The Princess Diaries | 2001

If Anne Hathaway provided the film’s beating heart, Dame Julie Andrews provided its majestic soul. The Princess Diaries marked a massive cinematic return for Andrews, who had taken a hiatus from major live-action film roles following a tragic throat surgery in 1997 that damaged her iconic singing voice.

In the summer of 2001, director Garry Marshall delivered a modern fairy tale that would define a generation of youth cinema. The Princess Diaries , based on Meg Cabot’s bestselling young adult novel, introduced audiences to Mia Thermopolis—a socially awkward, frizzy-haired San Francisco teenager who discovers she is the sole heir to the throne of a fictional European principality called Genovia. the princess diaries 2001