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Strangely enough, I was rewatching Sound of Music that day. It's still sad and again, way too young.
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I like The Sound of Music, but whenever I hear of Heather Menzies, I think of Logan's Run. That's the show that announced her existence to me.
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Dec 27, 2017 - 7:04 PM
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Howard L
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from today's (print) NY Times--
Heather Menzies-Urich, ‘Sound of Music’ Actress, Dies at 68
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Heather Menzies-Urich, third from the right, with the rest of the von Trapp family from “The Sound of Music.” Credit 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
Heather Menzies-Urich, an actress best known for playing one of the singing von Trapp children in the hit 1965 film “The Sound of Music,” died on Sunday in Frankford, Ontario. She was 68.
Her son, the actor Ryan Urich, told Variety that she died not long after learning she had brain cancer.
Ms. Menzies-Urich — who was known as Heather Menzies throughout her acting career — played Louisa von Trapp, the third-oldest of the seven singing von Trapp children, in “The Sound of Music,” one of the most successful movies on the 1960s. Adapted from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway musical, it starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer and won five Academy Awards, including best picture.
“Heather was part of ‘the family.’ There is really no other way to describe the members of the cast of the movie of ‘The Sound of Music,’ ” Ted Chapin, president and chief creative officer of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, said in a statement.
Charmian Carr, who portrayed the eldest von Trapp daughter, Liesl, in the movie, died last year.
Heather Menzies was born in Toronto on Dec. 3, 1949. She moved to the United States with her family when she was 11 and attended Hollywood High School. “The Sound of Music” was her first film.
She went on to appear in “Hawaii” (1966), alongside her “Sound of Music” co-star Ms. Andrews, as well as “Piranha” (1978), “Endangered Species” (1982) and other movies. On television, she was a regular on the 1977-78 science-fiction series “Logan’s Run” and also seen on “Dragnet,” “Bonanza,” “Marcus Welby, M.D.” and other shows, including “Vegas,” which starred her husband, Robert Urich.
Ms. Menzies-Urich married Mr. Urich in 1975. He died of cancer in 2002. After his death, Ms. Menzies-Urich established the Robert Urich Foundation to raise funds for cancer research.
In addition to her son Ryan, she is survived by two daughters, Allison and Emily, several grandchildren and a great-grandchild, Variety reported.
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Dec 29, 2017 - 5:31 PM
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filmusicnow
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from today's (print) NY Times--
Heather Menzies-Urich, ‘Sound of Music’ Actress, Dies at 68
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Heather Menzies-Urich, third from the right, with the rest of the von Trapp family from “The Sound of Music.” Credit 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
Heather Menzies-Urich, an actress best known for playing one of the singing von Trapp children in the hit 1965 film “The Sound of Music,” died on Sunday in Frankford, Ontario. She was 68.
Her son, the actor Ryan Urich, told Variety that she died not long after learning she had brain cancer.
Ms. Menzies-Urich — who was known as Heather Menzies throughout her acting career — played Louisa von Trapp, the third-oldest of the seven singing von Trapp children, in “The Sound of Music,” one of the most successful movies on the 1960s. Adapted from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway musical, it starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer and won five Academy Awards, including best picture.
“Heather was part of ‘the family.’ There is really no other way to describe the members of the cast of the movie of ‘The Sound of Music,’ ” Ted Chapin, president and chief creative officer of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, said in a statement.
Charmian Carr, who portrayed the eldest von Trapp daughter, Liesl, in the movie, died last year.
Heather Menzies was born in Toronto on Dec. 3, 1949. She moved to the United States with her family when she was 11 and attended Hollywood High School. “The Sound of Music” was her first film.
She went on to appear in “Hawaii” (1966), alongside her “Sound of Music” co-star Ms. Andrews, as well as “Piranha” (1978), “Endangered Species” (1982) and other movies. On television, she was a regular on the 1977-78 science-fiction series “Logan’s Run” and also seen on “Dragnet,” “Bonanza,” “Marcus Welby, M.D.” and other shows, including “Vegas,” which starred her husband, Robert Urich.
Ms. Menzies-Urich married Mr. Urich in 1975. He died of cancer in 2002. After his death, Ms. Menzies-Urich established the Robert Urich Foundation to raise funds for cancer research.
In addition to her son Ryan, she is survived by two daughters, Allison and Emily, several grandchildren and a great-grandchild, Variety reported.
Eerily ironic that she would too die of cancer. R.I.P. Heather Menzies.
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Dec 30, 2017 - 2:26 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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Heather Menzies made her feature film debut playing "Louisa," one of the Von Trapp children in 1965's THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
At the beginning of filming, Menzies was about three inches taller than Nicholas Hammond ("Friedrich"). He had to wear heel lifts to make him look taller. By the end of the shoot, Hammond had grown six inches (5'3" to 5'9"). He often filmed in no shoes, and Charmian Carr had to stand on a box to make her taller. All of the Von Trapp children grew a lot during filming, so heel lifts and various camera tricks were used to keep their heights steady.
In one scene, the children become so excited when their father, the Baron, returns that they fall out of a rowboat in the lake. Kym Karath ("Gretl") couldn't swim, so the original plan was to get Julie Andrews to catch her when the boat tipped up and they all fell in the water. However, during the second take, the boat toppled over so that Andrews fell to one side and Karath fell to the other. Heather Menzies had to save Karath instead. Because Karath had swallowed too much water after falling out of the rowboat, she threw up on Menzies. Andrews stated later she felt guilty about this incident for years.
Robert Wise directed the film. The most recent release of the RCA soundtrack for the film was its 50th Anniversary Edition in 2015.
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Dec 30, 2017 - 2:18 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Heather Menzies had her only recurring role in a television series with the 1977 sci-fi show "Logan's Run", a spin-off from the 1976 MGM feature film of the same name. The series starred Gregory Harrison as title character "Logan 5," and Menzies as "Jessica 6."
The series maintained the basic premise and visual style of the film in that Logan and Jessica had escaped from the "City of Domes" so that they would not have to die once they reached the age of 30. However, the series differed from the plot of the movie in various ways, and depicted Logan and Jessica on the run in each episode in various locations on future Earth as they search for the mythical place known as "Sanctuary." Logan and Jessica were also assisted in each episode by an android called "Rem" (Donald Moffat) who did not appear in the film version.
In a 2017 interview, Heather Menzies stated that Dirk Benedict and her SOUND OF MUSIC co-star Nicholas Hammond also auditioned for the role of Logan 5. When asked for her opinion on the series' quick demise, she replied: " I think they needed to spend more money on the visuals. STAR WARS came out around that time and we couldn’t really compete with that."
"Logan's Run" debuted on CBS at 9 PM on Friday, 16 September 1977. It aired opposite Friday Night Movies on both ABC and NBC, where it faltered in the ratings. After just three episodes had aired, the show was moved to Monday nights at 8 PM, opposite "The San Pedro Beach Bums" on ABC, and "Little House on the Prairie" on NBC, which was the #7 rated series that season. That spelled the end of the series, which was removed from the schedule so quickly that the last 3 of its 14 produced episodes never aired on the West Coast. (They were shown years later on Turner Network Television.)
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