Broadway Baby: Julie Andrews

Our Dame Julie Andrews hasn't always been Mary Poppins or Fraulein Maria. She started out on Broadway playing the role of Polly Brown in The Boyfriend. Her second show was My Fair Lady, where she left her mark and made Audrey Hepburn look like a whiny school girl. Camelot was her last show. That was all before Walt Disney discovered her and turned her into our favorite magical nanny. Before Robert Wise made her our fearless governess.

Julie was only 19 when she moved from her hometown of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England to New York. She had been asked to play Polly Brown, a flapper of the 1920's. She did, ...