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re: Durbin? Wouldn't she be like 50+ in 1956 and...

Posted by:	PlayWiz 05:28 pm EDT 05/07/15
In reply to:	Durbin? Wouldn't she be like 50+ in 1956 and... - jimvar1 01:34 pm EDT 05/07/15

Actually Doris Day would have been a fine Maria Von Trapp; her star magnetism, still fresh-scrubbed look and proven singing talent might worked. But Julie Andrews was very recent to the film world, though people had been hearing about her in the news losing out to Audrey Hepburn for "My Fair Lady". Those kids in "Sound of Music" have for the most part American accents. Julie Andrews is so good and charismatic that her British accent doesn't really feel out of place in Austria.

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The SOM film accents

Posted by:	jimvar1 03:25 am EDT 05/08/15
In reply to:	re: Durbin? Wouldn't she be like 50+ in 1956 and... - PlayWiz 05:28 pm EDT 05/07/15

I don't think the film kids had accents that particularly stood out as "American." As a matter of fact, w/ Andrews and Richard Haydn being the only Brits in the cast (and Andrews already having spent some 10 years in the USA), Plummer being Canadian, and everyone else Yank, Robert Wise and his team went to great effort to achieve a "mid-Atlantic" accent for the film. And I think they succeeded in that regard. Compare Carrie Underwood's accent to the American actors in the film, and you will get a heavier "American" accent than what came out in the film.

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