To think the young Christopher Plummer was a stone cold fox?

[CallaLilli]

As you might've guessed, I've just watched the annual Sound of Music airing on the BBC. And Captain Von Trapp! Well, you would, wouldn't you?

Sorry all he's mine has been since I was 7

BoGrainger hardly late to the party HE HAS BEEN MINE SINCE I WAS 7 and I am now ancient (well, 38, so ancienter than him at the time )

I'm suddenly unreasonably jealous of Charmaine Carr and their jokey flirty thing. Glad they didn't DTD though. OR DID THEY???!

I may have to go for a lie down after looking at all those gifs

I lurves him. Worryingly, so does DH. He has been known to stalk around the house announcing "you may call me (pause) Captain". (Eyebrow lift)

Despite Rolfe being a nasty little Nazi-boy, though, I still adore the summer-house scene with him and Leisl dancing on the benches.

He had a certain something, especially during that song in SOM ...at the end just before he proposed. Lovely, just lovely in the glass house. Swoons.

I too thought he was just an old man, until I went to one of those Singalonga Sound Of Music events and saw it on the big screen.

I fell in love with him, then.

DD was more interested in the fact that he was the baddie in UP yesterday

Charmaine Carr's Liesl memoir is quite funny. Not only was he putting the moves on her the whole time, but the director was worried she looked too mature to play a 16 year old, and encouraged her to eat lots of Austrian pastries to give her a youthful plumpness. Unfortunately, so did the child who played Gretl, leading CP to roar 'I'm not carrying this child, she's built like a tank!' so in all the later scenes where they're escaping the Nazis over the mountains, he's carting a lighter body double...

Yes to Chris Plummer, he was gorgeous.

I have a very soft spot for this chap in his prime...

Who is that? Dean Stockwell?

Could I contribute this to the conversation?

Oooh Gregory Peck - luvverly.

The chap I posted is Howard Keel.

Can I add for consideration the shot where he's waiting at the altar and puts his hand out to Julie Andrews?

And, whilst on the subject of older actors, Paul Newman? Phwoaaaarrrrrrr.

I wasn't keen on Howard Keel in his younger days eg Calamity Jane but really liked him as an old gimmer in Dallas

Cary Grant was georgous and my reserve after CP

None can compare to the sheer perfection that is Paul Newman.

Yul Brynner. Sigh.

I like the captain's accessories

Whistle
Gloves
Riding crop thingy
Guitar

And his nice tidy clothes AND twinkly eyes

he's a tiny bit camp mind. Sort of like elderly Ken doll. Only from the 1930s, and in austria

DEFINITELY knows how to accessorise.

And can fit 7 children and 2 adults in a tiny car - that's always going to come in useful and save on petrol. (while suffering from a deplorable lack of curiosity )