Julie Andrews was spotted for the first time in seven months on Monday while out shopping in the Hamptons.
The Sound of Music actress, 88, made a rare public appearance and used a cane to support herself as she walked from one of the stores to her car.
She looked as stylish as ever in a white jacket and black pants and accessorized with gold and blue earrings.
Julie completed her outfit with a comfortable pair of blue sneakers and wore her hair short.
A friend helped her into the waiting vehicle and she seemed in good spirits.
Julie Andrews was spotted for the first time in seven months on Monday while out shopping in the Hamptons.
The Sound of Music actress, 88, made a rare public appearance and used a cane to support herself as she walked from one of the stores to her car.
She looked as stylish as ever in a white jacket and black pants and accessorized with gold and blue earrings.
Throughout her seven-decade career, the Oscar winner has had a number of memorable roles as a star of stage and screen.
But none of them are arguably more iconic than Mary Poppins, the Walt Disney film directed by Robert Stevenson, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers.
The 1964 film, which combined live action and animation, was actually Andrews’ first feature film in her career, which ended up winning her the Academy Award for Best Actress.
In an interview with vanity fairLast year, the Surrey, England native revealed that it was music that first caught her attention and drew her to the role.
‘It was something completely new in my life that I had never done before. It was for Walt Disney, of course, and the Mary Poppins songs had a kind of vaudeville quality to them,” Andrews explained.
“I think that’s what attracted me to the role, because all that Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and Jolly Holiday kind of music was a lot like the kind of stuff you hear in English vaudeville.”
Considering that her parents were vaudevillians and she trained in the genre herself growing up, it’s easy to see why Andrews would be drawn to the role and the project as a whole.
In addition to the familiarity of the music, the actress also revealed how the nanny’s costume design, which came from the mind of her then-husband, Tony Walton, helped her capture the magical qualities of the Mary Poppins character.
Julie completed her outfit with a comfortable pair of blue sneakers and wore her hair short and cropped.
A friend helped her into the waiting vehicle and she looked in good spirits when she got out.
Throughout her seven-decade career, the Oscar winner has had a number of memorable roles as a star of stage and screen.
Andrews recalled that Walton explained to her in depth why Mary Poppins had such fun fabrics on the inside of her clothes, but no crazy exterior designs.
—Because I think that’s what gives him pleasure. “Very formal on the outside and a little bit wicked on the inside,” Walton said of Mary Poppins at the time, which proved to be invaluable information for Andrews.
‘It gave me a complete insight into his character. A great, great help for me,’ the interpreter would confess.
From a screenplay by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, based on the Mary Poppins book series by PL Travers, the film version was released in August 1964 to great commercial success and critical acclaim.
It became the highest-grossing film of 1964 and received 13 Academy Award nominations, a record for any film released by Walt Disney Studios, winning five, including Best Original Score.
After performing alongside her parents as a child actress and singer, and appearing on the West End in 1948, Andrews rose to fame starring in Broadway musicals such as My Fair Lady (1956) and Camelot (1960).
The role in Mary Poppins (1964) launched her film career and was quickly followed the following year by the role of Maria von Trapp in The Sound Of Music (1965).
Over the course of the next 20 years she worked with such acclaimed directors as her husband Blake Edwards, George Roy Hill and Alfred Hitchcock, and starred in films such as Hawaii (1966), Torn Curtain (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Star ! (1968), The Tamarind Seed (1974), 10 (1979), SOB (1981), Victor/Victoria (1982), That’s Life (1986) and Duet For One (1986).
Most recently, Andrews has voiced narrator Lady Whistledown in both seasons of the Netflix series Bridgerton (2020-present).
But none of them are arguably more iconic than Mary Poppins, the Walt Disney film directed by Robert Stevenson, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers.