Watch ‘Sound Of Music’ Stars Shock Julie Andrews With A ‘Do-Re-Mi’ Singalong

Hollywood’s hills have been alive with the sound of music this week in celebration of Julie Andrews and her six-decade film profession.

The “Mary Poppins” actor obtained the American Movie Institute’s Life Achievement Award Thursday evening in Los Angeles. The ceremony happened on the Dolby Theatre after a two-year delay as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.

Cynthia Erivo honored Andrews with a musical efficiency, whereas actors Hector Elizondo and Anne Hathaway ― who appeared alongside Andrews in “The Princess Diaries” ― additionally supplied tributes. The night’s most buzzed-about second, nevertheless, was an onstage reunion of Andrews’ “Sound of Music” co-stars.

Angela Cartwright, Duane Chase, Nicholas Hammond, Kym Karath and Debbie Turner ― who portrayed 5 of the seven von Trapp youngsters within the 1965 film musical ― led the group in a singalong of “Do-Re-Mi” from the movie.

The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg captured the heartwarming second in a video posted to social media.

Andrews’ iconic efficiency as Maria von Trapp in “The Sound of Music” got here only one yr after she received an Academy Award for “Mary Poppins.” The film depicts the real-life von Trapp household’s escape from Nazi-occupied Austria shortly earlier than World Conflict II. It obtained 5 Oscars, together with Greatest Image and Greatest Director for Robert Sensible.

Sadly, not each member of the onscreen von Trapp household was in attendance. Christopher Plummer, who performed Captain Georg von Trapp, died final yr at age 91. Actors Charmian Carr and Heather Menzies, who portrayed Liesl and Louisa von Trapp, died in 2016 and 2017 at ages 73 and 68, respectively.

Andrews has been having fun with a interval of heightened visibility recently, thanks partly to Netflix’s “Bridgerton,” which she narrates because the intriguingly haughty Girl Whistledown. This summer season, she offers the voice of Marlena Gru in “Minions: The Rise of Gru.”

Chatting with “Leisure Tonight” Thursday, Andrews mentioned she loves voice-over roles, joking, “I don’t should get into make-up and hair within the morning if I don’t wish to.”