Christopher Plummer got a third act worth singing about

Monday, February 8, 2021

It's one of the great Hollywood ironies Christopher Plummer didn't like the film that made him a legend. He was an actor's actor and had cut his teeth doing Shakespeare. "The Sound of Music," he thought, was sentimental shlock. And he wasn't alone -- reviews at the time were famously terrible. Then, like a personal curse, it would go on to become a universally beloved classic. He'd played Henry V and Hamlet, and yet Capt. von Trapp, he said in 1982, followed him around "like an albatross."

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