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Parents need to know that The Sound of Music, which stars stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, is the beloved film adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic stage musical. It's rich in character, music, and story, as well as filled with positive messages.
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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)
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•Lead actress (Julie Andrews)
•Supporting actress (Peggy Wood)
•Art direction (color)
•Cinematography (color)
•Costume design (color)
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Though Hammerstein died at 65 in 1960, nine months into The Sound of Music ’s Broadway run, the movie has proved how lasting that heritage would be. He and Rodgers first teamed up when Hart...
Half a century later, The Sound of Music is probably still the world’s favorite big-screen stage musical adaptation. Joyous, gorgeous, comforting, full of (almost) uniformly spectacular songs, the film’s emotional power is irresistible, even for the many critics, such as Pauline Kael, who hated its shallowness and emotional manipulation.
May 17, 2018 · There is one person who still reportedly holds out against The Sound of Music and that is the 88-year-old Christopher Plummer, the actor who played Baron Von Trapp, and who has called the film ...
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