Posted on 09/27/2010 4:55:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The movie cast of "The Sound of Music" are reuniting for the first time in 45 years, with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer joining their seven fictional children in an October appearance on Oprah Winfrey's TV talk show, producers said on Monday.
Andrews, Plummer, Charmian Carr (Liesl), and the actors who played the six other von Trapp family children will talk about making the 1965 Oscar-winning movie and their lives since it went on to become one of the most popular movie musicals ever.
The reunion will be broadcast on October 29 on "The Oprah Winfrey Show", Winfrey's Harpo productions said.
Some of the real von Trapp children, who travel the world performing songs made famous by the movie, will also appear and pay tribute to the film on the TV show.
"The Sound of Music" won five Oscars, including best picture, and its soundtrack featuring hits like "My Favorite Things" and "Edelweiss" is one of the best-selling soundtracks of all time, having gone Platinum 12 times.
The movie is broadcast regularly on television and has won new fans in sing-along versions shown around the world.
Carr and some of the other, former child actors have come together in the past, but without stars Andrews, 74, who played the mischievous nun turned governess Maria, and Plummer, now 81, the stern Captain von Trapp who leads his family out of Austria just before World War Two.
Plummer, an award-winning Shakespearean stage actor, has sought in the past to distance himself from the movie and declined to attend a cast reunion for 40th anniversary of the DVD release in 2005.
But the actor told Reuters in a February interview he had made peace with his most famous role, despite being type cast as an uptight leading man
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Charmian Carr was really cute, had a nice voice.
Well she was cute, had a nice voice and could also dance. Let her take acting lessons. She should have been more of a star.
That’s right, Ann: we have a hard-hearted God who never forgives anything, particularly not boobs! < /s>
Number 6!!!
He also referred to it as “The Sound of Mucus” because he thought it was too saccharine. His performance in the movie was snotty and sarcastic. I thought he was miscast.
von trapp was an austrian u-boat commander in ww1.
My sentiments, exactly. The days of inviting Oprah into my home (via TV) are long gone.
‘von trapp was an austrian u-boat commander in ww1.’
As was his duty.
Oprah is evil.
Yep - something actually worth watching on Oprah!
hear hear and talk about a war that should have never been
Britian’s zany Bonzo Dog Band butchers the theme song, 1968. From the comedy/children’s show Do Not Adjust Your Set
which featured future Monty Python members Eric Idle,
Terry Jones (not the preacher), Michael Palin (no relation to...) and some animations by Terry Gilliam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuklqJD3v0c
Plumber is too good an actor to be typecast.
(seriously quoting shakespear in Klingon!)
I remember reading how the real children thought the movie went over the top in portraying the father so stern but that is the movies.
If anyone was typecast it was julie andrews. She seemed to be playing almost the same part in almost all her movies. The exception was movies she did to try and break away from the Mary Poppins goody goody image.
even this is not enough to break the no-oprah rule. starve the beast.
I thought Liesl was hot.
That’s because she was! (Liesel :-)
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