Charmian Carr with Nicholas Hammond, who played Friedrich von Trapp in the film, at the launch of a 40th anniversary special edition DVD in New York in 2005 Paul Hawthorne/Getty ImagesCharmian Carr, the actress who played the eldest von Trapp daughter in The Sound of Music, has died aged 73. She was 21 when she played Liesl opposite Julie Andrews in the 1965 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, singing the song I am 16 going on 17. “It’s always sad when a member of the family passes away — and in the case of the ‘family’ of the movie The Sound of Music, it’s especially sad when it is the first of the group to go,” said Ted Chapin, president of the Rodgers & Hammerstein organisation. Charmian Carr and Daniel Truhitte in a scene from The Sound of Music 20th Century Fox/REX/Shutterstock“Charmian Carr played the oldest…

Source: The Times September 18, 2016 23:37 UTC