Eleanor Parker Biography, Age, Weight, Height, Friend, Like, Affairs, Favourite, Birthdate & Other

Eleanor Parker was a highly versatile American actress who won three Oscar nominations for Best Actress, an Emmy Award and a nomination for the Golden Globe award, but is best known for her supporting role of the baroness who had an ice-cold demeanor and was bent upon marrying Captain Von Trapp in the film Sound of Music.

She had little sympathy for the Captain’s children who had lost their mother a few years back and ultimately lost the Captain to Maria, the governess, who brought back music into the life of the Von Trapp family. She became a star because of her versatility. She acted in a huge variety of roles from a war hero’s noble-minded fianc to a vicious waitress-prostitute, sometimes as a redhead, sometimes as a brunette and sometimes as a blonde.

She was considered to be just below the top rung of actresses in Hollywood and had to settle for roles that portrayed the neglected female kind. Nevertheless she was a favorite of many leading actors of the times. After retiring from films she lived a quite life in Palm Springs and could proudly look back on a career that was both swank and subtle.