RIP Christopher Plummer

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/05/entertainment/christopher-plummer/index.html

 

Died from a head injury due to a fall.

lol...he hated the Sound of Music but it made him a household name.  I love that movie.  In spite of his feelings he seemed perfect in that role.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/christopher-plummer-dead/2021/02/05/2e6d8408-67dd-11eb-886d-5264d4ceb46d_story.html

 

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For all his stage renown — he earned seven Tony nominations — it was his casting in “The Sound of Music” that launched him to stardom. He had taken the role, he later said, because he wanted to try his hand at a musical.

 

“I thought that was gonna be it — it’s a little film that might enjoy a certain success,” he told London’s Daily Telegraph. “And then it would go away and I would know how to sing.”

The 1965 Hollywood adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical co-starred Julie Andrews as the ingenue governess of the seven warbling von Trapp children. Mr. Plummer played the brood’s stern and widowed father, a retired Austrian naval officer named Captain Georg von Trapp.

 

The film won five Academy Awards, including best picture, and remains one of the most popular movies ever made, a television evergreen in nearly every corner of the world. To Mr. Plummer, it was “so awful, and sentimental and gooey,” and he winced every time he recalled crooning “Edelweiss” as a single tear ran down his cheek.

 

His disdain for the movie — which he variously liked to call “S&M” or “The Sound of Mucus” — was widely shared by critics for its banality amid the Nazi rise. For Mr. Plummer, the film paved the way for a screen stature that would support a lavish lifestyle and a freedom to take stage roles he wanted.