A meeting with this priest changed Maria's life and belief. Maria joined the Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg to become a nun. It was decided that Maria should leave the convent for a year to go to the Trapp Villa to work as a governess for the captain's daughter who lay in bed with rheumatic fever.
After the first year, the children asked their father to do something to make their governess stay. They even suggested he should marry her. So, the children went to ask for themselves. Luckily, the problem only occurred after the helicopter had passed, so no footage of Andrews taking a pratfall made it on camera. Back in Hollywood, during one of the last scenes filmed, Andrews and Plummer were getting punchy.
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The Grammy-winning artist had to overcome several obstacles on his journey to become a music sensation and Super Bowl headliner. On the commentary of the 35th anniversary edition of the DVD, Plummer admitted that he was dead drunk during the music festival sequence.
He very quickly realised that it was so well crafted and so well done. Dame Andrews, in , was nothing like a dame. She had no box office traction. She had won acclaim as Eliza in My Fair Lady on Broadway in and yet was passed over for the film version. Jack Warner of Warner Brothers, insisted on hiring Audrey Hepburn, an audience draw who required all of her singing to be dubbed for the film version. Bloody Audrey has never spent a day in her life out of European ballrooms. Andrews, meanwhile, almost turned the role of Maria down, fearing that it was too similar to the work she had completed on the yet unreleased Mary Poppins.
Rain ensured that the tight six-week Salzburg filming schedule became an week-shoot. Austrian officials, indignant at the suggestion that they had been second World War collaborators, objected to the notion of flying swastikas in Salzburg.
They backed down when it was suggested the film would instead use archive footage of Hitler being welcomed to the city. Unaccustomed to Austrian cuisine, tiny Kym Karath subsisted on a diet of fried artichokes and bread throughout the shoot, ultimately making her too heavy for Christopher Plummer to carry her across the Alps, as planned. Nicholas Hammond , who played Friedrich, grew more than 15cm during production, creating a nightmare for the continuity department.
And then there was the business with the helicopter. They still balked at the idea of helicopter rentals, including the one that would sweep down on Andrews as she launched into the title song. Every time she twirled with her arms outstretched, the downdraft of the helicopter knocked her over.
After five painful, rainy takes, she signalled to the helicopter that enough was enough. Clint Eastwood is still not ready to ride off into the sunset, and the year-old's gift for expressing everything by doing almost nothing gets better with age. Please update your payment details to keep enjoying your Irish Times subscription. Tara Brady. Sound of Music Julie Andrews.
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