Charmian Carr (born Charmian Farnon December 27, 1942) is best known for role as Liesl, the eldest Von Trapp daughter in The Sound of Music. December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... ... Julie Andrews as Maria, seeks guidance from the Mother Abbess, played by Peggy Wood, in this scene from the 1965 film version. ...
She is the second child of vaudeville actress, Rita Oehmen, and musician Michael Farnon. Soon after filming the Sound of Music, she married Jay Brent and had two daughters, Jennifer and Emily. The marriage lasted until 1991. She started an interior decorating company whose clients include Michael Jackson. Vaudeville was a style of multi-act theater which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ... Michael Jackson in his classic Beat It style outfit. ...
She has written two books, Forever Liesl and Letters to Liesl.
CharmianCarr, who captivated moviegoers as Liesl "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" von Trapp, shares her memories of making the movie that shaped her life and captures just why The Sound of Music means so much to so many.
Charmian recounts how she won the role with no acting experience, the near disaster as they filmed the dance in the gazebo, and her relationships--then and now--with her six celluloid siblings.
Carr was 21 at the time she was chosen to play the 16-year-old daughter of Baron von Trapp (Christopher Plummer), a wealthy widow who falls in love with a nun-cum-governess (Julie Andrews).
Charmian: The producer told me: "There was a nursing home in Scotland in a little town called Inverness and the head nurse was trying to think of things to do for the patients to help the afternoons go by more quickly and she had this idea of going to the store and renting Hollywood musicals.
Charmian: I don't watch it every single time depending on what kind of publicity things I have to do, but I always like to stay to watch the beginning because there's generations out there that have never seen this film on the big screen.
Charmian: In the beginning, they didn't really like the movie because it wasn't exactly true, but they do like the movie now because of all it's done for them with their lodge.
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