Posted on 12/25/2017 9:35:39 AM PST by Morgana
Heather Menzies-Urich, who played Louisa Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, has died aged 68.
Her death was announced by the estate of the musical's creators, Rodgers & Hammerstein, on Monday.
She was diagnosed with brain cancer four weeks ago and died on Christmas Eve, news site TMZ quoted her son Ryan as saying.
"She was an actress, a ballerina and loved living her life to the fullest," he told TMZ.
Born Heather Menzies in Toronto, she was 15 when the musical film was released in 1965. It went on to win 10 Oscars, including best picture.
She played the mischievous third Von Trapp child Louisa, but her later television and film appearances did not hit the same heights.
At 23, she posed nude for Playboy magazine under the headline The Tender Trapp, a decision she said horrified her Presbyterian parents, who were originally from Scotland.
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R.I.P. The same cancer at the same age, 68 my Dad passed away from.
Crazy that she was only diagnosed 4 weeks prior... :(
must have been further along for them to help her.
Very sad.
My good friends sisters husband died that same way, faster even. He worked for UPS and one day he was acting all confused and they found he had brain cancer and 2 weeks later he was dead, 2 freakin’ weeks from living a normal life to dead. Cancer is an absolute horror. When I lived in New York city my neighbor was gone in 2 months from aggressive lung cancer. Here we are in 2017, all this technology, all this DNA, gene tech and they’re still using 100 year old treatments to treat it: poison and radiation. I really do not know why they can’t engineer antibodies to take it out but that would cut into the multi-billion dollar profits wouldn’t it.
trivia....she was born in Toronto Ontario Canada and her husband Robert Urich was born in Toronto Ohio.
She and her husband, the late actor Robert Urich, seemed like such down-to-earth people compared to the usual Hollywood jerks. He died of cancer too about 15 years ago.
RIP Heather
I really do not know why they can’t engineer antibodies to take it out but that would cut into the multi-billion dollar profits wouldn’t it.
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By George, you got it.
Pancreatic cancer also takes people very quickly. A neighbor we had years ago died in six weeks after her diagnosis and that was considered rather typical.
The saddest pancreatic cancer case I ever heard of was not about the actual victim but his wife:
In 1992, Gary and Amy Federici (she was 26 years old) married. They were, by all accounts, incredibly happy. A few weeks after the wedding, Gary discovered he had pancreatic cancer. Twelve weeks later he was dead.
Amy moved because she couldn’t bear to be in the house she shared with her late husband and started a new job working behind the scenes at MTV. A little more than a year after her husband’s death, she felt like she was beginning to live again.
On Dec. 7, 1993, Amy Federici was shot in the neck by the anti-white killer Colin Ferguson in the Long Island Rail Road Massacre. She died. She was literally a mile-and-a-half away from arriving at her home station. She was 27 years old.
The only silver lining was this: http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/25/nyregion/death-that-gave-life-others-parents-lirr-shooting-victim-donated-her-organs.html?pagewanted=all
I never knew Amy Federici. I never met her. But 24 years after her murder I still think of her every now and then for some reason.
Jimmy Carter's recovery from Cancer makes me wonder if he got access to the "cure"?
My brother in law died from brain cancer 2 years ago. Diagnosed on a Tuesday, Dead the following Thursday.
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Read years ago, probably easy enough to look up now, about the money that would be “lost” should a universal cure for cancer be found. Forgot the actual number. But it was a lot.
I did genealogical research in a small town in Kansas where my great-grandmother’s clan resided. My distant cousin lived there. Her husband had slipped on the ice and cracked a rib, helping someone who was stuck in the snow. Went in for X-rays and the doc said, “Your body is full of cancer. You have about 4 weeks.” “When would I have noticed any symptoms?” “In a couple of weeks.” He died in 4 weeks.
She must not have had access to the treatments that folks like Sen. McCain can get.
My God, absolutely terrifying. Life is precious as it gets, don’t waste a minute because any one of us could be gone tomorrow.
One thing I do agree with liberals on is the profit factor has to be taken out of healthcare, I don’t know how you would do that though. I’m self employed and Obamacare pretty much destroyed my health insurance, I can’t afford that insanity and if I ever got cancer or some other serious disease, I’m screwed. Without question the rich in this country get better treatment to the point of being ridiculous. I think of all the celebrities, the rich who were hard core drug addicts, alcoholics who needed liver transplants and got them seemingly in an instant. David Crosby, hard core crack addict gets one, Steve Jobs gets one even though he also had cancer, John Phillips of the Mama and Papas rock group in the 1960s, hardcore heroin and cocaine addict and an alcoholic, he once said he did heroin every 15 minutes for 2 years, he needed a liver transplant, gets one immediately then a month later they caught him at a bar doing shots “breaking in the new liver” as he put it. It makes me wonder how many kids have died because they were passed over for someone who had money.
I do the same, but one of my little "mental hobbies" is keeping alive the memory of Helen Hagnes Mintiks, the lovely violinist who was sexually assaulted and murdered while she was taking a rehearsal break at the Met back in 1980; at the time I was living in the NYC region, and her case was all over the news.
Likewise with the memory of Holly Maddux, another beautiful woman murdered by a scumbag; in Holly's case, the scumbag was Earth Day creator and promoter Ira Einhorn. Holly's life ended 9 September 1977, less than six years after every kid (except me) in my high school walked to school to observe the phony event her murderer invented.
You cant, part of the profit factor covers lawsuits, lawyers and insurance coverage for the workers and hospitals. Other part covers salaries for staff. Other part covers ever increasing regulation and compliance issues.
The places that manage all this better keep the costs lower than other places do.
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