This movie was originally made in black and white but it is now possible to get it in colour as it has been colourised. Julie's performane in this film has been said to be one of the finest in her career but his film was overshadowed by the success of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music that followed. There is a soundtrack album available but there are no Julie vocals on it. Although not on the soundtrack, there is a good version of the title song "Emily" sung by Frank Sinatra available also.
The Sound of Music was the next movie that Julie made. Julie was thought of for the role of "Maria" after performing a parody of The Sound of Music with her friend Carol Burnett called "The Swiss Family Pratt" in their television special "Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall". There was a rumour around Hollywood that Julie might not photogenic enough for films and so Robert Wise, the director of The Sound of Music went and saw a tiny clip of Mary Poppins before it was released. Within moments, he knew that Julie was right for the role.
Christopher Plummer was cast as the Captain, Eleanor Parker as the Baroness, Richard Hayden as Max Detweiler and Peggy Wood as the Mother Abbess. The story of The Sound of Music is based on the true story of Maria Von Trapp. Maria, a young trainee nun in Saltzburg is sent to be a governess for Captain Von Trapp's children.
She teaches them to sing and brings music back into the house. The Captain falls in love with her and after she returns to the house (after escaping to the abbey to get way from the Captain and her feelings), they get married. The whole family then flee from Austria to get away from the Nazis.
The music and lyrics were provided by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Some of the song include
Abner Hale was played by Max Von Sydow and the sea captain, Rafer Hoxworth was played by Richard Harris.
It's a really long movie but a good one. Julie's performance is excellent. Despite this being a non-musical film, Julie sang "My Wishing Doll" which was nominated for an Academy Award. The soundtrack for Hawaii is available but the song "My Wishing Doll" sung by Julie is not on it.
Torn Curtain was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and also starred Paul Newman. Paul Newman plays Micheal Armstrong who is a scientist and Julie plays his girlfriend Sarah Sherman.
The story is set in East Germany where Michael defects to the Germans. Sarah follows him behind the iron curtain and is upset that he has defected especially as they were supposed to be getting married. He finally tells her that he has only pretended to defect in order to obtain a scientific formula. The story becomes dramatic when they are in danger of being discovered and they have to both try and escape Germany. One of the best scenes in the movie is the fight scene involving Michael as he is being discovered. This was also a non-musical role for Julie but despite that, there is a soundtrack of the film available.
The next movie Julie made was Thoroughly Modern Millie. It was set in 1922 in the style of The Boyfriend. Julie plays Millie Dilmount, a country girl who comes to the city, becomes a secretary and plans to marry her boss (when she finds him). She lives in a hotel run by Mrs Meers (Beatrice Lillie), who is the ringleader in a white-slavery organisation. Here she meets Miss Dorothy (Mary Tyler Moore), an orphan from California. They become fast friends but Mrs Meers is after Miss Dorothy for her slavery industry.
At a party, Millie meets Jimmy (James Fox), a lovable guy who is not serious about anything, except Millie. Millie then becomes employed by Trevor Graydon (John Gavin), who Millie falls helplessly in love with but unknown to her, he has fallen in love with Miss Dorothy. This is a great film with a lot of songs such as
Star! was made in 1968 and is based on the life of Gertrude Lawrence. Julie was considered for the role orignally when she was in My Fair Lady when parallels were drawn between her life and the life of Gertrude Lawrence. Both Julie and Gertrude started out in British music hall and then they both became great ladies of the theater. Despite this simularity bwteen them, they were completely different wome. Gertrude was difficult, bitchy and very extravagant where as Julie was the complete opposite. This caused a bit of a problem when the film was released and audiences did not want to see Julie in that type of role. They found it hard to accept Julie as the bitchy, self-centered woman and not the person that they all had grown to love after films such as Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music.
Because of this, the film failed to do well at the box offices and then it was cut down in length and re-titled Those Were the Happy Times. Julie teamed up with Robert Wise again (director of The Sound of Music) and she appears in almost every scene of this 162 minute film.
Star! is a fantastic film and it contains 15 musical numbers and some of the best work that Julie has done. There is a film soundtrack available and contains a huge selection of songs by Gershwin, and Noel Coward and others such as
Darling Lili was the next movie that Julie made. It started filming in March, 1968 and wasn't released in the theaters until June, 1970. It was the first movie that Julie made in collaboration with Blake Edwards. Julie plays Lili Smith who is an English entertainer during World War 1 but she is also a German spy whose real name is Lili Schmit. Her main objective is to find out millitary secrets from an American named Major William Larrabee (played by Rock Hudson) by seducing him. Instead, she ends up falling in love with him and things get a bit tricky. Unfortunatey, this movie did not do well at the box-offices.
It got a lot of negative comments due to the oversized budget and also the press critisised the movie because of Julie and Blakes's relationship. It was also very soon after the box-office disaster of Star!. This movie contains some lovely songs by Julie including
The Tamarind Seed was made in 1974 and was directed by Blake Edwards. This film was based on the novel by Evelyn Anthony and it was the second film the Julie and Blake did together. Julie plays Judith Farrow. She is a young woman who works as a secretary for the British Home Office and meets whilst on holiday in Barbados Feodor Sverdlov (played by Omar Sharif) who is a Soviet secret service man.
Both their governments start to worry that secrets are being exchanged. They eventually fall in love and their affair turns into a great international espionage. This film, when it was released was quite successful overseas but it failed to make any money in the US.
Julie had a break of about 6 years before she made her next movie. She returned to movies with a small part in the movie "10". This film starred Dudley Moore and it was his first major film role. George Webber's (played by Dudley Moore) is a highly successful composer who finds himself unsatisfied with life. He sees his "10" rating woman in the form of Bo Derek and he then impulsively starts to give chase.
He then finds himself on a psychiatrist's couch, in a dentist chair and finally on a tropical island.
Julie plays Samantha, his faithful girlfriend and who also is a singer. Both Bo Derek and Dudley Moore became overnight celebrities and Julie was reintroduced to the movie scene. Although this film is not a musical, Julie can be heard singing 2 songs, "It's Easy to Say" and "He Pleases Me". There is a soundtrack available on CD which also features Bolero.
This film was the fourth adaptation of the story by Damon Runyon. It is set in the Depression era and Julie plays Amanda. She is a penniless heiress who puts up her house for a gambling operation. She becomes involved with one of the bookies when he obtains a little girl as a "marker" for her father’s gambling debts.
Walter Matthau plays Jones, the sorrowful bookie and Sara Stimpson plays "Little Miss Marker". The film, when it was released in March 1980, was given little promotion and dismissed by the critics despite fantastic performances by both Julie and Walter Matthau. 
S. O. B. Stands for Standard Operating Bull. It was written by Blake Edwards originally to demonstrate the pressures and the ugly behaviours of the Hollywood industry that he witnessed whilst filming Darling Lili. It tells a story of a movie producer (Richard Mulligan) who has a nervous breakdown after his latest film becomes a bomb at the box office. The movie was a musical that starred his wife Sally (played by Julie) who is a very famous star with a very wholesome public image.
The studio then cuts off all funding and he decides that he will regain his film project and also save his career in Hollywood. His idea is to turn the wholesome musical into a porn film and get his wife expose her breasts in order to attract millions to the box office. 
Victor/Victoria was based on the German film Viktor und Viktoria and created by Blake Edwards to show off Julie’s incredible and wide-ranging talents. Julie plays Victoria Grant, a penniless soprano who meets Toddy (Robert Preston) who persuades her to pretend to be a man who is a female impersonator. Thus "Victoria" becomes "Count Victor Grazinski" and becomes the toast of Paris. James Garner plays King Marchan, a Chicago nightclub owner who falls for "Victoria" not knowing that she is really a he. He becomes determined to prove that he is actually a she, His flashy Chicago girlfriend, Norma is played by Lesley-Ann Warren and bodyguard Squash is played by Alex Karras.
Julie won a Golden Globe Award for her role in Victor/Victoriaand was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Victor/Victoria received a total of seven Academy Award nominations but only won the Oscar for Best Score (for Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse). There are several musical numbers performed including
This is another Blake Edwards film and was adapted from a 1977 French comedy by Francois Truffaut.
Burt Reynold plays David Fowler, a womanising sculptor who goes to see a Marianna, a psychiatrist (played by Julie) to relieve his creative block.
Instead, he falls in love with her and they then have to deal with the problems involved with their situation. Unfortunately this film was not successful at the box office and disappeared very quickly after its release in late 1983.
That’s Life! was a family film starring Julie, Emma Walton (Julie’s daughter), Jennifer Edwards (Blake’s daughter), family friend Jack Lemmon and his son Chris.
The story came from a thirteen page synopsis written by Blake Edwards describing the story of a man having a mid life crisis. Much of the dialogue was improvised by the actors and the film was also shot in Julie and Blake’s house in Malibu. Julie plays Gillian Fairchild, the wife of Harry (played by Jack Lemmon).
Harry is a self-absorbed, hypochondriac
who is having a mid life crisis as his 60th birthday is arriving. Gillian is awaiting the results of a biopsy she has had on her throat and has to deal with the bickering of her family and their personal problems as well as Harry’s midlife crisis.
This film was reasonably successful when it was released in September 1986 and was extremely low budget since it was filmed in their own home. Julie said that working with her daughter was like "sort of a dream come true" and they had some terrific scenes together. Julie was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1987 for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for her performance in That’s Life!
Duet for One was based on the play by Tom Kempinski and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Julie plays Stephanie Anderson, a concert violinist who has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She goes to see a psychiatrist (Max Von Sydow) to try and help her through her problems and fears. She eventually has to give up concert performances, she then loses her husband (Alan Bates) to his secretary and has a brief affair with a scrap merchant (Liam Neeson).
Rupert Everett also stars as Stephanie’s finest pupil. Julie did a lot of research for this role and she met quite a lot of people with multiple sclerosis. She also studied for weeks in order to give the appearance of playing the violin. Julie was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1983 for Best Actress in a Drama and her performance has been said to be one of the finest in her career.
A Fine Romance (also called Tchin-Tchin) was made in 1990 but not released until 1992. It is based on the play by Francois Billetdoux. It is set in France and also stars Marcello Mastroianni. The original title Tchin-Tchin refers to the clink of wine glasses during a toast.
Julie plays Pamela Picquet, an Englishwoman whose husband has run off with another woman. Marcello Mastroianni plays Cesaro Gramaldi, the husband of the woman who has run of with Pamela’s husband. They meet in attempt to get their spouses back.
Along the way, they end up at a health clinic and a romantic hotel in the French countryside and eventually fall in love.
When the film was released, it only had a limited run but it is available on video. A Fine Romance has been released under several titles such as Tchin-Tchin in Europe and Australia, An Afternoon Tea in Bed in Japan and also A Touch of Adultery in the United Kingdom.
