Her indefatigable nanny turned step-mom sang about hills that were alive with songs, while she herself later became a strong advocate for research into the rare soft tissue cancer that killed her husband in 2002. Who was her husband?

foosyerdoos

I think you could be talking about the actress Heather Menzies. She played one of the Von Trap children in the "The Sound Of Music". Her husband was Robert Urich. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Menzies Feb 22 09, 3:02 AM

looney_tunes

Robert Urich was the husband of Heather Menzies, the actress who played Louisa von Trapp in "The Sound of Music". He died of cancer in 2002. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001810/ Feb 22 09, 3:08 AM

queproblema

The question doesn't ask which cancer killed Robert Urich, but for the curious: "In 1996, Urich announced that he had been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, synovial cell sarcoma, that attacks a person's joints." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Urich Heather, an ovarian cancer survivor herself, works with the Urich Fund for Sarcoma Research at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Menzies That was for the merely curious; for the insatiably curious, the Wiki article on Heather has a link at the bottom to a page about the Sound of Music kids, which has a link to Heather's own page... Feb 22 09, 10:25 AM

edmund80

Correct. Heather Menzies was married to Robert Urich who passed away in 2002 due to synovial cell sarcoma. "Together with Urich's wife Heather and friends in the entertainment industry, they're hoping to kick sarcoma awareness and research up a notch, so that others can live. Among the plans: a celebrity golf tournament this month in Hollywood, to add to the more than $250,000 already raised by the Urich Sarcoma Research Fund. Besides Lagasse, the tournament's other co-chairs are hockey great Wayne Gretzky and NBC president of enterprises and syndication Ed Wilson. "Robert's death forced this issue into the spotlight, and for those of us who loved him, it's important to us to help others who suffer with this cancer," says Lagasse. "Hopefully the Urich fund will help improve the odds of people suffering with sarcoma. If it helps one person, I know it would have made a difference to Robert." http://www.cancer.med.umich.edu/news/lagasse.shtml http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/sites-types/synovial Feb 22 09, 3:11 PM