Louisa from ‘Sound of Music’ dies
MORE THAN 50 years after charming audiences with her portrayal of Louisa in the 1965 film “The Sound of Music,” actress Heather MenziesUrich died of brain cancer. She was 68.
Menzies-Urich was diagnosed with cancer about a month ago. Her husband, Robert Urich, who starred in the TV series “Vegas,” died of cancer in 2002.
Menzies-Urich is survived by three children and two grandchildren.
She died Sunday night, surrounded by her kids and other relatives at a family residence in Canada.
“She was an actress, a ballerina and loved living her life to the fullest,” her son, Ryan Urich, told Variety. “She was not in any pain but, nearly four weeks after her diagnosis of terminal brain cancer, she had enough and took her last breath on this Earth at 7:22 p.m.”
At age 15, Menzies-Urich was cast as the third oldest of the seven von Trapp children in the film adaptation of “The Sound of Music.” The bigscreen version of the Broadway musical won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Menzies-Urich went on to appear in the ’60s films “Hawaii” and “The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes,” as well as the 1977 TV series “Logan’s Run.”
Menzies-Urich’s former colleagues, including Kym Karath, who played Gretl, the youngest von Trapp child, expressed their sorrow on social media.
“I am filled with infinite sadness tonight,” Karath posted on Twitter. “My precious friend and SOM sister Heather Menzies passed away this evening. Devastated.”
Menzies-Urich aggressively sought to shatter her innocent image, posing nude in 1973 for Playboy magazine at the age of 23. MEXICO CITY — Federal police arrested a man early Monday suspected of ordering the March murder of Miroslava Breach, one of the highest-profile journalists slain this year amid a wave of such killings in Mexico.
The National Security Commission said in a statement that the 43-year-old suspect was detained along with two others in a morning operation in the town of Bacobampo, Sonora state. It identified him as the presumed head of a criminal gang with a strong presence in parts of Sonora and Chihuahua states.
Breach, 54, was a respected correspondent for the national newspaper La Jornada and also contributed to other papers in the cities of Chihuahua and Juarez. She was shot eight times outside her garage in Chihuahua city the morning of March 23.
A rolled-up cardboard message was reportedly left at the scene that said “for being a tattletale.” At least 10 journalists have been murdered this year in the country, one of the world’s deadliest for the profession.