Home Work
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Yearsby
This was an interesting story. I had not read her previous books, which deal with her early years and theater. This book starts with being cast as Mary Poppins and goes on from there to her extensive movie career. It ends before the surgery that ruined her voice, so you learn nothing of that.
(The co-author of this book, Emma Walton Hamilton, is Julie's daughter)
What is strange about this book is that it seems to be the story of a mother who has a side job, which takes her away from her children, and how sad she feels about that.
Her feelings about the movies she was in and the roles she played, some of which, like Sound of Music, Victor/Victoria, and Mary Poppins, are Hollywood classics, yet she never seems to feel comfortable in her performance and spends a lot of time trying to get home to see her kids. She had two step children and with husband Blake Edwards adopted two girls from Vietnam.
If there weren't so many trips across the Atlantic to homes in Europe and back to homes in the United States (necessary to keep her visa active), this would seem just like the story of your next door neighbor. Still a delightful read.
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