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Mike Cidoni Lennox | Associated Press

AFI honors Julie Andrews for a lifetime of filmmaking

Actor Julie Andrews accepts the 48th AFI Life Achievement Award during a Los Angeles gala earlier this month. (AP)

LOS ANGELES — Julie Andrews was honored by the American Film Institute last week for a Hollywood career that couldn’t have started more supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-ly — with an Oscar-winning performance in a film that would become an instant classic: “Mary Poppins.”

Before the AFI Life Achievement ceremony, which airs at 7 p.m. Thursday night on TNT, the 86-year-old Andrews recalled landing her first major movie gig.

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