The Sound of Music (movie)
The Sound of Music is a 1965 American drama musical movie. It was directed by Robert Wise. It stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The movie is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music. The songs were written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical was based on the book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. The movie is about a young woman who leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the seven children of a naval officer widower. The Sound of Music contains several popular songs, including "Edelweiss", "My Favorite Things", "Climb Ev'ry Mountain", "Do-Re-Mi", "Sixteen Going on Seventeen", and the title song, "The Sound of Music".
| The Sound of Music | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Robert Wise |
| Screenplay by | Ernest Lehman |
| Story by | Maria von Trapp (uncredited) |
| Based on | The Sound of Music by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse |
| Produced by | Robert Wise |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Ted D. McCord |
| Edited by | William H. Reynolds |
| Music by | |
Production companies | Argyle Enterprises, Inc. |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 2 hours 52 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $8.2 million[1][2] |
| Box office | $286.2 million[1] |
The Sound of Music was shot on location in Salzburg, Austria; the state of Bavaria in Germany; and at the 20th Century Fox studios in California, USA. The movie won five Academy Awards including Best Picture. It displaced Gone with the Wind as the highest-grossing film of all-time. The cast album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the movie for preservation in the National Film Registry as it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Cast
change- Julie Andrews as Maria
- Christopher Plummer as Captain von Trapp
- Bill Lee overdubbed Plummer's singing
- Eleanor Parker as Baroness Elsa von Schraeder
| Boys | Girls | Nuns |
|---|---|---|
| Kurt | Liesl | Mother Abbess |
| Gretl | Sister Augusta | |
| Sister Margaretta | ||
| Sister Berthe | ||
| Sister Sophia | ||
| Sister Bernice | ||
| Sister Amma | ||
| Sister Edith |
| The Sound of Music | |
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| Judges | The First Soloist of the Choir of St. Agatha's Church in Murbach Fraulein Schweiger The Toby Reise Quintet The von Trapp Family Singers |
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Sound of Music". The Numbers. Archived from the original on September 3, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
- ↑ Solomon, Aubrey (1989). Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-810-84244-1.
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