Lifetime award for 'Mary Poppins' star Andrews

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Dame Julie Andrews is to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award when the Screen Actors Guild hands out its annual honours next year, the prestigious acting body said. The 70-year-old British star of musical classics such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound of Music" will be given the award on January 28 in recognition of an entertainment career that has spanned six decades.

Andrews won a best actress Oscar in 1964 for her famous role as the flying nanny in "Mary Poppins" but is best known for playing Maria von Trapp in "The Sound of Music". She first rose to prominence after a dazzling performance as Eliza Doolittle in the original stage production of "My Fair Lady." Andrews has been nominated for Oscars on three occasions, but missed out for "The Sound of...