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...Tony Walton's guess that Julie's self-concern stems from "this guilt feeling about taking it easy," but she is probably a lot healthier than even she gives herself credit for. After all, any girl who eats boiled-potato sandwiches and goes around in a car singing at the top of her lungs...
Soon Julie was playing the prestigious pantomime circuit-Britain's traditional holiday-season pageants for children. During the run of a Christmas "panto" in London, she met Tony Walton, who was 14 and, coincidentally, also nailed from Walton-on-Thames (though there is no connection between the family name and that of the town). She remembers Tony as "one of three goons from home" gawking from the front row. He remembers her "for those long, bandy, chocolate-covered legs...
Street Arab. Toward the end of her Fair Lady run, Julie and Tony Walton got married. He had become a noted stage and costume designer in London, and for a brief moment Julie considered retiring. "But," as Tony says, "work was the only thing she knew." And besides, Moss Hart, with Lerner and Frederick Loewe, authors of My Fair Lady, wanted Julie to play opposite Burton in Camelot, a stylish retelling of the Arthurian legend. Camelot lacked the magic of Fair Lady, but audiences loved it. Julie had a ball too. Recalls Burton: "One night a large, woolly...
Consolation Oscar. For a little bit of luck, up popped Walt Disney, who wanted Julie to play Mary Poppins and Walton to do the set and costume-design. Julie was dubious. Recalls Julie's pal Carol Burnett: "She asked me, 'Do you think I ought to? Go to work for Walt Disney? The cartoon person?' " Carol assured her that Disney did indeed do other things besides cartoons. Later, Julie got a telephone call from Poppins' author, Pamela Travers. "P. Travers here," said P. Travers briskly. "Speak to me. Can you be tough? Can you be tender...
Midnight Birds. With all her success, Julie is now facing up to the inevitable cliché that infects married couples who get deeply involved in their separate professions: Whither goest who? The answer is that Walton goeth to London, Julie to Hollywood. The result is that they are separated by more than an ocean and a continent. At one point, they corresponded on tape. "Every day, out went the tapes," says Tony. "Julie saying how frightened she was of acting, how unreal the whole thing was. But we got too good at the tapes and a bit too tricky. Every...