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Julie Andrews reveals what drew her to Mary Poppins role... five decades after winning Oscar

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Julie Andrews has had a slew of memorable roles as a star of the stage and the screen over a seven-decade career.But, arguably, none of them are 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 combines live-action and animation, was actually Andrews' first feature film of her career, which ended up winning her the Academy Award for Best Actress.In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the Surrey, England native revealed that it was the music that first grabbed her attention and drew her to the role.

Music to her ears: Julie Andrews, 86, revealed that it was the music of Mary Poppins, which was written by the Sherman Brothers, that first drew her in to want to play the iconic role'It was a brand new thing in my life that I'd never done before.

It was for Walt Disney, of course, and the songs in Mary Poppins had a kind of Vaudeville quality to them,' the actress, 86, explained.'I think it’s what attracted me to the role, because all that kind of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and Jolly Holiday music was very much like the kind of things that you hear in English vaudeville.' Considering that her parents were vaudeville performers and that she, herself, was trained in the genre while growing up,it's easy to see why Andrews would be attracted to the role and the project as a whole.Along with 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 grasp the magical qualities of the Mary Poppins character.

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