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Edit page. The Sound of Music: Directed by Robert Wise. With Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn. A young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.
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- 1965-04-01
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The Sound of Music, American musical film, released in 1965, that reigned for five years as the highest-grossing film in history. Its breathtaking photography and its many memorable songs, among them “My Favorite Things” and the title song, helped it to become an enduring classic. The nearly three-hour-long movie was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won five, including those for best picture and best director.
The Sound of Music, which takes place during the late 1930s, opens on a sweeping view of the Austrian Alps and a young woman, Maria (played by Julie Andrews), singing. When she hears church bells, she hurries back to the abbey, where she is a postulant, but she arrives too late for the church service. She tries to explain herself to the Mother Abbess (Peggy Wood), who tells her that she is to take up a position as governess to the seven children of the widowed former naval officer Captain Georg von Trapp (Christopher Plummer). When she arrives to take up her post, she learns that the captain requires military discipline from his children (ranging in age from 5 to 16) and expects the same from Maria. After dinner the eldest, Liesl (Charmian Carr), sneaks out to meet with Rolfe (Daniel Truhitte), a telegraph messenger. Maria’s warmth and kindness quickly win the children’s affection.
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The following day the captain leaves on a trip to Vienna. Upon learning that he will return with Baroness Elsa Schraeder (Eleanor Parker), whom he intends to marry, Maria determines to teach the children a song with which to greet the baroness. The captain and baroness return with their friend Max Detweiler (Richard Haydn), catching Maria and the children in a rowboat on the lake behind the house, which they overturn when they see the captain. The captain, displeased, fires Maria, but, when he hears the children singing for the baroness, he changes his mind. Max suggests that he enter the children in the upcoming Salzburg Festival, but the captain refuses. He does agree to host a ball, however. At the ball the baroness sees the captain dancing with Maria and realizes that they have feelings for each other. She tells Maria that she thinks that Maria is in love with the captain. Horrified, Maria packs and returns to the abbey.
The children are miserable without Maria, and the captain tells them that he and the baroness are to be married. At the abbey, the Mother Abbess tells Maria that she cannot hide from her feelings and must return to the von Trapps. After her return, the baroness and the captain break off their engagement, and the captain and Maria admit their love for each other. They marry in the abbey church.
•Studios: Robert Wise Productions and Argyle Enterprises
•Director: Robert Wise
•Writers: Ernest Lehman (screenplay), from the stage musical book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
•Music: Irwin Kostal (score); Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (songs)
•Julie Andrews (Maria)
•Christopher Plummer (Captain Georg von Trapp)
•Eleanor Parker (Baroness Elsa Schraeder)
•Richard Haydn (Max Detweiler)
•Peggy Wood (Mother Abbess)
•Charmian Carr (Liesl)
•Picture*
•Lead actress (Julie Andrews)
•Supporting actress (Peggy Wood)
•Art direction (color)
•Cinematography (color)
•Costume design (color)
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Mar 2, 2018 · March 2, 2018 12:31pm. Photofest. On March 2, 1965, The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, held its world premiere at the Rivoli Theatre in New York. The 174-minute...
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- Maria von Trapp sold the rights to her life story for a song. After her book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers was published in 1949, there was interest from various quarters in buying the film rights.
- 20th Century-Fox almost didn’t make 'The Sound of Music' When the Broadway show opened in 1959 and proved to be such a smash hit, the studio, which had already produced four R&H adaptations, bought film rights for $1.25 million.
- The original director had a different vision for the movie. William Wyler, a Swiss-German Jew who had won three Best Director Oscars, was originally assigned to direct the film.
- Other actors were considered for the roles of Maria and Captain von Trapp. Doris Day was seriously considered for the role of Maria, along with Leslie Caron, Anne Bancroft and even Grace Kelly.
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Feb 28, 2024 · Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Charmain Carr, Heather Menzies, Angela Cartwright, Kym Karath, Duane Chase, Eleanor Parker, Nicholas Hammond, Debbie Turner, Peggy Wood, Richard Haydn, Daniel Truhitte, Ben Wright, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Norma Varden, Dorothy Jeakins, Marni Nixon.
