Overview

• The Sound of Music remains a landmark musical that won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and ranks among the highest-grossing films adjusted for inflation.
• Nicholas Hammond says becoming one of the world’s most recognizable children at 14 felt overwhelming, recalling schoolmates falling silent when he walked into the cafeteria.
• The former Friedrich von Trapp has sustained an on-screen career over the years, including a 1970s turn as TV’s Spider-Man.
• Charmian Carr, who played Liesl, left Hollywood for interior design and died in 2016 at 73, and Heather Menzies, who played Louisa, died in 2017 at 68 after a post-film acting career.
• The other young co-stars followed divergent paths, with Duane Chase moving into geology and wildlife work, Angela Cartwright continuing acting and photography, Debbie Turner becoming a Minnesota-based floral designer, and Kym Karath adding TV roles and later remarrying.