Posted on 09/18/2016 2:46:02 PM PDT by Cecily
The Sound of Music's Charmian Carr has died.
The 73-year-old actress was best known for playing Liesl alongside Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in the iconic movie.
Carr died on Saturday of complications from a rare form of dementia, according to a message on her official website.
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“I was 12 and would have died to be one of the kids in the movie.”
I just love you for saying that!
If you look at the foot in the air, you can see an elastic wrap on her ankle. She fell off one of the seats and sprained it. She was one of my early screen loves She had a natural beauty that didn’t need much to add to it.
We were visiting our aunt in Newburyport and saw SOM .
As we came out into the lobby people were asking everyone
Their opinion of the movie.I knew we had seen a pretty darn
Good movie.Always wondered where it debuted.
That wasn’t him singing. He was dubbed.
Andrews should have won. She did not because she had won the previous year for poppins.
If I remember correctly, Julie Andrews won for Mary Poppins because she got snubbed for recreating her role in My Fair Lady movie. There were those who didn’t like the choice of Audrey Hepburn, who didn’t sing her own songs in MFL and thought that Julie Andrews got screwed. So it was said that she was awarded the Oscar as consolation for that.
But he still had to ACT the sequence.
According to Audrey Hepburn's biography, she learned the songs and expected to sing them in the movie, but the producers decided to use Marni Nixon's voice.
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