Parker's best-known screen role was playing Baroness Elsa von Schraeder in the 1965 Oscar-winning musical The Sound of Music. In 1966, she played an alcoholic widow in the crime …

Jul 14, 2020 · Because really, you can’t mess with The Sound of Music. I have always wondered what happened to Max! He helps them escape and then…what? Well I think Baroness …

The Baroness Elsa von Schraeder is a glamorous widow living in high-society Vienna. She's smart, beautiful, wealthy, and sophisticated—but she still doesn't get the guy. Even worse, she …

Mar 2, 2020 · So even before she makes her Sound of Music entrance, Maria’s rival, the Baroness Elsa von Schraeder (played by the enchanting Eleanor Parker), has the odds …

When the Captain returns to the villa with Baroness Elsa Schraeder, a wealthy socialite, and their mutual friend Max Detweiler, they are greeted by Maria and the children returning from a boat …

However, her best-known movie for many fans remains “The Sound of Music” (1965), in which she played the role of Baroness Elsa Schraeder. In this role, Parker embodied the elegant and …

The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria …

Sep 7, 2021 · In the musical, the character of Baroness Schraeder acts as Maria’s rival for Captain von Trapp’s affections. She wants to marry Georg and is ruthless in her attempts to rid …

Sep 24, 2020 · Baroness Elsa von Schraeder won’t appear until roughly an hour into The Sound of Music, by which time we’ve already watched the indomitably energetic Maria (Julie …

Oct 30, 2008 · She has always been seen as the suspicious fiancée who urged Capt von Trapp to accept Nazi rule, but Baroness Schräder is about to undergo a dramatic transformation, …

Dec 13, 2013 · Baroness Schraeder uses these words to describe herself to Captain von Trapp in “The Sound of Music.” Until she died this week at the age of 91, I hadn’t even known her real …

Dec 5, 2016 · This is Baroness Elsa Schraeder, who is played by Eleanor Parker. Captain von Trapp gets engaged to the Baroness, something that causes quite a bit of distress for the …

Dec 10, 2013 · Eleanor Parker, who played the haughty Baroness Schraeder in 1965’s The Sound of Music, died Monday following complications from pneumonia. She was 91.

Jun 5, 2013 · Underappreciated and certainly betrayed by her fiancé Captain Georg von Trapp, Baroness Von Schrader (brilliantly played by Eleanor Parker in the film) is The Sound of …

Dec 10, 2013 · Eleanor Parker, best known for losing out — glamorously — to Maria in the film version of The Sound of Music, died Monday after complications from pneumonia. In addition …

Jun 21, 2010 · Captain von Trapp returns from Vienna with guests in tow: his glamorous love interest, Baroness Elsa Schraeder (Eleanor Parker), and enterprising family friend/ chaperone, …

Oct 16, 2016 · Upon learning of the Captain’s desire to marry Baroness Schraeder (Eleanor Parker), Maria leaves without saying goodbye. Her heart is broken but, instead of …

The children are spied canoeing on the lake - as they stand to greet their father in the unwieldy vessel, the boat overturns and capsizes, and everyone falls out. The completely soaked von …

Dec 11, 2013 · Eleanor Parker was an actress of patrician beauty nicknamed "the woman of a thousand faces" for the range of parts she played, from a terrified prisoner in Caged to the …

6 hours ago · Jessica Salande is Maria and Michael John Smith is Capt. von Trapp in The Company's production of 'The Sound of Music' in St. Bernard running now. ... Rachel Gagnard …

Apr 26, 2024 · While I was born more than a decade after The Sound of Music hit theaters in 1965, ... I love how much he loosened up around his pal Max and especially the Baroness …

Feb 3, 2025 · The glamorous Countess Gabriele Von Blerkom, a take on the Baroness Elsa von Schraeder from “The Sound of Music,” is deftly pegged as a likely Nazi though “it’s never …

Jan 26, 2025 · The Sound of Music perpetuated an illusion, leaving American antisemitism in the 1930s and burying it away from collective consciousness. This distortion persisted through the …

Jan 10, 2025 · The composer Edmond Dédé’s name is fast becoming a familiar one among scholars who study music in the 19th-century United States. Sally McKee’s The Exile’s Song: …

Jul 6, 2015 · Because really, you can’t mess with The Sound of Music. I have always wondered what happened to Max! He helps them escape and then…what? Well I think Baroness …

Feb 2, 2025 · The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it …