{"id":465291,"date":"2026-02-07T23:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/465291\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T23:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:34:12","slug":"crowd-gasps-as-julie-andrews-takes-revenge-in-acceptance-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/465291\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowd gasps as Julie Andrews takes revenge in acceptance speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Julie Andrews landed one of the most cutting burns of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"award show history\">award show history<\/a> on February 8, 1965.The Sound of Music star Andrews only thanked one person in her acceptance speech at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/golden-globes\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"the Golden Globes.\">the Golden Globes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrews had been a Broadway sensation for her lead role in the musical My Fair Lady.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/1651d307-4826-4c0f-a549-e85b9e404762.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>Actress Julie Andrews landed one of the most cutting burns of award show history on February 8, 1965. (Golden Globes)<\/p>\n<p>But her casting in the film version was vetoed by studio boss Jack Warner.<\/p>\n<p>Instead the movie starred Audrey Hepburn, with her singing voice dubbed by Marni Nixon.<\/p>\n<p>But after seeing her on stage, another studio head, Walt Disney, cast Andrews in his own upcoming movie.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a8d8407a-5283-4c96-8c0f-9434f50d0925.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>Andrews had been a Broadway sensation for her lead role in the musical My Fair Lady. (Friedman-Abeles)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a7cb9723-070e-4e69-a809-9ac6754c2980.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>The crowd gasped and then burst into laughter at the playful jab. (Golden Globes)<\/p>\n<p>Mary Poppins was a massive hit, and Andrews went on to win the Golden Globe for the role.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This lovely honour is a wonderful memento of a very happy time. My thanks to a man who made a wonderful movie, and who made all this possible in the first place\u2026 Mr Jack Warner,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd gasped and then burst into laughter at the playful jab.<\/p>\n<p>Warner himself wiped away tears as he laughed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/aec7c534-a9d9-44b9-b5f4-edc3cd95ff3d.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>My Fair Lady went on to win the Oscar for Best Picture, while Andrews won for Best Actress. (Bettmann Archive)<\/p>\n<p>My Fair Lady went on to win the Oscar for Best Picture, while Andrews won for Best Actress.<\/p>\n<p>Though My Fair Lady was nominated for 12 Oscars, Hepburn did not get a nod.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actress Julie Andrews landed one of the most cutting burns of award show history on February 8, 1965.The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-465291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}