Two 'Sound of Music' Child Stars Reveal They Went to Prom Together

""It was such a gift to be given six siblings. My sister and brother were 16 and 15 years older than I was, respectively, so I almost grew up as a little bit of an only child. So I suddenly had all of these siblings ... And yeah, they've remained in my life forever.""

""We know we've been through a lot with each other: we've been through marriages, we've been through divorces; we've been through the deaths of family members and deaths of now two of our siblings from the film. And those are huge things.""

""Our own siblings and our parents kind of did, but didn't really. They didn't know what it was like to walk into the school cafeteria and suddenly 500 people just stop eating and turn and stare at you.""

The seven young actors who portrayed the Von Trapp children in 1965 maintained close, lifelong bonds. Kym Karath, who played the youngest child at age five and is now 67, described gaining a surrogate group of siblings who stayed in her life. Nick Hammond, who played the oldest brother and is now 75, escorted Karath to her first prom. The group has shared major life events together, including marriages, divorces, and funerals. Two of the original seven have died, leaving five living members. The actors still connect regularly and experienced intense public recognition as children.

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