Darling Lili

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Darling Lili

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Directed by Blake Edwards
Produced by Blake Edwards
Written by William Peter Blatty
Blake Edwards
Starring Rock Hudson
Julie Andrews
Music by Henry Mancini
Cinematography Russell Harlan
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) 24 June, 1970
Running time 136 min.
Language English
Budget $25,000,000 USD
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Darling Lili is a 1970 comedy-romance film directed and written by Blake Edwards, starring the Academy Award winner Julie Andrews and the Academy Award nominee Rock Hudson.

Julie Andrews made a bid to change her squeaky clean image with this elaborately mounted World War I musical. Lili Smith (Andrews) is a popular British music hall singer who is regarded as a femme fatale and has been known to throw a bit of striptease into her act. However, Lili has a secret: she's actually a German spy, and the uncle she dotes upon is really Von Ruger (Jeremy Kemp), a fellow espionage agent and her contact for the Huns. In hopes of gaining valuable information, Lili begins using her feminine wiles on Maj. William Larrabee (Rock Hudson), a top American pilot. However, Lili soon discovers that she's falling in love with Larrabee and can't find the courage to betray him; Larrabee discovers Lili's secret, but he refuses to turn her in.

The film failed to win an Oscar but the song "Whistling Away the Dark" (music by Henry Mancini, words by Johnny Mercer; see the lyrics here) was nominated for an Academy Award for best song, of which Julie Andrews gave an unforgettable and moving performance at the beginning of the film.

Blake Edwards and Julie Andrews suffered continuous studio interference while making the film, and it was eventually edited by the studio largely without Edwards' input. Edwards and Andrews later satirised the problems they encountered making the film in "S.O.B.". A widescreen Directors Cut was later prepared for television in 1988, and this version was transferred to DVD.


  • Best Picture - Musical or Comedy (nom) - - 1970 Golden Globe
  • Best Actress - Musical or Comedy (win) - Julie Andrews - 1970 Golden Globe
  • Best Original Song (win) - Henry Mancini - 1970 Golden Globe
  • Best Original Song (win) - Johnny Mercer - 1970 Golden Globe
  • Best Costume Design (nom) - Donald Brooks - 1970 Academy
  • Best Costume Design (nom) - Jack Bear - 1970 Academy
  • Best Original Song Score (nom) - Johnny Mercer - 1970 Academy
  • Best Original Song Score (nom) - Henry Mancini - 1970 Academy
  • Best Song (nom) - Henry Mancini - 1970 Academy
  • Best Song (nom) - Johnny Mercer - 1970 Academy

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