill, 1967) and Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock, 1967); and the biggest hit in 20th Century Fox's history The Sound of Music. Then Andrews appeared in Star! (Robert Wise, 1968), a biopic of Gertrude Lawrence, and Darling Lili (Blake Edwards, 1970), co-starring Rock Hudson, but both bombed at the box office. The problem was that audiences identified her with singing, sugary-sweet nannies and governesses, and could not accept her in dramatic roles. She married Blake Edwards in 1969. They adopted two children from Vietnam: Amy in 1974 and Joanna in 1975. She continued working in television. In 1969 she shared the spotlight with singer Harry Belafonte for an NBC-TV special, An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte. In 1971 she appeared as a guest for the Grand Opening Special of Walt Disney World, and that same year she and Carol Burnett headlined a CBS special, Julie and Carol At Lincoln Center. In 1972–1973, Andrews starred in her own television variety series, The Julie Andrews Hour, on the ABC network. The show won seven Emmy Awards but was cancelled after one season. Between 1973 and 1975, Andrews continued her association with ABC by headlining five variety specials for the network. She guest-starred on The Muppet Show in 1977 and appeared again with the Muppets on a CBS-TV special, Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring, which aired in 1978. Then, she made a comeback in the cinema with an appearance in 10 (1979), directed by her husband Blake Edwards. He helped to keep her on the rise by directing her to subsequent roles that were entirely different from anything she had been in before. There was the film star Sally Miles who bared her breasts on-screen in S.O.B. (1981), and the woman (Victoria Grant) playing a man (Count Victor Grezhinski) playing a woman in Victor Victoria (1982). On IMDb Tommy Peter writes: “The sheer novelty of seeing Julie Andrews in these roles, not to mention her brilliant performances in both of them, undoubtedly helped make them successes”. Her roles in Victor/Victoria earned Andrews the 1983 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, as well as a nomination for the 1982 Academy Award for Best Actress, her third Oscar nomination. In 1987 Andrews starred in an ABC Christmas special, Julie Andrews: The Sound Of Christmas, which went on to win five Emmy Awards. Two years later she was reunited for the third time with Carol Burnett for a variety special which aired on ABC in 1989.
In 1991 Julie Andrews made her television dramatic debut in the ABC made-for-TV movie, Our Sons (John Erman, 1991), co-starring Ann-Margret. The following year she starred in her first television sitcom, Julie (1992), which co-starred James Farentino. In 1995 she starred in the stage musical version of Victor/Victoria, her first appearance in a Broadway show in 35 years. She was forced to quit the show towards the end of the Broadway run in 1997 when she developed vocal problems. She subsequently underwent surgery to remove non-cancerous nodules from her throat and was left unable to sing. In 1999 she was reunited with James Garner for the CBS made-for-TV movie, One Special Night (Roger Young, 1999). In the 2000 New Year's Honours, Andrews was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). She had a career revival when she appeared in The Princess Diaries (Garry Marshall, 2001), her first Disney film since Mary Poppins (1964). She starred as Queen Clarisse Marie Renaldi and reprised the role in a sequel, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (Garry Marshall, 2004). In The Princess Diaries 2, Andrews sang on film for the first time since having throat surgery. Andrews continued her association with Disney when she appeared as the nanny in two 2003 made-for-television movies based on the Eloise books, a series of children's books by Kay Thompson about a child who lives in the Plaza Hotel in New York City. The same year she made her debut as a theatre director, directing a revival of The Boy Friend, the musical in which she made her 1954 Broadway debut. In 2004 Andrews performed the voice of Queen Lillian in the animated blockbuster Shrek 2 (2004), reprising the role for its sequels, Shrek the Third (2007) and Shrek Forever After (2010). She narrated Enchanted (Kevin Lima, 2007), a live-action Disney musical comedy that both poked fun and paid homage to classic Disney films such as Mary Poppins. In 2007 Andrews was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Screen Actors Guild's awards and stated that her goals included continuing to direct for the stage and possibly to produce her own Broadway musical. She published Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (2008), which she characterised as "part one" of her autobiography. Home chronicles her early years in UK's music hall circuit and ends in 1962 with her winning the role of Mary Poppins. For a Walt Disney video release, she again portrayed Mary Poppins and narrated the story of The Cat That Looked at a King in 2004. In 2010, Andrews made her London come-back after a 21-year absence (her last performance there was a Christmas concert at the Royal Festival Hall in 1989). Julie Andrews has long had something of a dual image, being both a family-friendly star and an icon for gays and lesbians. Andrews herself has acknowledged her strange status, commenting that "I'm that odd mixture of, on the one hand, being a gay icon and, on the other, having grandmas and parents grateful I'm around to be a babysitter for their kids."
Sources: Tommy Peter (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Spanish postcard by Ediciones Tarje Fher/Ediciones Mandolina, 1964. Photo: Walt Disney Productions. Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins (1964).
English film and stage actress, singer, and author Julie Andrews (1935) was a former child actress and singer who rose to prominence starring in such stage musicals as My Fair Lady and Camelot. She is best known for her roles in the films Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965). Her voice spanned four octaves until it was damaged by a throat operation in 1997. In the 2000’s she had a major revival of her film career in family films such as The Princess Diaries (2001) and the Shrek animated films (2004–2010).
Julie Andrews was born Julia Elizabeth Wells in Walton-on-Thames, England, in 1935. Her mother, music hall performer Barbara Wells (née Morris), was married to Edward C. ‘Ted’ Wells, a teacher of metal and woodworking, but Andrews was conceived as a result of an affair her mother had with a family friend. With the outbreak of World War II, Barbara and Ted Wells went their separate ways. Ted Wells assisted with evacuating children to Surrey during the Blitz, while Barbara joined Ted Andrews in entertaining the troops through the good offices of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). Barbara and Ted Wells were soon divorced. Barbara remarried to Ted Andrews in 1939. Julie had lessons at the Cone-Ripman School, an independent arts educational school in London, then with the famous concert soprano and voice instructor Lilian Stiles-Allen. She continued her academic education at the Woodbrook School, a local state school in Beckenham. Julie performed spontaneously and unbilled on stage with her parents for about two years beginning in 1945. She got her big break when her stepfather introduced her to Val Parnell, whose Moss Empires controlled prominent venues in London. Andrews made her professional solo debut at the London Hippodrome singing the difficult aria Je Suis Titania from Mignon as part of a musical revue called Starlight Roof in 1947. She played the Hippodrome for one year. In 1948 she became the youngest solo performer ever to be seen in a Royal Command Variety Performance. Julie followed her parents into radio and television and reportedly made her television debut on the BBC program RadiOlympia Showtime in 1949. She garnered considerable fame throughout the United Kingdom for her work on the BBC radio comedy show Educating Archie (1950- 1952). In 1954 on the eve of her 19th birthday, Julie Andrews made her Broadway debut portraying Polly Browne in the already highly successful London musical The Boy Friend. To the critics, Andrews was the stand-out performer in the show. In November 1955 Andrews was signed to appear with Bing Crosby in what is regarded as the first made-for-television movie, High Tor.
In 1956 Julie Andrews appeared in the Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner musical My Fair Lady as Eliza Doolittle to Rex Harrison's Henry Higgins. Richard Rodgers was so impressed with her talent that concurrent with her run in My Fair Lady she was featured in the Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical, Cinderella (1957, Ralph Nelson). Cinderella was broadcast live and attracted an estimated 107 million viewers. She married set designer Tony Walton in 1959 in Weybridge, Surrey. They had first met in 1948 when Andrews was appearing at the London Casino in the show Humpty Dumpty. The couple filed for a divorce in 1967. In 1960 Lerner and Loewe again cast her in a period musical as Queen Guinevere in Camelot, with Richard Burton. However, movie studio head Jack Warner decided Andrews lacked sufficient name recognition for her casting in the film version of My Fair Lady; Eliza was played by the established film actress Audrey Hepburn instead. As Warner later recalled, the decision was easy, "In my business, I have to know who brings people and their money to a movie theatre box office. Audrey Hepburn had never made a financial flop." Andrews played the title role in Disney's Mary Poppins (1964, Robert Stevenson), a lavish musical fantasy that combined live-action and animation. Walt Disney had seen a performance of Camelot and thought Andrews would be perfect for the role of the British nanny who is "practically perfect in every way!" Andrews initially declined because of pregnancy, but Disney politely insisted. Andrews and her husband headed back to the United Kingdom in 1962 for the birth of daughter Emma Katherine Walton. As a result of her performance in Mary Poppins, Andrews won the 1964 Academy Award for Best Actress and the 1965 Golden Globe Award. She and her Mary Poppins co-stars also won the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Album for Children. As a measure of ‘sweet revenge’, as Poppins songwriter Richard M. Sherman put it, Andrews closed her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes by saying, "And, finally, my thanks to a man who made a wonderful movie and who made all this possible in the first place, Mr. Jack Warner." Next she appeared opposite James Garner in The Americanization of Emily (1964, Arthur Hiller), which she has described as her favourite film.
Now, Julie Andrews was a real star, and it was her star power that helped make her third film, The Sound of Music (1965, Robert Wise), the highest-grossing movie of its day and one of the highest-grossing of all time. For her role as Maria von Trapp, she won her second Golden Globe Award in 1966 and was nominated for the 1965 Academy Award. After completing The Sound Of Music, Andrews appeared as a guest star on the NBC-TV variety series The Andy Williams Show, which gained her an Emmy nomination. She followed this with an Emmy Award-winning color special, The Julie Andrews Show in 1965. By the end of 1967, Andrews had appeared in the television special Cinderella; the biggest Broadway musical of its time, My Fair Lady; the largest-selling long-playing album, the original cast recording of My Fair Lady; the biggest hit in Disney's history, Mary Poppins; the highest grossing movie of 1966, Hawaii (1966, George Roy Hill); the biggest and second biggest hits in Universal's history, Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967, George Roy Hill) and Torn Curtain (1967, Alfred Hitchcock); and the biggest hit in 20th Century Fox's history The Sound of Music. Then Andrews, appeared in Star! (1968, Robert Wise), a biopic of Gertrude Lawrence, and Darling Lili (1970, Blake Edwards), co-starring Rock Hudson, but both bombed at the box office. The problem was that audiences identified her with singing, sugary-sweet nannies and governesses, and could not accept her in dramatic roles. She married Blake Edwards in 1969. They adopted two children from Vietnam: Amy in 1974 and Joanna in 1975. She continued working in television. In 1969 she shared the spotlight with singer Harry Belafonte for an NBC-TV special, An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte. In 1971 she appeared as a guest for the Grand Opening Special of Walt Disney World, and that same year she and Carol Burnett headlined a CBS special, Julie and Carol At Lincoln Center. In 1972–73, Andrews starred in her own television variety series, The Julie Andrews Hour, on the ABC network. The show won seven Emmy Awards, but was cancelled after one season. Between 1973 and 1975, Andrews continued her association with ABC by headlining five variety specials for the network. She guest-starred on The Muppet Show in 1977 and appeared again with the Muppets on a CBS-TV special, Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring, which aired in 1978. Then, she made a in the cinema with an appearance in 10 (1979), directed by husband Blake Edwards. He helped to keep her on the rise by directing her in subsequent roles that were entirely different from anything she had been seen in before. There was the film star Sally Miles who bared her breasts on-screen in S.O.B. (1981), the woman (Victoria Grant) playing a man (Count Victor Grezhinski) playing a woman in Victor Victoria (1982). On IMDb Tommy Peter writes: “the sheer novelty of seeing Julie Andrews in these roles, not to mention her brilliant performances in both of them, undoubtedly helped make them successes”. Her roles in Victor/Victoria earned Andrews the 1983 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, as well as a nomination for the 1982 Academy Award for Best Actress, her third Oscar nomination. In 1987 Andrews starred in an ABC Christmas special, Julie Andrews: The Sound Of Christmas, which went on to win five Emmy Awards. Two years later she was reunited for the third time with Carol Burnett for a variety special which aired on ABC in 1989.
In 1991 Julie Andrews made her television dramatic debut in the ABC made-for-TV movie, Our Sons (1991, John Erman), co-starring Ann-Margret. The following year she starred in her first television sitcom, Julie (1992), which co-starred James Farentino. In 1995 she starred in the stage musical version of Victor/Victoria, her first appearance in a Broadway show in 35 years. She was forced to quit the show towards the end of the Broadway run in 1997 when she developed vocal problems. She subsequently underwent surgery to remove non-cancerous nodules from her throat and was left unable to sing. In 1999 she was reunited with James Garner for the CBS made-for-TV movie, One Special Night (1999, Roger Young). In the 2000 New Year's Honours, Andrews was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). She had a career revival when she appeared in The Princess Diaries (2001, Garry Marshall), her first Disney film since Mary Poppins (1964). She starred as Queen Clarisse Marie Renaldi and reprised the role in a sequel, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004, Garry Marshall). In The Princess Diaries 2, Andrews sang on film for the first time since having throat surgery. Andrews continued her association with Disney when she appeared as the nanny in two 2003 made-for-television movies based on the Eloise books, a series of children's books by Kay Thompson about a child who lives in the Plaza Hotel in New York City. The same year she made her debut as a theatre director, directing a revival of The Boy Friend, the musical in which she made her 1954 Broadway debut. In 2004 Andrews performed the voice of Queen Lillian in the animated blockbuster Shrek 2 (2004), reprising the role for its sequels, Shrek the Third (2007) and Shrek Forever After (2010). She narrated Enchanted (2007, Kevin Lima), a live-action Disney musical comedy that both poked fun and paid homage to classic Disney films such as Mary Poppins. In 2007 Andrews was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Screen Actors Guild's awards and stated that her goals included continuing to direct for the stage and possibly to produce her own Broadway musical. She published Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (2008), which she characterised as "part one" of her autobiography. Home chronicles her early years in UK's music hall circuit and ends in 1962 with her winning the role of Mary Poppins. For a Walt Disney video release she again portrayed Mary Poppins and narrated the story of The Cat That Looked at a King in 2004. In 2010, Andrews made her London come-back after a 21 year absence (her last performance there was a Christmas concert at the Royal Festival Hall in 1989). Julie Andrews has long had something of a dual image, being both a family-friendly star and an icon for gays and lesbians. Andrews herself has acknowledged her strange status, commenting that "I'm that odd mixture of, on the one hand, being a gay icon and, on the other, having grandmas and parents grateful I'm around to be a babysitter for their kids."
Sources: Tommy Peter (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
One of the highlights from our concert tonight. It was great to see how well Dick Van Dyke looked performing a song from the Music Man...a Warner Bros. song. He's a classic that's for sure. You can just tell how much he loves performing. This icon is 90 years young. Michael Feinstein, singer and conductor is behind Dick Van Dyke. #paspops
French postcard. Photo: Walt Disney Productions. Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964).
English film and stage actress, singer, and author Julie Andrews (1935) was a former child actress and singer who rose to prominence starring in such stage musicals as My Fair Lady and Camelot. She is best known for her roles in the films Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965). Her voice spanned four octaves until it was damaged by a throat operation in 1997. In the 2000’s she had a major revival of her film career in family films such as The Princess Diaries (2001) and the Shrek animated films (2004–2010).
Julie Andrews was born Julia Elizabeth Wells in Walton-on-Thames, England, in 1935. Her mother, music hall performer Barbara Wells (née Morris), was married to Edward C. ‘Ted’ Wells, a teacher of metal and woodworking, but Andrews was conceived as a result of an affair her mother had with a family friend. With the outbreak of World War II, Barbara and Ted Wells went their separate ways. Ted Wells assisted with evacuating children to Surrey during the Blitz, while Barbara joined Ted Andrews in entertaining the troops through the good offices of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). Barbara and Ted Wells were soon divorced. Barbara remarried to Ted Andrews in 1939. Julie had lessons at the Cone-Ripman School, an independent arts educational school in London, then with the famous concert soprano and voice instructor Lilian Stiles-Allen. She continued her academic education at the Woodbrook School, a local state school in Beckenham. Julie performed spontaneously and unbilled on stage with her parents for about two years beginning in 1945. She got her big break when her stepfather introduced her to Val Parnell, whose Moss Empires controlled prominent venues in London. Andrews made her professional solo debut at the London Hippodrome singing the difficult aria Je Suis Titania from Mignon as part of a musical revue called Starlight Roof in 1947. She played the Hippodrome for one year. In 1948 she became the youngest solo performer ever to be seen in a Royal Command Variety Performance. Julie followed her parents into radio and television and reportedly made her television debut on the BBC program RadiOlympia Showtime in 1949. She garnered considerable fame throughout the United Kingdom for her work on the BBC radio comedy show Educating Archie (1950- 1952). In 1954 on the eve of her 19th birthday, Julie Andrews made her Broadway debut portraying Polly Browne in the already highly successful London musical The Boy Friend. To the critics, Andrews was the stand-out performer in the show. In November 1955 Andrews was signed to appear with Bing Crosby in what is regarded as the first made-for-television movie, High Tor.
In 1956 Julie Andrews appeared in the Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner musical My Fair Lady as Eliza Doolittle to Rex Harrison's Henry Higgins. Richard Rodgers was so impressed with her talent that concurrent with her run in My Fair Lady she was featured in the Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical, Cinderella (Ralph Nelson, 1957). Cinderella was broadcast live and attracted an estimated 107 million viewers. She married set designer Tony Walton in 1959 in Weybridge, Surrey. They had first met in 1948 when Andrews was appearing at the London Casino in the show Humpty Dumpty. The couple filed for a divorce in 1967. In 1960 Lerner and Loewe again cast her in a period musical as Queen Guinevere in Camelot, with Richard Burton. However movie studio head Jack Warner decided Andrews lacked sufficient name recognition for her casting in the film version of My Fair Lady; Eliza was played by the established film actress Audrey Hepburn instead. As Warner later recalled, the decision was easy, "In my business I have to know who brings people and their money to a movie theatre box office. Audrey Hepburn had never made a financial flop." Andrews played the title role in Disney's Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964), a lavish musical fantasy that combined live-action and animation. Walt Disney had seen a performance of Camelot and thought Andrews would be perfect for the role of the British nanny who is "practically perfect in every way!" Andrews initially declined because of pregnancy, but Disney politely insisted. Andrews and her husband headed back to the United Kingdom in 1962 for the birth of daughter Emma Katherine Walton. As a result of her performance in Mary Poppins, Andrews won the 1964 Academy Award for Best Actress and the 1965 Golden Globe Award. She and her Mary Poppins co-stars also won the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Album for Children. As a measure of ‘sweet revenge’, as Poppins songwriter Richard M. Sherman put it, Andrews closed her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes by saying, "And, finally, my thanks to a man who made a wonderful movie and who made all this possible in the first place, Mr. Jack Warner." Next she appeared opposite James Garner in The Americanization of Emily (Arthur Hiller, 1964), which she has described as her favourite film.
Now, Julie Andrews was a real star, and it was her star power that helped make her third film, The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965), the highest-grossing movie of its day and one of the highest-grossing of all time. For her role as Maria von Trapp, she won her second Golden Globe Award in 1966 and was nominated for the 1965 Academy Award. After completing The Sound Of Music, Andrews appeared as a guest star on the NBC-TV variety series The Andy Williams Show, which gained her an Emmy nomination. She followed this with an Emmy Award-winning color special, The Julie Andrews Show in 1965. By the end of 1967, Andrews had appeared in the television special Cinderella; the biggest Broadway musical of its time, My Fair Lady; the largest-selling long-playing album, the original cast recording of My Fair Lady; the biggest hit in Disney's history, Mary Poppins; the highest grossing movie of 1966, Hawaii (George Roy Hill, 1966); the biggest and second biggest hits in Universal's history, Thoroughly Modern Millie (George Roy Hill, 1967) and Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock, 1967); and the biggest hit in 20th Century Fox's history The Sound of Music. Then Andrews, appeared in Star! (Robert Wise, 1968), a biopic of Gertrude Lawrence, and Darling Lili (Blake Edwards, 1970), co-starring Rock Hudson, but both bombed at the box office. The problem was that audiences identified her with singing, sugary-sweet nannies and governesses, and could not accept her in dramatic roles. She married Blake Edwards in 1969. They adopted two children from Vietnam: Amy in 1974 and Joanna in 1975. She continued working in television. In 1969 she shared the spotlight with singer Harry Belafonte for an NBC-TV special, An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte. In 1971 she appeared as a guest for the Grand Opening Special of Walt Disney World, and that same year she and Carol Burnett headlined a CBS special, Julie and Carol At Lincoln Center. In 1972–1973, Andrews starred in her own television variety series, The Julie Andrews Hour, on the ABC network. The show won seven Emmy Awards, but was cancelled after one season. Between 1973 and 1975, Andrews continued her association with ABC by headlining five variety specials for the network. She guest-starred on The Muppet Show in 1977 and appeared again with the Muppets on a CBS-TV special, Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring, which aired in 1978. Then, she made a in the cinema with an appearance in 10 (1979), directed by husband Blake Edwards. He helped to keep her on the rise by directing her in subsequent roles that were entirely different from anything she had been seen in before. There was the film star Sally Miles who bared her breasts on-screen in S.O.B. (1981), the woman (Victoria Grant) playing a man (Count Victor Grezhinski) playing a woman in Victor Victoria (1982). On IMDb Tommy Peter writes: “the sheer novelty of seeing Julie Andrews in these roles, not to mention her brilliant performances in both of them, undoubtedly helped make them successes”. Her roles in Victor/Victoria earned Andrews the 1983 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, as well as a nomination for the 1982 Academy Award for Best Actress, her third Oscar nomination. In 1987 Andrews starred in an ABC Christmas special, Julie Andrews: The Sound Of Christmas, which went on to win five Emmy Awards. Two years later she was reunited for the third time with Carol Burnett for a variety special which aired on ABC in 1989.
In 1991 Julie Andrews made her television dramatic debut in the ABC made-for-TV movie, Our Sons (John Erman, 1991), co-starring Ann-Margret. The following year she starred in her first television sitcom, Julie (1992), which co-starred James Farentino. In 1995 she starred in the stage musical version of Victor/Victoria, her first appearance in a Broadway show in 35 years. She was forced to quit the show towards the end of the Broadway run in 1997 when she developed vocal problems. She subsequently underwent surgery to remove non-cancerous nodules from her throat and was left unable to sing. In 1999 she was reunited with James Garner for the CBS made-for-TV movie, One Special Night (Roger Young, 1999). In the 2000 New Year's Honours, Andrews was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). She had a career revival when she appeared in The Princess Diaries (Garry Marshall, 2001), her first Disney film since Mary Poppins (1964). She starred as Queen Clarisse Marie Renaldi and reprised the role in a sequel, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (Garry Marshall, 2004). In The Princess Diaries 2, Andrews sang on film for the first time since having throat surgery. Andrews continued her association with Disney when she appeared as the nanny in two 2003 made-for-television movies based on the Eloise books, a series of children's books by Kay Thompson about a child who lives in the Plaza Hotel in New York City. The same year she made her debut as a theatre director, directing a revival of The Boy Friend, the musical in which she made her 1954 Broadway debut. In 2004 Andrews performed the voice of Queen Lillian in the animated blockbuster Shrek 2 (2004), reprising the role for its sequels, Shrek the Third (2007) and Shrek Forever After (2010). She narrated Enchanted (Kevin Lima, 2007), a live-action Disney musical comedy that both poked fun and paid homage to classic Disney films such as Mary Poppins. In 2007 Andrews was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Screen Actors Guild's awards and stated that her goals included continuing to direct for the stage and possibly to produce her own Broadway musical. She published Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (2008), which she characterised as "part one" of her autobiography. Home chronicles her early years in UK's music hall circuit and ends in 1962 with her winning the role of Mary Poppins. For a Walt Disney video release she again portrayed Mary Poppins and narrated the story of The Cat That Looked at a King in 2004. In 2010, Andrews made her London come-back after a 21 year absence (her last performance there was a Christmas concert at the Royal Festival Hall in 1989). Julie Andrews has long had something of a dual image, being both a family-friendly star and an icon for gays and lesbians. Andrews herself has acknowledged her strange status, commenting that "I'm that odd mixture of, on the one hand, being a gay icon and, on the other, having grandmas and parents grateful I'm around to be a babysitter for their kids."
Sources: Tommy Peter (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
French postcard by Les Presses de Belleville, Paris, no. 104. Photo: Walt Disney Productions. Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964).
English film and stage actress, singer, and author Julie Andrews (1935) was a former child actress and singer who rose to prominence starring in such stage musicals as My Fair Lady and Camelot. She is best known for her roles in the films Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965). Her voice spanned four octaves until it was damaged by a throat operation in 1997. In the 2000’s she had a major revival of her film career in family films such as The Princess Diaries (2001) and the Shrek animated films (2004–2010).
Julie Andrews was born Julia Elizabeth Wells in Walton-on-Thames, England, in 1935. Her mother, music hall performer Barbara Wells (née Morris), was married to Edward C. ‘Ted’ Wells, a teacher of metal and woodworking, but Andrews was conceived as a result of an affair her mother had with a family friend. With the outbreak of World War II, Barbara and Ted Wells went their separate ways. Ted Wells assisted with evacuating children to Surrey during the Blitz, while Barbara joined Ted Andrews in entertaining the troops through the good offices of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). Barbara and Ted Wells were soon divorced. Barbara remarried to Ted Andrews in 1939. Julie had lessons at the Cone-Ripman School, an independent arts educational school in London, then with the famous concert soprano and voice instructor Lilian Stiles-Allen. She continued her academic education at the Woodbrook School, a local state school in Beckenham. Julie performed spontaneously and unbilled on stage with her parents for about two years beginning in 1945. She got her big break when her stepfather introduced her to Val Parnell, whose Moss Empires controlled prominent venues in London. Andrews made her professional solo debut at the London Hippodrome singing the difficult aria Je Suis Titania from Mignon as part of a musical revue called Starlight Roof in 1947. She played the Hippodrome for one year. In 1948 she became the youngest solo performer ever to be seen in a Royal Command Variety Performance. Julie followed her parents into radio and television and reportedly made her television debut on the BBC program RadiOlympia Showtime in 1949. She garnered considerable fame throughout the United Kingdom for her work on the BBC radio comedy show Educating Archie (1950- 1952). In 1954 on the eve of her 19th birthday, Julie Andrews made her Broadway debut portraying Polly Browne in the already highly successful London musical The Boy Friend. To the critics, Andrews was the stand-out performer in the show. In November 1955 Andrews was signed to appear with Bing Crosby in what is regarded as the first made-for-television movie, High Tor.
In 1956 Julie Andrews appeared in the Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner musical My Fair Lady as Eliza Doolittle to Rex Harrison's Henry Higgins. Richard Rodgers was so impressed with her talent that concurrent with her run in My Fair Lady she was featured in the Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical, Cinderella (Ralph Nelson, 1957). Cinderella was broadcast live and attracted an estimated 107 million viewers. She married set designer Tony Walton in 1959 in Weybridge, Surrey. They had first met in 1948 when Andrews was appearing at the London Casino in the show Humpty Dumpty. The couple filed for a divorce in 1967. In 1960 Lerner and Loewe again cast her in a period musical as Queen Guinevere in Camelot, with Richard Burton. However movie studio head Jack Warner decided Andrews lacked sufficient name recognition for her casting in the film version of My Fair Lady; Eliza was played by the established film actress Audrey Hepburn instead. As Warner later recalled, the decision was easy, "In my business I have to know who brings people and their money to a movie theatre box office. Audrey Hepburn had never made a financial flop." Andrews played the title role in Disney's Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964), a lavish musical fantasy that combined live-action and animation. Walt Disney had seen a performance of Camelot and thought Andrews would be perfect for the role of the British nanny who is "practically perfect in every way!" Andrews initially declined because of pregnancy, but Disney politely insisted. Andrews and her husband headed back to the United Kingdom in 1962 for the birth of daughter Emma Katherine Walton. As a result of her performance in Mary Poppins, Andrews won the 1964 Academy Award for Best Actress and the 1965 Golden Globe Award. She and her Mary Poppins co-stars also won the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Album for Children. As a measure of ‘sweet revenge’, as Poppins songwriter Richard M. Sherman put it, Andrews closed her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes by saying, "And, finally, my thanks to a man who made a wonderful movie and who made all this possible in the first place, Mr. Jack Warner." Next she appeared opposite James Garner in The Americanization of Emily (Arthur Hiller, 1964), which she has described as her favourite film.
Now, Julie Andrews was a real star, and it was her star power that helped make her third film, The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965), the highest-grossing movie of its day and one of the highest-grossing of all time. For her role as Maria von Trapp, she won her second Golden Globe Award in 1966 and was nominated for the 1965 Academy Award. After completing The Sound Of Music, Andrews appeared as a guest star on the NBC-TV variety series The Andy Williams Show, which gained her an Emmy nomination. She followed this with an Emmy Award-winning color special, The Julie Andrews Show in 1965. By the end of 1967, Andrews had appeared in the television special Cinderella; the biggest Broadway musical of its time, My Fair Lady; the largest-selling long-playing album, the original cast recording of My Fair Lady; the biggest hit in Disney's history, Mary Poppins; the highest grossing movie of 1966, Hawaii (George Roy Hill, 1966); the biggest and second biggest hits in Universal's history, Thoroughly Modern Millie (George Roy Hill, 1967) and Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock, 1967); and the biggest hit in 20th Century Fox's history The Sound of Music. Then Andrews, appeared in Star! (Robert Wise, 1968), a biopic of Gertrude Lawrence, and Darling Lili (Blake Edwards, 1970), co-starring Rock Hudson, but both bombed at the box office. The problem was that audiences identified her with singing, sugary-sweet nannies and governesses, and could not accept her in dramatic roles. She married Blake Edwards in 1969. They adopted two children from Vietnam: Amy in 1974 and Joanna in 1975. She continued working in television. In 1969 she shared the spotlight with singer Harry Belafonte for an NBC-TV special, An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte. In 1971 she appeared as a guest for the Grand Opening Special of Walt Disney World, and that same year she and Carol Burnett headlined a CBS special, Julie and Carol At Lincoln Center. In 1972–1973, Andrews starred in her own television variety series, The Julie Andrews Hour, on the ABC network. The show won seven Emmy Awards, but was cancelled after one season. Between 1973 and 1975, Andrews continued her association with ABC by headlining five variety specials for the network. She guest-starred on The Muppet Show in 1977 and appeared again with the Muppets on a CBS-TV special, Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring, which aired in 1978. Then, she made a in the cinema with an appearance in 10 (1979), directed by husband Blake Edwards. He helped to keep her on the rise by directing her in subsequent roles that were entirely different from anything she had been seen in before. There was the film star Sally Miles who bared her breasts on-screen in S.O.B. (1981), the woman (Victoria Grant) playing a man (Count Victor Grezhinski) playing a woman in Victor Victoria (1982). On IMDb Tommy Peter writes: “the sheer novelty of seeing Julie Andrews in these roles, not to mention her brilliant performances in both of them, undoubtedly helped make them successes”. Her roles in Victor/Victoria earned Andrews the 1983 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, as well as a nomination for the 1982 Academy Award for Best Actress, her third Oscar nomination. In 1987 Andrews starred in an ABC Christmas special, Julie Andrews: The Sound Of Christmas, which went on to win five Emmy Awards. Two years later she was reunited for the third time with Carol Burnett for a variety special which aired on ABC in 1989.
In 1991 Julie Andrews made her television dramatic debut in the ABC made-for-TV movie, Our Sons (John Erman, 1991), co-starring Ann-Margret. The following year she starred in her first television sitcom, Julie (1992), which co-starred James Farentino. In 1995 she starred in the stage musical version of Victor/Victoria, her first appearance in a Broadway show in 35 years. She was forced to quit the show towards the end of the Broadway run in 1997 when she developed vocal problems. She subsequently underwent surgery to remove non-cancerous nodules from her throat and was left unable to sing. In 1999 she was reunited with James Garner for the CBS made-for-TV movie, One Special Night (Roger Young, 1999). In the 2000 New Year's Honours, Andrews was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). She had a career revival when she appeared in The Princess Diaries (Garry Marshall, 2001), her first Disney film since Mary Poppins (1964). She starred as Queen Clarisse Marie Renaldi and reprised the role in a sequel, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (Garry Marshall, 2004). In The Princess Diaries 2, Andrews sang on film for the first time since having throat surgery. Andrews continued her association with Disney when she appeared as the nanny in two 2003 made-for-television movies based on the Eloise books, a series of children's books by Kay Thompson about a child who lives in the Plaza Hotel in New York City. The same year she made her debut as a theatre director, directing a revival of The Boy Friend, the musical in which she made her 1954 Broadway debut. In 2004 Andrews performed the voice of Queen Lillian in the animated blockbuster Shrek 2 (2004), reprising the role for its sequels, Shrek the Third (2007) and Shrek Forever After (2010). She narrated Enchanted (Kevin Lima, 2007), a live-action Disney musical comedy that both poked fun and paid homage to classic Disney films such as Mary Poppins. In 2007 Andrews was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Screen Actors Guild's awards and stated that her goals included continuing to direct for the stage and possibly to produce her own Broadway musical. She published Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (2008), which she characterised as "part one" of her autobiography. Home chronicles her early years in UK's music hall circuit and ends in 1962 with her winning the role of Mary Poppins. For a Walt Disney video release she again portrayed Mary Poppins and narrated the story of The Cat That Looked at a King in 2004. In 2010, Andrews made her London come-back after a 21 year absence (her last performance there was a Christmas concert at the Royal Festival Hall in 1989). Julie Andrews has long had something of a dual image, being both a family-friendly star and an icon for gays and lesbians. Andrews herself has acknowledged her strange status, commenting that "I'm that odd mixture of, on the one hand, being a gay icon and, on the other, having grandmas and parents grateful I'm around to be a babysitter for their kids."
Sources: Tommy Peter (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
French postcard by Les Presses de Belleville, Paris, no. 108. Photo: Walt Disney Productions. Dick van Dyke in Mary Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964).
American actor Dick Van Dyke (1925) is best remembered for his roles in a series of successful TV series and for his parts in family films of the 1960s, including Bert the chimney-sweep in the classic Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964).
Dick Van Dyke was born Richard Wayne Van Dyke in West Plains, US, in 1925. His parents were Hazel Victoria (McCord), a stenographer, and Loren Wayne Van Dyke, a salesman. His younger brother is entertainer Jerry Van Dyke. Although he'd had small roles beforehand, Van Dyke was launched to stardom in the musical Bye-Bye Birdie (1960), in which he sang his best-known song Put on a Happy Face. For his role he won a Tony Award, and, he also played the role in the film adaptation Bye Bye Birdie (George Sidney, 1963) with Ann Margret. It was followed by a supporting part in the romantic comedy What a Way to Go! (J. Lee Thompson, 1964) with Shirley MacLaine. Then he played Bert the chimney-sweep in the classic Disney family comedy Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964) with Julie Andrews. The film combines songs, colour and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Since then, he has starred in a number of films, including Fitzwilly (Delbert Mann, 1967) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Ken Hughes, 1968) with Sally Ann Howes.
Dick Van Dyke also appeared in successful television series which won him no less than four Emmys and three made-for-CBS movies. In 1961, he started to play Rob Petrie in the situation comedy The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966) with Mary Tyler Moore. The show, created by Carl Reiner, told the misadventures of a TV writer both at work and at home. It became the most popular show on American television. By the late 1980s, it seemed that Van Dyke's career was over. However, his acclaimed performance as the District Attorney in Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) led to the TV-movie and the series Diagnosis Murder (1992-2001). His first TV-series in 27 years proved to be a big television comeback for the 67-year-old star. He was married to Margie Willett from 1948 till 1984. They married on the radio show Bride and Groom because the show paid for the wedding rings, a honeymoon and household appliances. After their wedding, the Van Dykes were so poor that they had to live in their car for a while. They had four children: Barry Van Dyke; Carrie Beth van Dyke; Christian Van Dyke and Stacy Van Dyke. He has several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. His family members often appeared with him on the TV-series Diagnosis Murder (1993-1996), in which he played Dr. Mark Sloan. Van Dyke lived with Michelle Triola from 1976 until her death in 2009. Since 2012 he is married to makeup artist Arlene Silver.
Sources: IMDb.
French postcard by Les Presses de Belville, Paris, no. 103. Photo: Walt Disney Productions. Publicity still for Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964).
American actor Dick Van Dyke (1925) is best remembered for his roles in a series of successful TV series and for his parts in family films of the 1960s, including Bert the chimney-sweep in the classic Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964).
Dick Van Dyke was born Richard Wayne Van Dyke in West Plains, US, in 1925. His parents were Hazel Victoria (McCord), a stenographer, and Loren Wayne Van Dyke, a salesman. His younger brother is entertainer Jerry Van Dyke. Although he'd had small roles beforehand, Van Dyke was launched to stardom in the musical Bye-Bye Birdie (1960), in which he sang his best-known song Put on a Happy Face. For his role he won a Tony Award, and, he also played the role in the film adaptation Bye Bye Birdie (George Sidney, 1963) with Ann Margret. It was followed by a supporting part in the romantic comedy What a Way to Go! (J. Lee Thompson, 1964) with Shirley MacLaine. Then he played Bert the chimney-sweep in the classic Disney family comedy Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964) with Julie Andrews. The film combines songs, colour and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Since then, he has starred in a number of films, including Fitzwilly (Delbert Mann, 1967) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Ken Hughes, 1968) with Sally Ann Howes.
Dick Van Dyke also appeared in successful television series which won him no less than four Emmys and three made-for-CBS movies. In 1961, he started to play Rob Petrie in the situation comedy The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966) with Mary Tyler Moore. The show, created by Carl Reiner, told the misadventures of a TV writer both at work and at home. It became the most popular show on American television. By the late 1980s, it seemed that Van Dyke's career was over. However, his acclaimed performance as the District Attorney in Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) led to the TV-movie and the series Diagnosis Murder (1992-2001). His first TV-series in 27 years proved to be a big television comeback for the 67-year-old star. He was married to Margie Willett from 1948 till 1984. They married on the radio show Bride and Groom because the show paid for the wedding rings, a honeymoon and household appliances. After their wedding, the Van Dykes were so poor that they had to live in their car for a while. They had four children: Barry Van Dyke; Carrie Beth van Dyke; Christian Van Dyke and Stacy Van Dyke. He has several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. His family members often appeared with him on the TV-series Diagnosis Murder (1993-1996), in which he played Dr Mark Sloan. Van Dyke lived with Michelle Triola from 1976 until her death in 2009. Since 2012 he is married to makeup artist Arlene Silver.
Sources: IMDb.
Dutch postcard by Gebr. Spanjersberg N.V., Rotterdam (Sparo), no. 20. Photo: publicity still for the TV series The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966).
American sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966) presented the misadventures of a TV writer both at work and at home. The legendary TV show was created by Carl Reiner and starred Dick Van Dyke as Rob Petrie and Mary Tyler Moore as his wife Laura. With their son Richie (Larry Mathews), they live in suburban New Rochelle. In Manhattan, Rob writes with Buddy (Morey Amsterdam) and Sally (Rose Marie) for the Alan Brady TV show under the thumb of Brady's brother-in-law Mel (Richard Deacon). The star of the fictitious TV show, Alan Brady, was only a minor character in the real series and was played by Carl Reiner. Many of the show's plots were inspired by Reiner's experiences as a writer for Your Show of Shows, which starred Sid Caesar, but though he based the character of Rob Petrie on himself, Rob's egocentric boss Alan Brady is less Caesar than a combination of the more abrasive Milton Berle and Jackie Gleason, according to Reiner himself. CBS had intended to cancel the show after its first season, but Procter & Gamble threatened to pull its advertising from the network's lucrative daytime line-up and the show was renewed, keeping its Wednesday night time slot. After going into summer reruns, the show jumped into the top 10 by the third episode of its second season. It may have been helped by coming directly after the new #1 hit, The Beverly Hillbillies. The Dick Van Dyke Show would go on to win 15 Emmy Awards.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
For now, this was the final postcard in our series of vintage TV heroes.
French postcard by Les Presses de Belleville, no. 101. Photo: Walt Disney Productions. Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964).
English film and stage actress, singer, and author Julie Andrews (1935) was a former child actress and singer who rose to prominence starring in such stage musicals as My Fair Lady and Camelot. She is best known for her roles in the films Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965). Her voice spanned four octaves until it was damaged by a throat operation in 1997. In the 2000s she had a major revival of her film career in family films such as The Princess Diaries (2001) and the Shrek animated films (2004–2010).
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Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang was a 1968 film musical about a flying car (from which the film is named).
The story was originally a children's book authored by Ian Fleming of 'James Bond' fame.
The movie stared Dick van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes (in a role originally offered to Julie Andrews), along with a recreation of a WW I era, aero-engined flying car.
The movie was firmly aimed at children, and featured music from the Sherman Bothers. As an adult viewer the film's plot shortcomings are somewhat obvious, however this did not stop the film being a success.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang the car was a somewhat generic interpretation of a WW I automobile, but for the fact that it featured retractable 'wings' at the sides, front and rear. The cars featured in the movie did not sport Aero-engines (as was popular at the time), but a more prosaic Ford V6 from a contemporary vehicle to the movie production.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang_(car)
This Lego miniland-scale model of Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 79th build challenge, - 'LUGNuts goes Wingnuts' featuring automotive vehicles with some relationship to flying vehicles, be it a name or engineering type connection.
Pavement Artist (Chim Chim Cher-Ee) ~ Mary Poppins
"Chim chiminey, chim chiminey. Chim chim cher-oo.
I does what I likes and I likes what I do, Today I'm a screever and as you can see.
A screever's an artist of highest degree, And it's all me own work from me own memory.
Chim chiminey, chim chiminey. Chim chim cher-oo.
I draws what I likes and I likes what I drew, No remuneration do I ask of you.
But me cap would be glad of a copper or two.
Chim chiminey, chim chiminey. Chim chim cher-oo.
La dum, de da dum, Da da da da dum, Mmm hmm."
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Dutch postcard by Gebr. Spanjersberg N.V., Rotterdam. Photo: Mary Tyler Moore with Dick van Dyke in The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966).
Yesterday, 25 January 2017, American actress Mary Tyler Moore (1936-2017) passed away. She was known for her roles in the television sitcoms The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966), in which she played Laura Petrie, a former dancer turned Westchester homemaker, wife and mother, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a thirtyish single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis. Her best known films include Thoroughly Modern Millie (George Roy Hill, 1967) with Julie Andrews, and Ordinary People (Robert Redford, 1980) opposite Donald Sutherland, in which she played a role that was very different from the television characters she had portrayed, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Mary Tyler Moore was 80.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang was a 1968 film musical about a flying car (from which the film is named).
The story was originally a children's book authored by Ian Fleming of 'James Bond' fame.
The movie stared Dick van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes (in a role originally offered to Julie Andrews), along with a recreation of a WW I era, aero-engined flying car.
The movie was firmly aimed at children, and featured music from the Sherman Bothers. As an adult viewer the film's plot shortcomings are somewhat obvious, however this did not stop the film being a success.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang the car was a somewhat generic interpretation of a WW I automobile, but for the fact that it featured retractable 'wings' at the sides, front and rear. The cars featured in the movie did not sport Aero-engines (as was popular at the time), but a more prosaic Ford V6 from a contemporary vehicle to the movie production.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang_(car)
This Lego miniland-scale model of Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 79th build challenge, - 'LUGNuts goes Wingnuts' featuring automotive vehicles with some relationship to flying vehicles, be it a name or engineering type connection.
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang was a 1968 film musical about a flying car (from which the film is named).
The story was originally a children's book authored by Ian Fleming of 'James Bond' fame.
The movie stared Dick van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes (in a role originally offered to Julie Andrews), along with a recreation of a WW I era, aero-engined flying car.
The movie was firmly aimed at children, and featured music from the Sherman Bothers. As an adult viewer the film's plot shortcomings are somewhat obvious, however this did not stop the film being a success.
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang the car was a somewhat generic interpretation of a WW I automobile, but for the fact that it featured retractable 'wings' at the sides, front and rear. The cars featured in the movie did not sport Aero-engines (as was popular at the time), but a more prosaic Ford V6 from a contemporary vehicle to the movie production.
This Lego miniland-scale model of Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 79th build challenge, - 'LUGNuts goes Wingnuts' featuring automotive vehicles with some relationship to flying vehicles, be it a name or engineering type connection.
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang was a 1968 film musical about a flying car (from which the film is named).
The story was originally a children's book authored by Ian Fleming of 'James Bond' fame.
The movie stared Dick van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes (in a role originally offered to Julie Andrews), along with a recreation of a WW I era, aero-engined flying car.
The movie was firmly aimed at children, and featured music from the Sherman Bothers. As an adult viewer the film's plot shortcomings are somewhat obvious, however this did not stop the film being a success.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang the car was a somewhat generic interpretation of a WW I automobile, but for the fact that it featured retractable 'wings' at the sides, front and rear. The cars featured in the movie did not sport Aero-engines (as was popular at the time), but a more prosaic Ford V6 from a contemporary vehicle to the movie production.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang_(car)
This Lego miniland-scale model of Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 79th build challenge, - 'LUGNuts goes Wingnuts' featuring automotive vehicles with some relationship to flying vehicles, be it a name or engineering type connection.
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang was a 1968 film musical about a flying car (from which the film is named).
The story was originally a children's book authored by Ian Fleming of 'James Bond' fame.
The movie stared Dick van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes (in a role originally offered to Julie Andrews), along with a recreation of a WW I era, aero-engined flying car.
The movie was firmly aimed at children, and featured music from the Sherman Bothers. As an adult viewer the film's plot shortcomings are somewhat obvious, however this did not stop the film being a success.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang the car was a somewhat generic interpretation of a WW I automobile, but for the fact that it featured retractable 'wings' at the sides, front and rear. The cars featured in the movie did not sport Aero-engines (as was popular at the time), but a more prosaic Ford V6 from a contemporary vehicle to the movie production.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitty_Chitty_Bang_Bang_(car)
This Lego miniland-scale model of Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 79th build challenge, - 'LUGNuts goes Wingnuts' featuring automotive vehicles with some relationship to flying vehicles, be it a name or engineering type connection.
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang was a 1968 film musical about a flying car (from which the film is named).
The story was originally a children's book authored by Ian Fleming of 'James Bond' fame.
The movie stared Dick van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes (in a role originally offered to Julie Andrews), along with a recreation of a WW I era, aero-engined flying car.
The movie was firmly aimed at children, and featured music from the Sherman Bothers. As an adult viewer the film's plot shortcomings are somewhat obvious, however this did not stop the film being a success.
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang the car was a somewhat generic interpretation of a WW I automobile, but for the fact that it featured retractable 'wings' at the sides, front and rear. The cars featured in the movie did not sport Aero-engines (as was popular at the time), but a more prosaic Ford V6 from a contemporary vehicle to the movie production.
This Lego miniland-scale model of Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 79th build challenge, - 'LUGNuts goes Wingnuts' featuring automotive vehicles with some relationship to flying vehicles, be it a name or engineering type connection.
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I watched this movie on Netflix instant watch last night and absolutely love it.
Pages from the Minneapolis-St. Paul edition of TV Guide from October 15, 1969. "Divorce, American Style" (1967) with Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds is featured in an ad and a TV Guide Close Up, followed by KMSP Channel 9's "Eyewitness News" with Jim Steer.
Also on that night, the Kraft Music Hall 3rd Annual Country Music Association Awards hosted by Tennessee Ernie Ford on NBC, "Medical Center" (this episode dealt with "therapeutic abortion"), and the original "Hawaii Five-O" (featuring guest victim Elaine Joyce) on CBS, among other things.
"C" indicated the show was in color.