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Kym Karath has always been ready for her close-up.
The actress was just 3 years old when she was scouted while having a cheeseburger at her father’s restaurant in California. It turned out to be her Hollywood calling.
“Some producers walked up to me and my mom and asked my mom if I wanted to be in a movie,” the former 1960s child star told Fox News Digital. “And my mother said, ‘You’d better ask her.’ And I said, ‘If it won’t take too much time ‘cause I’m busy. I have a lot of dolls to take care of.’ And I guess they were super charmed. And that was the beginning of my first movie, [1963’s] ‘Spencer’s Mountain.’”
Doris Day, left, and a young Kym Karath in a scene from 1963’s “The Thrill of It All.” (FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images)
“Spencer’s Mountain,” a 1963 film starring Maureen O’Hara and Henry Fonda. It was Kym Karath’s first film. (LMPC via Getty Images)
However, Karath’s claim to fame was the 1965 Oscar-winning film adaptation of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music.” The musical and movie are fictionalized accounts of the real-life von Trapp family who escaped the Nazis in Austria. It told the tale of a 1930s governess who watches over the large family and their widowed father, naval captain Georg von Trapp, with the help of music.
By the time auditions were underway for the film, Karath had already received praise from the press, particularly from Hollywood columnist Louella Parsons. However, she was eager to show off her acting chops.
“By then I was 5 [but] I had an older brother and sister by 15 and 16 years, so… I thought I was 5 going on 18,” said Karath. “I was pretty poised, and I walked in with my portfolio under my arm and I said, ‘Good afternoon gentlemen.’… That was the first audition. And then there was a singing audition, which I was more than happy to participate in. And they asked me what songs I wanted to sing. I said, ‘What do you want me to sing?’ Because I knew…
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