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While the actress who played Liesl (Charmian Carr) once admitted she had a crush on her on-screen father, Christopher Plummer, her movie brother Nicholas Hammond had fallen hopelessly in love...
Carr first revealed he r crush on Captain von Trapp in her 2000 autobiography, Forever Liesl: A Memoir of The Sound of Music. At the time, Plummer was married to his second wife.
He even developed a flirtatious-yet-platonic relationship with co-star Charmian Carr, who played his on-screen daughter Liesl.
Charmian Carr, who played Liesl, and was twenty-two at the time, wrote in her autobiography that she was attracted to the 35-year-old Christopher Plummer, who played her father. Plummer admitted that the feeling was mutual, but insists that it didn't get beyond mere flirtation.
Charmian Carr admitted to crushing on Plummer and his dreamy fake British accent (Plummer is Canadian). And Carr wasn't 16 going on 17 — she was 21.
Charmian Carr, known for her role as Liesl, the eldest Von Trapp daughter, in 1965's The Sound of Music, died Saturday at age 73, her representative said. She died from a complication of a rare form of dementia, said Steve Hughes, a representative who managed Carr's website, in a statement.
Charmian, who was 21 when she played a 16-going-on-17-year-old, says she had a bit of a crush on Christopher. "He was so perfect, and he spoke with this perfect British accent," she says. During filming, Charmian stayed in the same hotel as Christopher.