EXCLUSIVE: Julie Andrews, 87, looks radiant as she’s spotted walking with the help of a cane in rare sighting while out shopping and getting flowers in The Hamptons
Julie Andrews looked as radiant as ever as she picked up a beautiful bouquet of flowers at the Sag Harbor farmers market in The Hamptons on Sunday.
Making a rare public outing, the veteran Hollywood star, 87, appeared in good spirits as she smiled at onlookers as she moved around with the help of a cane.
For her relaxed outing, the Sound of Music actress wore a light gray long sleeve, fitted pants and a white scarf.
She accessorized her chic ensemble with a beige tote bag, white sneakers and gold earrings.
The six-time Golden Globe winner also carried two boxes of Lu Petit Ecolier European dark chocolate cookies, which retail for $5.49, back to her car.
Cheerful: Julie Andrews looked as radiant as ever as she picked up a beautiful bouquet of flowers at the Sag Harbor farmers market in The Hamptons on Sunday
Timeless: she accessorized her chic ensemble with a beige tote bag, white sneakers and gold earrings
While getting into the passenger seat of a white SUV, a man held an umbrella over her head as it started to sprinkle.
Throughout her seven-decade career, the Oscar winner has had a string of memorable roles as a star of stage and screen.
But none of them are undoubtedly 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 of her career, ultimately earning her the Academy Award for Best Actress.
In an interview with Vanity fairLast year, the Surrey, England native revealed that it was the 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 songs in Mary Poppins had a vaudeville quality to them,” Andrews explained.
“I think that’s what attracted me to the role, because all that kind of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and Jolly Holiday music was very similar to the kind of thing you hear in English vaudeville.”
Considering that her parents were vaudeville performers and that she herself was trained in the genre growing up, it’s easy to see why Andrews would be drawn to the role and the project as a whole.
On the way home: While getting into the passenger seat of a white SUV, a man held an umbrella over her head as it started to sprinkle
Sweet tooth: The six-time Golden Globe winner was also seen carrying two boxes of Lu Petit Ecolier European dark chocolate cookies, which retail for $5.49, back to her car
Beloved Artist: Throughout her seven-decade career, the Oscar winner has had a slew of memorable roles as a star of stage and screen
In addition to the music’s fame, the actress also revealed how the sitter’s costume design, which came from the mind of her then-husband, Tony Walton, helped her understand the magical qualities of the Mary Poppins character.
Andrews recalled that Walton explained to her in detail why Mary Poppins had such fun fabrics on the inside of her clothes, but no crazy outer designs.
‘Because I think that’s what gives her pleasure. Very formal on the outside, and a bit naughty on the inside,” Walton said of Mary Poppins at the time, which proved invaluable to Andrews.
‘It gave me a complete idea of her character. A very big help for me,” the artist 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 critical acclaim and commercial success.
It became the highest-grossing film of 1964 and received 13 Academy Awards nominations, a record for any film released by Walt Disney Studios, winning five, including Best Original Musical Score.
A household name: after starring alongside her parents as a child actress and singer, appearing on the West End in 1948, Andrews rose to fame starring in Broadway musicals such as My Fair Lady (1956) and Camelot (1960).
Still working: Most recently, Andrews voiced the narrator Lady Whistledown in the two seasons of the Netflix series Bridgerton (2020–present)
Iconic: The role in Mary Poppins (1964) launched her film career; featured in the beloved musical fantasy film, directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney
After starring alongside her parents as a child actress and singer, appearing on the West End in 1948, Andrews rose to prominence 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 next year by the role Maria von Trapp in The Sound Of Music (1965).
Over the next twenty years, she worked with such acclaimed directors as husband Blake Edwards, George Roy Hill and Alfred Hitchcock, and starred in such films 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).
More recently, Andrews voiced the narrator Lady Whistledown in the two seasons of the Netflix series Bridgerton (2020–present).