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Peter Brough and his doll Archie Andrews. Archie Andrews was a ventriloquist's dummy used by ventriloquist Peter Brough in radio and television shows in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps the most popular show in its radio format was called Educating Archie, [1] regularly attracting over 15 million listeners. Archie was invariably dressed ...
Dame Julie Andrews (born Julia Elizabeth Wells on 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author. [1] She has garnered numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over eight decades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, and six Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for three Tony Awards.
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years is a best-selling memoir written by Julie Andrews.It was published on April 1, 2008, by Hyperion.. Home tells the story of the life of Julie Andrews up until 1963, when she left England for Hollywood to shoot Mary Poppins and is part one of a two-part memoir, with the second part Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years, released over 11 years later in October ...
The Queen of Genovia herself, Julie Andrews, turns 80 today! The Oscar-winning actress has had quite the illustrious film career and continues to stay in the business, better than ever.
Ventriloquism or ventriloquy is an act of stagecraft in which a person (a ventriloquist) speaks in such a way that it looks like their voice is coming from a different location, usually through a puppet known as a "dummy".
When he was ten years old, his aunt won a toy ventriloquist's dummy named "Dummy Dan" in a Bingo game and gave it to her nephew for Christmas. He learned ventriloquism, and a year later, his father upgraded the dummy's mouth control from a simple string-and-loop to a lever-system like those used in professional ventriloquist's dummies.
She became one of the six Goldwyn Girls selected by Samuel Goldwyn to go on tour for the movie Guys and Dolls, in which she makes a brief appearance. Thomas was also in the movies Mary Poppins and Island of Love. She was the stand-in for Julie Andrews in some flying sequences in Mary Poppins and her stand-in in The Sound of Music.
At the time of the book's publication, Judith Viorst said of the book in the New York Times, "Unfortunately, Julie (Andrews) Edwards is more committed to improving her young readers than she is to entertaining them, and her book is sunk by an overload of virtue." [1] Author Aimee Bender cites the book as one that sticks with her most from ...