Her second marriage was to director Blake Edwards from 1969 until he died in 2010.
Do we need yet another harvesting of this over-ploughed field? A bare breast is more difficult to get through the censors than a body riddled with bullets.
Starting with an unhappy childhood in Surrey in which she was forced to become the breadwinner for her alcoholic parents, followed by two difficult marriages and a career riddled with disappointments, Andrews' life was most unlike that of her saintly on-screen personas.
It actually took ten long years to get the controversial and troubled production to the big screen.
Years later, she talked hilariously about the experience on The Graham Norton Show.
First off, is it true? I grew up with a very specific idea of Julie Andrews - she was the kindly, magical nanny who could teleport me at a whim into a street painting with bad cockney chimney sweeps, while also resisting the Nazis, all while holding an impressive tune.