During the time The
Julie Andrews Hour was being taped, everyone knew that Julie and
her family
were spending their weekends at the beach in Malibu. This was mentioned in
Blake Edward’s documentary, Julie, and in every magazine interview. But Malibu is a big
place. It includes the “Movie Colony,” a gated community where stars have spent time since the 1930s. So, no one really knew where the Edwards’ home
was. Yet despite the fact that two of the fans I knew, Patty and Kelly, had followed Julie to
the Movie Colony one weekend, I was pretty sure that was not where her
home was.
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| One of my favorite photos of Julie Andrews, taken in Malibu the summer or fall of 1972. |
Even before I was born, my maternal grandmother
owned land in Malibu. As a teenager, my mother spent her summer weekends at the
family’s small cottage on a large plot of land, where, in the mid-1950s, my grandmother built a lovely home
on the hill over-looking the ocean. Much of my early childhood was spent there
and movie actors were no strangers to me. In fact, one of my childhood pals was Allen Jenkins, a character actor who had worked in numerous films with Humphrey
Bogart and Edward G. Robinson. Will Rogers Jr and his family were our
neighbors.
... In this blog, the author discovers that, indeed, Julie Andrews and her family had been closer to her grandmother's home than she ever know.
This blog has been abbreviated toward re-writing this subject for a new book.
(c) Michelle Russell
Coming Next: Beverly Hills Adventure
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