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Aug 24, 2018 · Film Dubber Bill Lee is credited with lending his voice to movies such as Sound of Music, South Pacific, Peter Pan, 101 Dalmatians and The Jungle Book. Bill Lee: 13 film credits — Bill Lee sang for some of Hollywood’s actors including Christopher Plummer in Sound of Music (1965) and John Kerr in South Pacific (1958). He also had a career ...
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Dec 2, 2023 · While the veteran actor sang the songs on camera, his vocals were later dubbed over by well-known playback singer Bill Lee for the 1965 film and corresponding soundtrack.
- Julie Andrews Was Not Much Like The Real Maria
- The Family Didn't "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" to Freedom
- Christopher Plummer Requested A Body Double For Gretl
- And Friedrich Had A Serious Growth Spurt
- Louisa Modeled For Playboy
- Christopher Plummer Didn't Do His Own Singing
- "Edelweiss" Is Not A Real Austrian Folk Song
- Mother Superior's Vocals Were Dubbed Too
- Marni Nixon Finally Showed Her Face in The Film
- Mary Poppins Hadn't Come Out Yet — So Julie Andrews Didn't Have Her Oscar
The Sound of Music is based on the real-life tale of Maria von Trapp and her family, but the musical took a lot of liberties with their story. Maria and Georg von Trapp were married in 1927 — when Maria was 22 and Georg was 47. Maria came to the von Trapp family home not as a governess, but as a tudor to one of the children. She wasn't as sweet as ...
Although the movie is correct in depicting the family leaving Austria and the fact that they disagreed with the Nazis, the details are all wrong. Georg did refuse to fly the Nazi flag at their home, but the family didn't actually climb a mountain to flee the Nazis like the end of The Sound of Music shows. The truth was a lot less visually entertain...
And speaking of climbing that mountain, the adorable actress who played Gretl, Kym Karath, had gained weight while filming the movie. On the movie's DVD extras, it was revealed that Plummer asked for a body double when he had to hold Gretl for the final scene due to her weight. Harsh, Capt. von Trapp. Harsh.
But Gretl wasn't the only child in the cast who experienced body changes. Nicholas Hammond, who played Friedrich, grew six inches in six months. This caused a problem while filming, particularly for the eldest daughter Liesl as actress Charmian Carr had to stand on apple boxesto make up for the height difference.
Although not strictly a The Sound of Music factoid, the actress who played Louisa, Heather Menzies-Urich, posed for Playboy in 1973. Yes, it was eight years after the film, but the fact is still pretty disconcerting.
Plummer's voice was dubbed for his role of Capt. Georg von Trapp by Bill Lee. Lee was the singing voice of Lt. Joe Cable in another Rogers and Hammerstein musical movie, South Pacific, and Yogi Bear in "Ash Can Parade." Plummer told NPR that his voice was used for the beginning and endings of the song, but Lee was the Capt.'s main voice in the clas...
"Edelweiss" has been often mistaken by Americans to be a real Austrian folk song— even at the White House during a state dinner for the Austrain president. But it was a creation of Rogers and Hammerstein — and it was actually the last song ever written by Oscar Hammerstein II, who died of stomach cancer in 1960.
Plummer wasn't the only actor who needed some singing help. Peggy Wood, who played Maria's mentor Mother Abbess, had her vocals dubbed by Margery McKay. (And unfortunately, Audra McDonald wasn't availablefor the role in 1965.)
Marni Nixon is famous fordubbing the singing vocals of Deborah Kerr in The King and I, Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady (a role that Julie Andrews had originated), and Natalie Wood in West Side Story. She got her only onscreen role as Sister Sophia in The Sound of Music.
Andrews entertained the kids on set by singing "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from Mary Poppins, which hadn't been released yet. So Andrews was not the singing film superstar she would soon be after winning the Oscar for Best Actress for Mary Poppins (Hepburn in My Fair Lady hadn't even been nominated — burn) in 1965 while filming The Sound o...
- Maria von Trapp sold the rights to her life story for a song. After her book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers was published in 1949, there was interest from various quarters in buying the film rights.
- 20th Century-Fox almost didn’t make 'The Sound of Music' When the Broadway show opened in 1959 and proved to be such a smash hit, the studio, which had already produced four R&H adaptations, bought film rights for $1.25 million.
- The original director had a different vision for the movie. William Wyler, a Swiss-German Jew who had won three Best Director Oscars, was originally assigned to direct the film.
- Other actors were considered for the roles of Maria and Captain von Trapp. Doris Day was seriously considered for the role of Maria, along with Leslie Caron, Anne Bancroft and even Grace Kelly.
Christopher Plummer's vocals were dubbed over by singer Bill Lee in the original 1965 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. The actors playing members of the Von Trapp family in a promotional...
Dec 19, 2023 · Despite his acting chops, his singing ended up being dubbed in the final version with singer Bill Lee's voice, NPR reported.
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