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former child star Debbie Turnerbest known for her role in Marta von Trapp sound of musicShortly after her breakthrough film, she decided to leave Hollywood.
“I was a floral designer for many years. I designed weddings,” Turner, 69, told us people In an interview published on Monday, December 22, she discussed the career path she chose after retiring from acting. “I even designed a wedding at the Leopoldskron Palace in Salzburg many years ago. I’ve had some really great weddings.”
Turner said she even served as a “White House Christmas decorator.”
“It was a really great experience — probably one of the most physically demanding and cool things I’ve ever done,” she told the outlet before detailing her time at the White House in 2017.
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“It’s a week-long deal. They send me and 149 other designers to do all these things to make the Christmas magic at the White House happen. So I’m excited to be a part of it,” Turner said.
She also recalled a “pretty amazing” yet frightening experience during the project.
“The proudest moment in that house was doing the biggest tree in the Blue Room. They called it the People’s Tree. I got to decorate the People’s Tree, which is the centerpiece or focal point of the entire White House,” the former actress explained. “I had to climb up the scaffolding. I almost fell over and killed myself. It was really cool.”
Turner was only 7 years old when she played Marta, the second daughter of the von Trapp family in the film. sound of musicReleased in 1965. More than a decade later, she starred in the 1979 film North Dallas Fortywhich marked her only acting experience to date.
Turner previously disclosed her funeral detailssound of music careers in september interview peoplerevealed that she had trouble finding other roles after the musical movie.
“Angela (cartwright) was already a well-known actor before. I’m not. I’m a TV commercial actress,” Turner told the outlet, explaining that many of her sound of music The co-stars had already launched their acting careers before joining the film. Cartwright, now 73, made his screen debut when he was 3 years old. Someone up there likes me before she played Brigitte von Trapp.
“I’d go to interviews and they’d say, ‘Oh, so you’re sound of music? ‘” Turner continued. “And then it was like, I don’t know if I was put on a pedestal or thrown out – I don’t know. I just didn’t have a job. “
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After leaving Hollywood, Turner settles down with husband Rick Larsonwhom she married in 1980. The couple has four daughters.
Although Turner told people In a December interview, she said she hoped to work in the White House again and that, for the most part, she was “kind of retired.”
“My husband retired last year and I thought, ‘Well, I don’t need to keep doing this.'” I’ve been doing weddings for a long time, and being a wedding florist is a very demanding job. So, I mean, it’s physically hard to do that. I loved designing, but I had just turned 69 and felt like, ‘I’m too old for this,'” she said. “So I kind of held back. I mean, if something truly amazing comes along, I might get back into it. But for all practical purposes, I’m retired. So now it’s grandkids time! “
