The Sound of Music (1965) | |
| Director(s) | Robert Wise |
| Producer(s) | Saul Chaplin (associate), Robert Wise, Peter Levathes (executive uncredited), Richard D. Zanuck (executive uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Biographical, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance |
| Top Topics | Based on Play, Book-Based, Children, Romance (Musical) |
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The Sound of Music Overview:
The Sound of Music (1965) was a Musical - Drama Film directed by Robert Wise and produced by Robert Wise, Richard D. Zanuck, Saul Chaplin and Peter Levathes.
The film was based on the memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers written by Maria von Trapp 1949.
SYNOPSIS
This box-office champ of the '60s (ousting previous champ, 1939's Gone With the Wind, and retaining the title until The Godfather in 1972), and the most successful musical of all time, brought families into theaters for repeat viewings. The trilling voice and wholesome appeal of Andrews and the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein are highlights of the romantic musical that follows a convent novitiate who becomes caretaker for a widowed Austrian captain's brood of seven children and eventually wins the heart of the stern Plummer. Guided by her musical talent, the whole bunch forms the Von Trapp Family Singers. They take the show on the road when Nazis threaten their idyllic life. The story greatly benefits from the charm of Andrews, who had just won an Oscar for Mary Poppins. Much as he had done with West Side Story (1961), director Wise opened the visual possibilities of the musical with location shooting among Alpine vistas. Songs include: "Climb Every Mountain," "Something Good," "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?" "Sixteen, Going on Seventeen," "My Favorite Things," "Edelweiss."
(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).
.The Sound of Music was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2001.
Academy Awards 1965 --- Ceremony Number 38 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Actress | Julie Andrews | Nominated |
| Best Supporting Actress | Peggy Wood | Nominated |
| Best Art Direction | Art Direction: Boris Leven; Set Decoration: Walter M. Scott, Ruby Levitt | Nominated |
| Best Cinematography | Ted McCord | Nominated |
| Best Costume Design | Dorothy Jeakins | Nominated |
| Best Director | Robert Wise | Won |
| Best Film Editing | William Reynolds | Won |
| Best Music - Scoring | Irwin Kostal | Won |
| Best Picture | Robert Wise, Producer | Won |
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The Sound of Music (1965)
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Quotes from
Captain von Trapp: Well, apparently, we're both suffering from a deplorable lack of curiosity.
Brigitta: I think your dress is the ugliest one I ever saw!
Kurt: Brigitta, you shouldn't say that!
Brigitta: Why not? Don't you think it's ugly?
Kurt: Of course, but Fraulein Helga's was ugliest.
Maria: You know how Sister Berthe always makes me kiss the floor after we've had a disagreement? Well, lately I've taken to kissing the floor whenever I see her coming, just to save time.
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Facts about
In the closing shot, when the family is climbing over the hills to safety, it is not really Kym Karath as Gretl on the shoulders of Captain von Trapp. In the DVD version, it is revealed that while in Austria, Kym Karath gained a lot of weight. This was one of the last shots filmed and so she was evidently a bit too heavy to be carried on Christopher Plummer's back. Plummer requested a stunt double and that is who's seen being carried on his back.
In the original play the Captain and Baroness separate due to ideological differences: the Baroness refuses to stand up against the Nazis, and the Captain refuses to compromise with the Nazis.
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