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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Yes, I do. My mom and dad took all of us kids (7) and grandmom to see SOM and The Music Man. It must have cost him a big portion of his salary.
Angela Cartwight, “Penny” of the 1960s sci-fi comedy series Lost In Space was in that film also.
She was in Make Room for Daddy before that. When TSOM came out I had never heard of Angela Cartwright, but all my friends seemed to already know who she was. It was only years later, like some time in the 80s, that I learned she’d been on TV before Lost in Space. That explained why some of my friends had already heard of her.
Yes, and what a beautiful lady she was......
For most of my 50+ years I thought it would probably be too corny for me to like, it being a musical and all. However, just a year ago I saw it for the first time and actually liked it very much. Very sweet, refreshing and wholesome.
The Sound of Music drew good box office receipts at the theaters for several years. Attendance never went down, but the studio decided to stop showing it. Kind of like the way Ted Williams in baseball finished his long career with a home run.
I know all the lyrics too. On my bucket list is to go to the Hollywood Bowl showing of it each summer when the orchestra plays while the movie is shown, and everyone sings along to all of the songs. Maybe next year.
“Somewhere in my youth or childhood...” Now you finish it...
As beautiful as she was, I think I could have been dying of tuberculosis and had no trouble working up the chemistry!
“...I must have done something goooooooood.”
I love that song. I’m kinda tearing up at it right now, because those lyrics just get me in the feels. Every. Damn. Time. :)
God Bless Rogers and Hammerstein!
She didn’t look well in recent years. She was beautiful and dazzling in TSOM. RIP.
You must have done something good.
My memories of TSOM and similar movies like Mary Poppins were my classmates (around 3rd or 4th grade) singing the songs...A Spoonful Of Sugar, Edelweiss or Supercalifragelisticespy aladosious...or however it was spelled...LOL!
It's almost as if she was in her 70s and sick.
My favorite movie. Someone usually has it on TV around Christmas and I have made my children watch it many times. Everytime I go hiking in Colorado I start singing Climb Every Mountain.
I believe she was interviewed last year on the 50th anniversary of the film alongside Julie Andrews, who is about a decade older (and looks fantastic), and Miss Carr looked noticeably frail and ill.
My story is very similar to yours. I rented it about a year ago and finally saw it for the first time. Now I fully understand its timeless qualities. What a beautiful story with a happy ending.
Yes, I knew she was earlier in Make Room for Daddy. I didn’t watch that show very much, though. Had a big crush on her as an 11-year-old boy, in Lost In Space, as did, I learned for the first time in a televised interview with Billy Mumy (via YouTube)(Will Robinson in the LIS series), that he did too. In fact, he said he fell in love with her at first sight. The two eventually started dating.
Ms. Carr was very ill last year, as indicated by her death this year. Julie Andrews (80) has a variety of health issues that don’t seem to have slowed her down too much, bless her heart. On the other hand, she has had Stuff done to her face.
I loved her in “The Princess Diaries,” especially her romance with Hector Elizondo (who has also had Stuff done to his face since then).
“In both cases the movies played at the downtown theaters for quite a while before they were released to the suburban theaters.”
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That was commonly done in those days.
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Awww, this makes me sad. She was beautiful and enchanting to watch. Prayers for comfort for her loved ones.
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