"Sound of Music" Cast to Reunite on Oprah's Show (After 45 years)

ABC News ^ | 09/27/2010

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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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The Kids have reunited once before with Julie Andrews (byt Christopher Plummer was not there )

[roses of sharon]

I will have to brake my “never watch Oprah” rule for this one!

[Leo Farnsworth]

Unfortunately the Von Trapp family sold their ranch here (MT) to Ted Turner - this was about 15 years ago.

Imagine fleeing the Nazis only to sell your property to a devout socialist.

My best to them, though!

[SeekAndFind]

Looking at the above pictures...

I have to say, Julie Andrews looks FANTASTIC for her age. She even looks as young as some of her “children”.

I wonder if she had anything medically cosmetic done...

If not, she is the epitome of aging gracefully.

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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

Plummer, in perhaps the best role where he had the opportunity to put his background as an "award-winning Shakespearean stage actor" to good use:

[Jemian]

Not me. I figure the segment will come out on youtube and I won’t have to suffer the oprah.

[Verginius Rufus]

According to The World Almanac, Christopher Plummer was born 12/13/27, so he's now 82. Can't rely on ABC even when it doesn't have anything to do with American politics.

Plummer is Canadian, like Joey Votto, but not as good a baseball player.

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Pictures of the Von Trapp Family Lodge in Vermont





The real Von Trapp Family

[rintense]

I adore Julie Andrews. What a tragedy that she can no longer sing. Her voice was truly amazing.

[IronJack]

I believe Christopher Plummer once referred to the movie as “The Sound of Misery.”

[Ann Archy]

I DID too....UNTIL she went TOPLESS or Naked in a movie that her husband Blake Edwards directed!! IDIOT....she had a great reputation and hasn’t had it since that fiasco.

[WebFocus]

RE: What a tragedy that she can no longer sing. Her voice was truly amazing.

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Well, she obviously can’t sing as well as when she was young, but believe me, SHE CAN STILL OUTSING A LOT OF YOUNG FOLKS OUT THERE even at her age and even after her vocal surgery.

On July through early August 2008, She hosted Julie Andrews’ The Gift of Music, a short tour of the United States where she sang various Rodgers and Hammerstein songs and symphonised her recently published book, Simeon’s Gift. These were her first public singing performances in a dozen years, due to her failed vocal cord surgery.

She was 72 then.

[Fair Paul]

I heard it was “The Sound of Mucus.”

[I Drive Too Fast]

She was topless in this movie - S.O.B.

A scathing send-up of Hollywood, S.O.B. (the letters stand for "Standard Operational Bs")

[yarddog]

I graduated in 1965. Our class song was “Climb Every Mountain”. I can still remember most of the words. I thought Liesl was hot.

[Kirkwood]

Plummer hates interviews. Wonder how much Oprah is paying for him to show up.

[Krankor]

I always liked Angela Cartwright, although #7 looks pretty darn good.

[Ann Archy]

Thanks.....utterly ruined her by this action, and God took her fine voice away.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

This is one of Plummer’s relatively few ‘straight’ hero roles, as opposed to lead character roles. These parts make actors popular, but are less interesting to portray. Von Trapp himself was a man of heroic virtue.