Charmian Carr, the actress who played ‘Liesl’ from the Sound of Music, has died of complications from a rare form of dementia at the age of 73.
According to a note on the star’s official web site, “My name is Steve Hughes, and my Company has been managing Charmian Carr’s website for many, many years. Me and my family are so sad to have to post this message and will miss her dearly… We had the gracious opportunity to stay at Charmian Carr’s house several times while we worked on different projects for her. And we traveled to New York with her on another occasion. She was such a nice, cheerful person. We always LOVED, The Sound of Music, and still do.”
Carr was 21 when she played her best known role as the eldest Von Trapp daughter, Liesl, in the academy award winning movie, “The Sound of Music.”
Her most famous song from the film was “I Am Sixteen Going on Seventeen.”