Julie Andrews On Why She Wasn't Cast In 'My Fair Lady' | The Dick Cavett Show

my first guest is an incredibly talented woman I think and a lovely actress and she has starred in some of the most popular and financially successful movies ever made it's nice when movies are both although it isn't necessary they include as you must know Mary Poppins in Hawaii and the Americanization of Emily and the Sound of Music and what have I left that star darling Lily she's been in all lots of films and I'm delighted that she's here tonight I met her once that she doesn't remember maybe it'll come to her during the evening I'll tease her with it welcome please the beautiful and wonderful Miss Julie Andrews [Applause] [Music] what you said that's a dirty trick that I met once met you Winston didn't tell because I saw you the other night here in town but I was outside the Dixie hotel and you came buying a cab and you whistle right no that was someone else no but you were outside the Dixie or death does this Dixie those tails do it I guess it must be no I I don't want to keep doing suspense at some point during the evening I'll reveal it let me know when the suspense gets so unbearable how about ice cream right now no I wouldn't wait well I'll wait what you're not gonna snatch off your hair like Carol Burnett did that was a great shock to say to a woman when what are you doing you let your hair down and she said this and pulled it off she's a good friend of yours actually talking about the Dixie hotel we decided that if we ever did another special we would do it in the lobby of the Dixie hotel well that's a good idea we thought it would be fun I know for people when I was a kid Oh way back on the Jackie Gleason show there was Easter give this to a joke about memoirs of an elevator operator and the Dixie hotel it's been a joke for years although the hotel is all fixed up now and well we tried Filene's basement or something like what does that mean filings basement it's a bargain basement in a you know shop called Filene's in Boston oh I just did a commercial didn't I oh you may have yes you may get a bargain in the mail your kids recognize you on the street as Mary Poppins hmm yes and they sometimes expect me to do something magical and then it's very hard do you carry any tricks about with you can do tough across the ear usually it's touching Debussy feels well that was your first film wasn't it yes nothing else from you'd never done any little films here no no I did I did a commercial in England once for something rather nothing we prepared for the great success of it were you floored by the happen I had made Poppins and Emily and The Sound of Music and none of them had been released so I had all the great fun of making films and none of the responsibility of having released they were all in the can yeah so to speak and then and then all came out yes well kind of just not together yeah what is there a kind of role that you'd really like to get into to kind of get out of the pure image you have do you know what I mean by the pure image kind of yeah yeah I mean sweet and very nice and very proper and very lovely and well if you could think of the opposite of that it might help you know yeah using everyone knows that you're not really any of those things oh of course and damn right why Jen no but would you like to do a real lowdown wretched Tobacco Road tag all right really I wouldn't mind doing a low-down kind of hokey thing you know something really wacky and wild that would be great I'd love to do an out-and-out comedy and try that and I'd like to do a modern film I've never done anything that wasn't in a period costume you know I was in the period film I mean even Emily which sort of seems modern had was 1942 or some what about a hit to the head you guys I'm sorry you're out no you're right you must be nice to be able to forget an entire mmm you know could you clear up one thing for me and then we'll never have to discuss you tell me where we met okay well right after right after this okay why did you not make the movie of my fair lady it's never been completely explained to me it's very simple I had never made a movie I was not a star I was not box-office but you were you were the star of it on me everybody bought the record people on Broadway all around Broadway might know but certainly people out in the middle of America and out here and didn't know me from Adam you know yeah and so I I understand you never forget wait so you must have been really silly well zoo certainly requires nice to have the kind of compensation that I had which was Mary Poppins and so I felt you know kind of was that decision but made by one man or a group of people I don't really know um I honestly I don't know why maybe I was silly but I didn't really hold out much hope for it I mean I didn't think that I would get it just because I knew I'd never made a film and how could I and all that kind of thing yeah so it wasn't that great a surprise yeah I'll tell you where we met when your dressing room would wear which dress are we on the air I was still in college when my fair lady opened yes and it opened in New Haven yes and an opening night which was a thunderstorm or a snowstorm or something yeah and something went badly wrong I remember must heart came out before the curtain and said everyone went Oh cuz they heard all about this show yes and he said no nobody's sick it's but one of the turntables those ten tables we had neither of them are gonna work and he just warned the audience but you came back after I was there and I there was a sense of just gigantic success about it that night people who went about an hour longer than normal because stagehands had to come on and turn the table that's right crank them by hand only show down about four hours and it was the first time we'd ever really done it anyway you know with an audience and I remember I got my wig on backwards that night you did yes I had an incredibly fast changed and I've just you know I had different hairstyles for different parts of the year play and I ran in and put on my wig and got in my costume ran out and did my number and came off and at the end of the show Cecil Beaton came back your is and he said not that way you silly girl this way and turned your hair around like should have been the same thing in him yes I think he does doesn't think I'm not sure he forgave me later yeah what's funny I'm surprised with all the excitement of that night that you don't remember Mike coming I was just a student and people were thronging backstage and I thought I'm gonna see where they're going I don't remember any one particular student you know there were many of us well it's probably because I didn't either say anything to you or make myself known and I was still in a stew and stepped into the dressing room and stepped out you were wearing some sort of plaid pants was I yeah yeah though you really were they were I'll never forget them they were trials I mean I'm sick I'll give them to you if you're not stand up let's see well I don't think really sit well that's all I've always wanted those pins no I'm not even sure yeah it was though it was yeah it was the first night sure you remember a pair of sort of red plaid pants I remember I wish I could say I remembered you but isn't that cool maybe if I were red and plaid [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Id: 7n3OPor59V0

Length: 8min 7sec (487 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 15 2019