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Christopher Plummer
Julie Andrews
Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer’s tortured relationship with ‘The Sound of Music’
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Plummer became a movie star at age 36 playing Captain Von Trapp in “The Sound of Music.” But, as he recounts in his deliciously gossipy memoir “In Spite of Myself,” making it was a nightmare, the beauty of the Alps notwithstanding.A prominent Shakespearean stage actor at the time, Plummer had never sung before when he was offered the role.
He took it, he confessed, because he secretly wanted to turn “Cyrano de Bergerac” into a Broadway musical, and thought “The Sound of Music” would be good practice.
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