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female character meme » day three: a female character you hated but grew to love - Baroness Elsa Schraeder
I am amusing, I suppose. I have the finest couturier in Vienna and a glittering circle of friends. I do give some rather gay parties. But take all that away and you have just wealthy, unattached little me, searching, just like you.
Eleanor Parker, The Sound of Music.
Happy birthday, The Sound of Music! (2 March 1965 - 2 March 2015)
It is what it is. It’s beautiful to look at, the kids are adorable, the songs are exquisite, and it represents an era in Hollywood that I’m very proud of. —Julie Andrews
As cynical as I always was about The Sound of Music, I do respect that it is a bit of relief from all the gunfire and car chases you see these days. It’s sort of wonderfully, old-fashionedly universal. It’s got the bad guys and the Alps; it’s got Julie and sentiment in bucketloads. Our director, dear old Bob Wise, did keep it from falling over the edge into a sea of treacle. Nice man. God, what a gent. There are very few of those around anymore in our business. —Christopher Plummer
TSOM will go on. It just seems to go from generation to generation with as much love and warmth as it originally did. —Charmian Carr
“Things have a way of working out right for me. I’ve had no real hard knocks, career-wise. I never did any starving in an attic. I come from a money-less background of schoolteachers and farmers in and around Cleveland. Doors opened, though. I maintain that if you work, believe in yourself and do what is right for you, without stepping all over others, the way opens up.” (Eleanor Parker)
♥ Rest in Peace Eleanor Jean Parker ♥
(June 26th, 1922 - December 9th, 2013)
"Eleanor Parker did few of the sensational, publicity-grabbing, gimmicky things of which many folkloric Hollywood careers have been made. Parker once said ‘I’ve prided myself on not dreaming up tales just to see my name in print.’ What she did was act in a great manner, and magnificently."
-Doug McCelland
"She is lovely, has a voice of splendid quality and a talent for tearing at the heartstrings that is as good as a ticket to the end of the rainbow."
-The Hollywood Reporter
"She was a fine actress as well as a beautiful one. We got on very well during our few weeks together."
-Ronald Neame
"She had the most delightfully wicked sense of humor. No one could make me laugh the way Eleanor could."
-Patricia Neal
Eleanor Parker in Never Say Goodbye, 1946
Eleanor Parker, 1950s
Eleanor Parker in An American Dream
In Memory of Eleanor Parker b. June 26, 1922 - d. December 9, 2013
Eleanor Parker (June 26, 1922 – December 9, 2013)
RIP Eleanor Parker (June 26, 1922 - December 9, 2013)
Auf Wiedersehen, Darling.
I often criticize “Rest in Peace” posts, but I feel this time it’s necessary. Eleanor Parker, known to most of you as the beautiful Baroness Schrader from The Sound of Music, has died at the age of 91.
She was a wonderful, beautiful and talented actress, and also a very underrated one whom I personally admire very much and will truly miss.
Rest in peace, Eleanor Parker (June 26, 1922 - December 9th 2013)
(if you’ve never seen her in anything more than sound of music, I suggest you go check out more of her films bc beautiful talented bb)
Lenore’s final performance Scaramouche (1952)
Eleanor Parker 1952
