“Yet surely, Miss Andrews, you have some vices? “Oh, God!” she whoops. “I’m great at Anglo-Saxon four-letter words.” And she launches into a story about the last day on the “Mary Poppins” shoot, when she was hanging about, high up in the soundstage on a wire, when all of a sudden, she felt herself drop. “I hit the stage, like you don’t believe—I could have broken my leg!—and I did let fly with some Anglo-Saxon words that I don’t think the Disney studio had heard before or since.” The F word, for one. And this reporter actually heard her utter the S word. Mary Poppins would wash her mouth out with soap.
Julie Andrews, Newsweek