A Memoir of My Early Years</i>, Julie takes her readers on a warm, moving, and often humorous journey from a difficult upbringing in war-torn Britain to the brink of international stardom in America. Her memoir begins in 1935, when Julie was born to an aspiring vaudevillian mother and a teacher father, and takes readers to 1962, when Walt Disney himself saw her on Broadway and cast her as the world's most famous nanny. </p> <P>Along the way, she weathered the London Blitz of World War II; her parents' painful divorce; her mother's turbulent second marriage to Canadian tenor Ted Andrews, and a childhood spent on radio, in music halls, and giving concert performances all over England. Julie's professional career began at the age of twelve, and in 1948 she became the youngest solo performer ever to participate in a Royal Command Performance before the Queen. When only eighteen, she left home for the United States to make her Broadway debut in <i>The Boy Friend</i>, and thus began her meteoric rise to stardom.</p> <P><i>Home</i> is filled with numerous anecdotes, including stories of performing in <i> My Fair Lady</i> with Rex Harrison on Broadway and in the West End, and in <i> Camelot</i> with Richard Burton on Broadway; her first marriage to famed set and costume designer Tony Walton, culminating with the birth of their daughter, Emma; and the call from Hollywood and what lay beyond.</p> <P>Julie Andrews' career has flourished over seven decades. From her legendary Broadway performances, to her roles in such iconic films as <i>The Sound of Music</i>, <i>Mary Poppins</i>, <i>Thoroughly Modern Millie</i>, <i>Hawaii</i>, <i>10</i>, and <i>The Princess Diaries</i>, to her award-winning television appearances, multiple album releases, concert tours, international

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