Home Work: A Memoir of my Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews

 

Home Work: A Memoir of my Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews with Emma Walton Hamilton. Hachette, 2019. Adult memoir.

Beginning with her arrival in Hollywood, Julie Andrews continued her career that led her to such successes on Broadway in America. But, the movies she made were not the plays she knew so well such as Camelot and My Fair Lady. Her starring role in Mary Poppins is classic. Her role of Maria in The Sound of Music is, too.  Her role as tap dancing and singing Millie brought more fame. And, so it continued professionally to television, movie, and book successes. This memoir includes personal details and stories about her daughter, Emma, as well as her divorce and then finding love and marriage with Blake Edwards, also quite successful in Hollywood, and the adoption of two more children. (She and Blake Edwards were married 25 years before he died at age 88.) Readers will enjoy the honesty about some famous Hollywood personalities, the difficulties of being a mother and an international film star, and the realities of how Julie Andrews balanced it all. She comes across as humble and blessed. 

Check out Home, Julie Andrew's memoir about her upbringing and early years. Her early years were difficult and her family was dependent on her success and paychecks. That novel takes readers through her successes on Broadway and marriage to Tony Hamilton. This book goes through her major years in Hollywood and points toward the future. But, who knows that future holds?  Surely, the author will continue with another book about later life and the loss of her spectacular singing voice and her successes as a children's and adult author.  Readers know there is more yet to come like the Eloise television specials and the Princess films, too.