Editing Blake Edwards (section)

==Personal life==
=== Marriages ===

Edwards married his first wife, actress Patricia Walker, in 1953; they divorced in 1967. Edwards and Walker had two children, actress [[Jennifer Edwards]] and actor-writer-director Geoffrey Edwards.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/the-real-life-trophy-wife/W2NII24NAB6KFTWX24OO42XBSM/|website=NZHerald|date=January 18, 2014|first=Emma|last=Clifton|title=The real-life Trophy Wife|access-date=December 10, 2020}}</ref> Walker appeared in the comedy ''[[All Ashore]]'' (1953), for which Edwards was one of the screenwriters. Edwards also named one of his film production companies, Patricia Productions, Incorporated, after her.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Los Angeles Evening Citizen News from Hollywood, California on November 28, 1964 |url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/684665977/|access-date=2021-06-29|website=Newspapers.com|date=November 28, 1964 |language=en}}</ref>

Edwards's second marriage, from 1969 until his death in 2010, was to [[Julie Andrews]]. They were married for 41 years. He was the stepfather to [[Emma Walton Hamilton|Emma]], from Andrews's previous marriage. In the 1970s, Edwards and Andrews adopted two Vietnamese daughters; Amy Leigh (later known as Amelia) in 1974 and Joanna Lynne in 1975.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-05-02|title=The Pristine Princess – Adoption, Julie Andrews : People.com|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20067520,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100502235751/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20067520,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-05-02|access-date=2021-02-23}}</ref>

=== Health ===

Edwards described his struggle for 15 years with the illness [[myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome]] (ME/CFS) in the documentary ''[[I Remember Me]]'' (2000).<ref>{{Cite news | last = Thomas | first = Kevin | title = Tarr's 'Harmonies' Is Involving Puzzle | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | date = May 30, 2002 | url = http://articles.latimes.com/2002/may/30/news/wk-screen30/3 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120710070248/http://articles.latimes.com/2002/may/30/news/wk-screen30/3 | url-status = dead | archive-date = July 10, 2012 | access-date = March 6, 2010}}</ref>