{"id":43990,"date":"2016-09-20T08:32:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T23:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=43990"},"modified":"2016-09-21T18:55:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T09:25:08","slug":"vale-charmian-carr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2016\/09\/20\/vale-charmian-carr\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale – Charmian Carr"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sound of Music<\/em> star Charmian Carr, who played Liesel in the 1965 film musical<\/a>, has passed away.<\/p>\n

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Charmian Carr (Far right) with Julie Andrews (Center) and the rest of her on-screen siblings in 1965’s The Sound Of Music.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ms Carr’s first screen role – her first acting role of any significance – was in Robert Wise’s production of The Sound Of Music<\/em>, which would star Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Ms Carr, born Charmian Farnon before Wise requested a change of name for her credit, plucked the role of the Von Trapp family’s eldest sibling, daughter Liesel, whose on-screen romance with Rolf, himself a member of the Nazi Youth, was both hopelessly romantic and utterly tragic.<\/p>\n

Following the success of Sound of Music, Ms Carr appeared in a 1-hour television special alongside Psycho<\/em> star Anthony Perkins entitled Evening Primrose<\/em>, before leaving the show-business life. Often reuniting with her former co-stars for documentaries, television specials and anniversaries, Ms Carr would write two books before succumbing to the effects of dementia on September 17th.<\/p>\n

Charmian Carr was 73.<\/p>\n

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