The Sound of Music (movie)
The Sound of Music is a 1965 American 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 | |
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| Directed by | Robert Wise |
| Produced 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 |
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| Music by | |
| Cinematography | Ted D. McCord |
| Edited by | William H. Reynolds |
Production company | Argyle Enterprises, Inc. |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 174 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $8.2 million[2][3] |
| Box office | $286.2 million[2] |
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".
The Sound Of Music (movie) Media
Director and producer Robert Wise in 1990
Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews on location in Salzburg, 1964
Schloss Leopoldskron, where scenes were filmed representing the lakefront terrace and gardens of the von Trapp villa
The Sound of Music gazebo at Hellbrunn Palace in Salzburg was moved here from its original location at Schloss Leopoldskron.
References
- ↑ "The Sound of Music (1965): Original Print Information". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on February 10, 2015. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "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.
