Did Christopher Plummer do the singing in the sound of music?
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER: Of course not. A number of listeners wrote in to point out that Christopher Plummer doesn’t really sing in “The Sound of Music” – although, of course, he’d played Captain Von Trapp. And in a portion of the interview we didn’t have time to air, Christopher Plummer told us the story.Click to see…
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER: Of course not. A number of listeners wrote in to point out that Christopher Plummer doesn’t really sing in “The Sound of Music” – although, of course, he’d played Captain Von Trapp. And in a portion of the interview we didn’t have time to air, Christopher Plummer told us the story.Click to see full answer. Thereof, who did the singing in the sound of music?Christopher Plummer’s singing was dubbed by Bill Lee of the singing group The Mellomen. Two years before the musical made its Broadway debut, Paramount Pictures bought the rights to the Von Trapp Singers story, intending to cast Audrey Hepburn as Maria.Beside above, how old was Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music? The Robert Wise-directed film, which also starred Julie Andrews, went on to become an iconic piece of work. At the time of release,Plummer was 36-years-old. Moreover, did the actors sing in Sound of Music? Charmian Carr refuted the claim that the voices of the child actors were dubbed in the film and on the soundtrack. Carr contended that all of the children who are in the film sing on the track, but four other children were added to most of the songs to give them a fuller sound, they did not replace them as singers.Did they lip sync in The Sound of Music?The cast was given authentic Austrian schnapps by a farmer after a long day of shooting. (Christopher Plummer may have been drinking while filming parts of the movie.) It’s a bit of a legend that Andrews was struggling to play guitar and lip-sync at the same time, as she had never played the instrument before.
