Dancing Through Musical Theater

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“Charmian was enchanting as an actress and as a person. She has left us much too soon along with bits of our hearts. We will miss her dreadfully.” - Christopher Plummer

Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant photographed by Brian Bowen Smith, 2016 (✗)

Julie Andrews ~ The Sound of Music, 1965

Happy 15th Anniversary to the Princess of Genovia. The Princess Diaries released on this day 15 years ago!

Contact sheet stills from Mary Poppins

julie blessing her future children emily and lin by gracing them with her presence

Star - 1968

Meryl Streep arrives for the UK film premiere of “Florence Foster Jenkins”, 12 April  2016, London, England

Meryl Streep | ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’ World Premiere - UK, 2016

These women inspired me. The derivation of that word is from the Latin in-spirare: to breathe life into, to fill with life, to breathe in–and i did. I gasped when I saw these women. It made me want to be something, to achieve something, to express my humanity, my aliveness, my connection to that radiant, important creation which was a woman.”

Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep present a lifetime achievement award to US director Robert Altman at the 78th Academy Awards in Hollywood, March 5, 2006

Julie Andrews and daughter Emma on the set with Robert Wise the director of The Sound of Music, 1965 

Jury members Meryl Streep, Malgorzata Szumowska and Alba Rohrwacher attend the closing ceremony of the 66th Berlinale International Film Festival on February 20, 2016 in Berlin, Germany.

The Sound of Music - 1965