Christopher Plummer had gemengde gevoelens over The Sound of Music, maar sprak altijd met groot respect en genegenheid over tegenspeelster Julie Andrews. Ondanks zijn hekel aan de "suikerzoete" film, noemde hij de samenwerking met Andrews geweldig en de twee bleven na de opnames hun leven lang goede vrienden. Trouw +2
"But now we are the best of friends." — -- While Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer admitted to having crushes on each other while filming “The Sound of Music,” they say they were never more than friends.
Julie Andrews said that Max Von Sydow was one of her favorite leading man "The unqualified front-runner, the most generous man I've ever met, with a light, lovely sense of humor." Julie and Max Sydow worked together again, 20 years later, in Duet For One.
Julie Andrews was 30 and Christopher Plummer was 36 when The Sound of Music came out. How old do you think their characters were? If you mean the characters they were based on, she was 22 and was 47 when they married.
In an interview in 2010 Christopher Plummer revealed, that he did not like filming The Sound of Music very much. He told the Boston Globe that he was “a bit bored with the character” and that the movie was “not [his] cup of tea”. Later he also added that the story was “so awful and sentimental and gooey".
Honoring Christopher Plummer today and every day with his original vocal performance of “Edelweiss” from The Sound of Music – a chance to hear the song as he recorded it.
Maria and Georg married in 1927, 11 years before the family left Austria, not right before the Nazi takeover of Austria. Maria did not marry Georg von Trapp because she was in love with him. As she said in her autobiography Maria, she fell in love with the children at first sight, not their father.
Julie Andrews, who starred opposite Plummer in the classic 1965 film, called Plummer a "cherished friend" in a statement. "The world has lost a consummate actor today and I have lost a cherished friend," she said in a statement obtained by ABC News.
When she was shooting Mary Poppins, Andrews had cut her hair short so she could wear the wigs and she decided to keep her hair that way. However, when playing Maria in The Sound of Music, her hair appeared too dark on camera, so the team decided she needed more highlights to get the Austrian authenticity.
Christopher Plummer was married three times. His first marriage was to Tammy Grimes from 1956 to 1960, his second to Patricia Lewis from 1962 to 1967, and his third and longest marriage to Elaine Taylor from 1970 until his death in 2021.
Julie Andrews met Maria von Trapp in 1964 during the filming of The Sound of Music in Salzburg. Curious about how the film would portray her life and character, Maria von Trapp visited the set at Schloss Frohnburg. It was there that she met Julie Andrews, who played her on screen.
Paul Newman called her "the last of the really great dames". One day, when Hitchcock complained at one point of a spotlight "making a hell of a line over her head," she demurely put her hands on her hips and said. "That's my halo."
As of 2026, Julie Andrews' net worth is estimated at USD 30 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Her financial empire is built on her legendary career in films, theatre, music, and voice work. Andrews also has investments in real estate.
Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews arrived at the Rivoli Theater in New York for the 1965 premiere of The Sound of Music. Years later, Plummer reflected on his long-standing admiration for Andrews: “I'd fallen in love with her in My Fair Lady on Broadway, so I had a crush on her forever,” he admitted.
In 1942, amid their worldwide tours as the Trapp Family Singers (1938–1955), the von Trapp family purchased an enchanted farm in Stowe, Vermont, whose sweeping mountain vistas evoked their beloved Austria. In the summer of 1950, they began welcoming guests to a rustic, 27-room family home/lodge.
Plummer, often referring to Andrews as “Ms. Wonderful,” admired her professionalism and charm, while Andrews found his wit and depth both captivating and inspiring.
47-year old Georg von Trapp and 22-year-old Maria Augusta Kutschera were married on November 26, 1927, more than a decade before they fled. Maria claimed she fell in love with the children at first sight, and she liked their father, but did not love him.
How old was Christopher Plummer when he played in The Sound of Music? At the start of filming in March 1964, Christopher Plummer was 34 years old - significantly younger than the 47-year-old Captain Georg von Trapp, the character he portrayed in the movie.
When Plummer asked about his memory working with Eleanor Parker, he revealed "I had a great crush on her, ".
Warner to give the role to Andrews but was eventually cast. She remembers Hepburn saying to her, “Julie, you should have done it, but I didn't have the guts to turn it down.” “We were friends from then on.” Julie Andrews recalled.
First, she married Georg Von Trapp in 1927 and they had 10 children together. After Georg's death, she married Hugh David Campbell in 1954 and had 7 daughters with him.
Rolf Gruber, or better known as Rolf, is the secondary antagonist of the 1959 musical The Sound of Music, and its 1965 film adaptation of the same name. He was an Austrian delivery boy who fell in love with Liesl Von Trapp until betraying her and her family to serve for Hans Zeller and the Nazi Party.
TIL The Sound of Music is not completely accurate to the history of the Von Trapp family. The marriage of Maria and Georg was for practical reasons, rather than actual love for one another. Maria wrote, "I really and truly was not in love," but later acknowledged that she enjoyed a happy marriage.