There isn’t a single thing I can add about having a crush on Liesl in The Sound Of Music that hasn’t already been uttered by countless generations of guys ever since the movie debuted in 1965!
But for the record: I saw Sound Of Music. I set eyes on the oldest daughter Liesl, played by Charmian Carr. Developed Crush. Wheee!
In fact, out of all the wonderful songs featured in the Rodgers & Hammerstein soundtrack, my favorite just has to be “Edelweiss”, simply because I always waited for that scene where she sang it along with her father, playing his guitar.
Growing up I would hear “The Sound Of Music” and “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” regularly sung on TV variety shows, regarded as the braodway classics they are, and in elementary schhol, we sang songs like “Do Me Ri” and “My Favorite Things” during assemblies, but until I saw The Sound Of Music (and fell in love with Liesl), I never noticed Edelweiss!
When The Sound of Music got the “Special Edition” treatment on DVD back in 2000, there was a terrific addition for us Liesl fans! Included in the bonus section was a little-seen documentary short called Salzburg Sight and Sound, which was basically a 36 minute little featurette they shot during the taping of The Sound Of Music of Charmian Carr wandering around the beautiful city of Salzburg!
She narrates the short, and besides taking in the beautiful scenery, we get glipses of the cast behind the scenes as the work on the moive, we even get to see Charmian getting lesons with her vocal coach! Ah, what a great bonus!
Life after Sound of Music, Charmian Carr became an interior designer for upper-class home-owners, ans she said that one of her clients was Michael Jackson! In fact, she said that he hired her to do his house, simply because he loved her so much as Liesl!
Well, If I had
1. MONEY for an Interior Designer and
2. A HOUSE in WHICH to redesign,
I’D hire her, too!
