Robert Wise, insisted on doing it absolutely straight. I was dying to send it up. ”Plummer’s irreverent attitude to the film which made him a star was well documented, but he denied referring to it as “the sound of mucus”.
Less well-known was his frosty relationship with his co-star Julie Andrews, cast as the children’s governess Maria. He found her incessant cheerfulness exhausting and described working with her as like “being hit over the head daily with a Hallmark greetings card”.
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