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Julie Andrews, 90, makes rare video appearance for 'devastating' cause close to her heart.
Dame Julie Andrews makes rare appearance in video for a Parkinson's disease conference đŤś

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The Lusty Month of May
Itâs mad! Itâs gay! A libelous display! Those dreary vows that evâryone takes, Evâryone breaks. Evâryone makes divine mistakes The lusty month of May!
The Lusty Month Of May - Guenevere (Julie Andrews) and Chorus
Itâs mad! Itâs gay! A libelous display! Those dreary vows that everyone takes, everyone breaks. everyone makes divine mistakes the lusty month of May!
Because itâs the first day of the month of MAY!
âYour face with a lustre that puts gold to shame...â Publicity portraits of Julie Andrews as Guenevere in Camelot
These three portraits were taken as part of the publicity campaign for the 1962 television special The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe, filmed in December 1961 and broadcast in February 1962. Here Julie appears in the gold brocade gown designed by Tony Duquette, based on concept designs by Adrian, for the Grand Hall investiture scene closing Act I of Camelot. The scene was recreated in its entirety for the television programme by Julie, Richard Burton, Robert Goulet, and the Camelot ensemble. Photo credit: Alfred Productions, Lerner & Loewe Enterprises, 1962.
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Becoming Eliza: early character publicity for My Fair Lady, January 1956
By the time My Fair Lady reached Broadway in March 1956, its visual world appeared fully formed: Cecil Beatonâs costumes, Oliver Smithâs sets, and Julie Andrewsâs carefully calibrated transformation from Covent Garden flower girl to Ascot spectacle. The publicity portraits taken during rehearsals two months earlier tell a more provisional story â one of adjustment, exploration, and discovery â captured just weeks before the show encountered its first audiences.
Produced during January rehearsals in New York, these images formed part of the showâs early publicity campaign overseen by press agent Richard Maney (Maney 1957, pp. 219-220). Formally engaged by producer Herman Levin in late November and active from early January 1956, Maney would remain a constant presence throughout My Fair Ladyâs Broadway run (McHugh 2012, p. 42). From the outset his task was paradoxical: to circulate press images that projected confidence and coherence even as the productionâs visual identity was still being worked out.*
That tension â between fixity and experimentation â is visible across these character portraits. By this point, Beatonâs costumes were largely settled. Indeed, as profiled in an earlier post, Beaton had already staged a very early costume shoot with Andrews and Rex Harrison at Covent Garden in December 1955, before either star had even departed for New York. What remained fluid were the elements that would animate those costumes onstage: gesture, expression, lighting â and, most conspicuously, hair. Across the portraits, Andrewsâs Eliza appears in subtly different guises, with hair carrying much of the expressive work. In some images her hair is lighter, longer, and framed by pronounced side curls; in others the tone deepens, the silhouette tightens, and the look becomes more graphic. These variations register an ongoing negotiation about how Eliza should read visually â not only as a figure of transformation, but as a character legible at a glance. Levin himself suggested shifting Andrewsâs hair toward âan auburn shade,â remarking that her natural colour seemed ârather drabâ (quoted in McHugh 2012, p. 43). The creative team, meanwhile, continued to refine and âbrightenâ the tone, testing how hair, costume, and lighting registered together under stage conditions.**
The labour behind these refinements was substantial. Ernest Adler â signed in December to oversee âall hair stylings and coiffuresâ (McHugh 2012, p. 42) â assumed responsibility for one of the productionâs most intricate, if frequently overlooked, design elements. Hair functioned not as ornament but as structure, shaping Elizaâs visual progression from street seller to society spectacle and requiring meticulous rehearsal at every stage.
Presiding over a complex system of wigs, falls, and hairpieces that demanded precision, speed, and constant adjustment, Adler regarded his work on My Fair Lady as his âgreatestâ achievement. He later recalled that the production spent thousands of dollars on hair alone, with entire ensembles â most famously in the 'Ascot Gavotte' â wearing custom-built coiffures integrated directly into their hats (Battelle 1957; Danzig 1957). Adler took particular pride in Andrewsâs coiffures for Eliza, noting that they were subsequently adopted by salons as everyday fashion. âShe had eleven coiffures in that show,â he explained, âbecause each one had to progress as she became more and more like a ladyâ (Holmes 1961, p. 44). In her memoirs, Andrews vividly recalled the labour this progression entailed:
My own hair was long, and pieces were added to it throughout the show as necessary. My first costume called for long, straggly curls beneath my shabby straw hat. Once Eliza was accepted into the Higgins household, I wore a long âfallâ at the back of my head, attached with a velvet bow, followed later by a beautiful twisted chignon for the ballroom scene. I not only had costume changes, quick changes, the underdressing, but also hairpiece and hat changes, too (Andrews 2008, p. 199).
Julie was not the only performer negotiating hair-related contingencies. Rex Harrison, balding and long reliant on hairpieces, found himself temporarily without one upon his arrival in New York (Maney 1957, pp. 219-220). As Walter Winchell reported with relish in his syndicated gossip column, Harrison spent his first two weeks of rehearsals being photographed for publicity âindoors and outâ wearing a hat, having informed Maney that his hairpiece had been delayed âin customsâ (Winchell 1956).
Seen now, these rehearsal-era publicity portraits capture My Fair Lady in a state of becoming: images designed to stabilise an identity that was still being formed. They remind us that the showâs eventual visual coherence was not inevitable, but carefully constructed â strand by strand, image by image â under the pressures of rehearsal, publicity, and expectation. ____________
Endnotes:
* Some of Maney's publicity images captured material that would soon vanish. A New York Times photograph published on January 1, for example, showed dancers rehearsing with choreographer Hanya Holm â almost certainly documenting the elaborate first-act transformation ballet that would be cut during the show's out-of-town try-out (McHugh 2014, p. 64).
** It is worth noting that the publicity portraits circulated at this stage present Eliza exclusively in her Act I, pre-transformation guise. The absence of her later Ascot and ballroom looks appears deliberate, preserving the visual impact of her metamorphosis for the theatre rather than the press. ______________
Sources
Andrews, J. (2008). Home: A memoir of my early years. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Battelle, P. (1957, September 26). Ernest Adler does a wave in short time. The Cedar Rapids Gazette, p. 10.
Danzig, F. (1957, December 19). Ernest Adler can stake claim to Yankee Clipper. Daily News, p. 6.
Garebian, K. (1993). The making of My Fair Lady. Toronto: ECW Press.
Holmes, M. B. (1961, October 9). Hair stylistâs role important to a play. The New York Times, p. L-44.
Maney, R. (1957). Fanfare: The confessions of a press agent. New York, NY: David McKay Company
McHugh, D. (2012). Loverly: The life and times of My Fair Lady. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
McHugh, D. (Ed.). (2014). Alan Jay Lerner: A lyricistâs letters. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Winchell, W. (1956, February 20). On Broadway. News Journal, p. 14.
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Merry Christmas, everyone!!!
Itâs that time of year! Merry Christmas!
happy 90 years of julie andrews to all who celebrate!!
i havenât shown up in here forever but my queenâs milestone must be celebrated everywhere so hereâs a little edit i put together for her special day â¤ď¸
Just You Wait (Broadway Recording)
One evening the king will say: âOh, Liza, old thing, I want all of England your praises to sing. Next week on the twentieth of May I proclaim Liza Doolittle Day! All the people will celebrate the glory of you And whatever you wish and want I gladly will do.âÂ

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Next week on the twentieth of May, I proclaim âLiza Doolittle Dayâ
Itâs mad! Itâs gay! A libelous display! Those dreary vows that evâryone takes, Evâryone breaks. Evâryone makes divine mistakes The lusty month of May!
The Lusty Month Of May - Guenevere (Julie Andrews) and Chorus
Itâs mad! Itâs gay! A libelous display! Those dreary vows that everyone takes, everyone breaks. everyone makes divine mistakes the lusty month of May!
Because itâs the first day of the month of MAY!
Because The Sound of Music is turning 60! Behind the scenes photos from People!

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Of course, Nanny and me replay the whole story over hors dâoeuvres of holiday fudge. We think weâre rather brave. Then we all sit down to our Christmas Eve feast and eat absolutely so much that all we can do is lie around and wish we hadnât eaten the fudge.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, everyone!!!