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Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (née Wells; born 1 October 1935) is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honours.
Andrews is a former child actress and singer who made her Broadway debut in a 1954 production of The Boy Friend, and rose to prominence starring in musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, both of which earned her Tony Award nominations. In 1957, she made her television debut with the title role in Cinderella, which was seen by over 100 million viewers.
Andrews made her feature film debut in Mary Poppins (1964), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her second Academy Award nomination for The Sound of Music (1965). Adjusted for inflation, these two films are the 25th and 3rd highest grossing films of all time, respectively. From 1964 to 1967, Andrews was the biggest film star in the world, with the additional box office successes of her films The Americanization of Emily, Hawaii, Torn Curtain, and Thoroughly Modern Millie.
Actors: William S. Burroughs (writer), Judy Davis (actress), Jeremy Thomas (producer), Judy Davis (actress), Peter Weller (actor), Louis Ferreira (actor), Monique Mercure (actress), Nicholas Campbell (actor), Julian Sands (actor), Ian Holm (actor), Howard Jerome (actor), Sean McCann (actor), Roy Scheider (actor), Julian Richings (actor), David Cronenberg (writer),
Plot: Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burrough's novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with elements of his work in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee, a writer who accidentally shoots his wife, whose typewriter transforms into a cockroach and who becomes involved in a mysterious plot in North African port called Interzone. Wonderfully bizarre, not unlike Burrough's books.
Keywords: 1950s, accidental-shooting, actor-playing-multiple-roles, adultery, alien, alienation, bar, based-on-novel, bazaar, beachActors: Jane Novak (actress), Al Ernest Garcia (actor), Jean Hersholt (director), Jean Hersholt (actor), Jack Livingston (actor), Jane Novak (actress), Broderick O'Farrell (actor), Bert Sprotte (actor), Otto Matieson (actor), Elizabeth Mahoney (writer), Lewis H. Moomaw (director), Lewis H. Moomaw (writer), William Dills (actor), Allan Hersholt (actor),
Genres: Drama,