The Sound of Music

[butterscotchgreer]

i think i saw this first at the age of 2 or 3 and ever since i have been singing my way through life. julie andrews truely left an impression on me with her performance as Fraulein Maria. wow! she should have gotten the oscar for this role!

[greergarson]

I adore julie Andrews and have seen this movie countless time and have seen the london stage show staring the Lovely Connie fisher who I am also a big fan of. and met and spoke to her for a while after show.

[greergarson]

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here is a link to a photo of Connie and I

[butterscotchgreer]

oh what a cute picture paula!! the sound of music and julie andrews were the whole reasons i became so involved in music. my mother is a soprano and can sing like julie and so i learned off of my momma and julie at the same time. heehee! they were both my inspirations and i just love julie!

i remember thinking when i was lots littler that julie was the real maria von trapp and i had always wondered where her and christopher plummer were with all their children. i had no clue what a movie was, i thought it was all real, and wanted dearly to be on the stage with them. heehee! well now i know obviously that it isnt real and i read the bio of the real von trapp family and how maria and georg really met and i just loved reading it. of course i always see julie and christopher as them when reading the book. i dont ever take into a count that they were different people. heehee! it is like reading Pride and Prejudice. every time i read it i see larry and greer playing the aprts ever so perfectly. heehee!

[duchessapril21]

I saw this when I was like 11? And that's by the year 2003 or 2004. I said to myself, "Am I too late to see and LOVE this film?" Clearly, no! It's wonderful!

[lena01]

The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 Broadway musical of the same name, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The film's screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musical's book by Lindsay and Crouse. Based on the memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian woman studying to become a nun in Salzburg in 1938 who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children.[4] After bringing and teaching love and music into the lives of the family through kindness and patience, she marries the officer and together with the children they find a way to survive the loss of their homeland through courage and faith.
The film was released on March 2, 1965 in the United States, initially as a limited roadshow theatrical release. Although critical response to the film was widely mixed, the film was a major commercial success, becoming the number one box office movie after four weeks, and the highest-grossing film of 1965. By November 1966, The Sound of Music had become the highest-grossing film of all-time—surpassing Gone with the Wind—and held that distinction for five years. The film was just as popular throughout the world, breaking previous box-office records in twenty-nine countries. Following an initial theatrical release that lasted four and a half years, and two successful re-releases, the film sold 283 million admissions worldwide and earned a total worldwide gross of $286,000,000.