The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music is one of those films that my family watches every Christmas but is not specifically about the holiday. 

The movie poster.

      The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, the musical book written by the writing team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, and the screenplay written by Ernest Lehman. Based on the book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, the film 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", "The Lonely Goatherd", and the title song, "The Sound of Music".

      The Sound of Music was filmed on location in Salzburg, Austria; the state of Bavaria in Germany; and at the 20th Century Fox studios in California, United States. It was photographed in 70mm Todd-AO format by Ted D. McCord. The film won a total of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and displaced Gone with the Wind as the highest-grossing film of all-time. The cast album was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

      In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry as it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Read more . . . 

More Links to The Sound of Music:

• 'The Sound of Music' history at RNH
• Original NY Times review
• The Sound of Music album at Discogs (list of releases)
• The Sound Of Music : Salzburg 1964–2011
• The Sound of Music Reunion
• Julie Andrews sings with the real Maria Von Trap and here

More Links to the Von Trapp Family:

• Trapp Family Singers Documentary: Part 1, Part 2 , Part 3
• The Von Trapp Children - Amazing Grace 
• The Trapp Family Singers sing "Es Wollt Ein Jagerlein Jagen"