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Home work : a memoir of my Hollywood years / Julie Andrews with Emma Walton Hamilton.

Andrews, Julie, (author.). Hamilton, Emma Walton, (author.).

Summary:

In this follow-up to her memoir, 'Home', Julie Andrews shares reflections on her astonishing career, including such classics as 'Mary Poppins', 'The Sound of Music', and 'Victor/Victoria'. Co-written with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, and told with Andrews' trademark charm and candour, 'Home Work' takes us on a rare and intimate journey into an extraordinary life that is funny, heartrending, and inspiring.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780316349253 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 340 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Hachette Books, 2019.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Subject: Andrews, Julie > Fiction.
Motion picture actors and actresses > Great Britain > Fiction.
Singers > Great Britain > Fiction.
Genre: Autobiographies.
Biographies.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Lakeshore Branch 791.43028092 Andre 31681010171734 NONFIC Available -
Stroud Branch LP 791.43028092 Andre 31681010171767 LARGEPT Available -

  • Baker & Taylor
    With this second memoir, Julie Andrews picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her phenomenal rise to fame in her earliest films -- Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. Andrews describes her years in the film industry, from the incredible highs to the challenging lows. Not only does she discuss her work in now-classic films and her collaborations with giants of cinema and television, she also unveils her personal story of adjusting to a new and often daunting world, dealing with the demands of unimaginable success, being a new mother, the end of her first marriage, embracing two stepchildren, adopting two more children, and falling in love with the brilliant and mercurial Blake Edwards. The pair worked together in numerous films, including Victor/Victoria, the gender-bending comedy that garnered multiple Oscar nominations.
  • Baker & Taylor
    In a follow-up to the critically acclaimed Home, the beloved performing artist reflects on her Hollywood career and the creations of three of her most iconic films, Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music and Victor/Victoria. 300,000 first printing. Movie tie-in.
  • Grand Central Pub
    In this New York Times bestselling follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews reflects on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Victor/Victoria.

    In Home, the number one New York Times international bestseller, Julie Andrews recounted her difficult childhood and her emergence as an acclaimed singer and performer on the stage.

    With this second memoir, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years, Andrews picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her phenomenal rise to fame in her earliest films -- Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. Andrews describes her years in the film industry -- from the incredible highs to the challenging lows. Not only does she discuss her work in now-classic films and her collaborations with giants of cinema and television, she also unveils her personal story of adjusting to a new and often daunting world, dealing with the demands of unimaginable success, being a new mother, the end of her first marriage, embracing two stepchildren, adopting two more children, and falling in love with the brilliant and mercurial Blake Edwards. The pair worked together in numerous films, including Victor/Victoria, the gender-bending comedy that garnered multiple Oscar nominations.

    Cowritten with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, and told with Andrews's trademark charm and candor, Home Work takes us on a rare and intimate journey into an extraordinary life that is funny, heartrending, and inspiring.

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