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Julie Andrews is a glowing star of the stage and display screen, with a profession spanning a number of a long time. Under we breakdown her love life, which included marriages to 2 males, Tony Walton and Blake Edwards,
Tony Walton
Julie married British set and costume designer Tony Walton on Could 10, 1959 in Weybridge, Surrey. The actress initially met Tony when she was performing in Humpty Dumpty in 1948. Rising up, Julie had typically carried out along with her mom and stepfather, and, at 13, she was the youngest performer to seem at a Royal Selection efficiency.
After assembly Tony and growing a relationship with him, she walked down the aisle at 24. They share one youngster, a daughter named Emma, who presently works as a youngsters’s writer. Julie welcomed Emma in 1962, proper earlier than she shot to stardom with Mary Poppins. Tony notably designed Mary Poppins’ iconic costumes for the flick.
The couple in the end divorced in 1968 and Julie went on to marry director Blake Edwards (extra on that under). Tony handed away on March 2, 2022. Though the pair wasn’t married for too lengthy, Julie nonetheless mirrored on their love for PEOPLE after his dying. “Tony was my dearest and oldest buddy. He taught me to see the world with contemporary eyes and his expertise was merely monumental. I’ll miss him greater than I can say.”
She added, “We’re an enormous, blended household and as we maintain one another shut, we take consolation understanding that he lives on, not solely in his youngsters and grandchildren, however within the reminiscences of hundreds who cherished his heat and generosity and the fantastic items he gave us. Presents of theatre and movie, ballet and opera, the graphic arts and illustration.”
Blake Edwards
Julie’s second marriage was to director Blake Edwards, a movie director, producer, and screenwriter, in 1969. Talking with Good Morning Britain in a 2015 interview, Julie recalled her assembly Blake truly a decade earlier than they exchanged vows — like “ships that handed within the night time at some occasion.”
Then, they crossed paths but once more, making eye contact at a LA intersection driving reverse instructions from the identical therapist’s workplace. “I used to be going a method and he was going the opposite,” Julie instructed the outlet. “He rolled down the window after smiling a few occasions, and he mentioned, ‘Are you going the place I simply got here from?’ … Very corny, sorry about that.”
As well as, in an interview with Diane Sawyer, Julie mentioned she was “afraid” she was “attempting very arduous to not fall in love with him.” For Blake — the director of classics like Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Pink Panther, their meet-cute was “splendidly Hollywood.”
On the time of the so-called “meet-cute,” each Julie and Blake had been married (Julie to the aforementioned Tony Walton). In 1967, they each divorced their respective spouses and reconnected, occurring up to now after their divorces had been finalized.
Blake and Julie tied the knot at Julie’s dwelling in November 1969 two years after courting one another. They continued to lift their youngsters collectively (he had two youngsters, Jennifer and Geoffrey from his first marriage to Patricia Walker). In addition they then adopted two daughters, Amy and Joanna, who had been each orphans from Vietnam. Furthermore, they lived internationally, with houses in LA, London, and Gstaad in Switzerland.
Blake handed away of pneumonia issues in 2010 at age 88 following a battle with power fatigue syndrome.
“Blake was probably the most charismatic and attention-grabbing fellow you might probably meet,” Andrews recalled during a talk promoting her 2019 memoir House Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years. “He was hilariously humorous and had such a darkish humorousness that simply put me away, that I liked a lot. However he was additionally, at occasions, a really depressive character and had a really tough time.”
The Sound of Music actress recalled her tough childhood with an alcoholic mom and step-father as what might have result in her try and “save” her husband from his “monsters.”
“You must bear in mind, I used to be very used to that form of factor, as a result of I used to be a really massive codependent with my family, and so I grew to become that with Blake,” she mentioned.
