The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music


Robert Wise Productions /

20th Century-Fox, 1965, Color, 173 minutes, ****

Released March, 1965



The story is a dramatized biopic about the Von Trapp Family Singers -who really did exist . The setting is Austria in the late 1930s, just before the war. Captain Von Trap (Christopher Plummer) hires Maria (Julie Andrews) as a nanny for his children, and he ends up falling in love with her. They marry and return from their honeymoon to find that Austria is now occupied by Hitler's Third Reich. A telegram summons Captain Von Trapp back to active duty - as a member of Hitler's Navy, but Captain Von Trapp is not about to serve! The Von Trapp family must find some way to get out of Austria until after the war.



Musical highlights include each and every song in the entire film! One of the best movie musicals ever made - required watching for anyone who likes anything!



Setting: "Salzburg, Austria, in the Last Golden Days of the Thirties"



Producer: Robert Wise

Associate Producer: Saul Chaplin

Executive Producer: Peter Levathes

Directed by: Robert Wise

Assistant Director: Ridgeway Callow

With the Partial Use of Ideas by: Georg Hurdalek

From the Stage Musical with Music and Lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse; Originally produced on the stage by Leland Hayward, Richard Halliday, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II

Screenplay by: Ernest Lehman

Music by: Richard Rodgers

Lyrics by: Oscar Hammerstein II

Additional Words and Music by: Richard Rodgers

Music Supervised, Arranged and Conducted by: Irwin Kostal

Production Designed by: Boris Leven

Choreography by: Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood

Set Decorations: Walter M. Scott, Ruby Levitt

Costumes Designed by: Dorothy Jeakins

Makeup by: Ben Nye

Hairstyles by: Margaret Donovan

Puppeteers: Bil Baird and Cora Baird

Second Unit Supervision: Maurice Zuberano

Vocal Supervision: Rober Tucker

Sound Recording Supervised by: Fred Hynes and James Corcoran

Sound by: Murray Spivack and Bernard Freericks

Director of Photography: Ted McCord

Additional Photography: Paul Beeson

Special Photographic Effects: L. B. Abbott; Emil Kosa, Jr.

Produced in Todd-AO, Color by De Luxe

Film Editor: William Reynolds



Awards: Five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Adapted Score, Best Sound; Five additional Academy Award nominations: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Color Cinematography, Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (Color), Best Costume Design



Ranked #4 in the AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals



Cast: Julie Andrews [Maria], Christopher Plummer [Captain Von Trapp], Eleanor Parker [The Baroness], Richard Haydn [Max Detweiler], Peggy Wood [Mother Abbess], Charmian Carr [Liesl], Heather Menzies [Louisa], Nicholas Hammond [Friedrich], Duane Chase [Kurt], Angela Cartwright [Brigitta], Debbie Turner [Marta], Kym Karath [Gretl], Anna Lee [Sister Margaretta], Portia Nelson [Sister Berthe], Ben Wright [Herr Zeller], Daniel Truhitte [Rolfe], Norma Varden [Frau Schmidt], Gil Stuart [Franz], Marni Nixon [Sister Sophia], Evadne Baker [Sister Bernice], Doris Lloyd [Baroness Ebberfeld]



Musical Program: [0:00] Prelude and The Sound of Music (sung by Julie Andrews preceding titles); [0:05] Overture and Preludium (Dixit Dominus) (played by Orchestra behind titles); [0:07] Preludium: Dixit Dominus / Morning Hymn / Alleluia (sung by Nun's Choir); [0:11] Maria (sung by Nuns); [0:18] I Have Confidence (sung and danced by Julie Andrews); [0:38] Sixteen Going on Seventeen (sung and danced by Charmian Carr and Daniel Truhitte); [0:49] My Favorite Things (sung by Julie Andrews and The Children); [0:57] Do-Re-Mi (sung and danced by Julie Andrews and The Children); [1:14] The Sound of Music (sung by The Children, joined by Christopher Plummer); [1:18] The Lonely Goatherd (sung by Julie Andrews and The Children, puppets operated by Bil Baird and Cora Baird); [1:24] Edelweiss (sung by Christopher Plummer, partially accompanied by Charmian Carr); [1:20] The Lonely Goatherd (instrumental arrangement played by Orchestra, Minuet danced by Julie Andrews and Duane Chase, then danced by Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer); [1:33] So Long, Farwell (sung by The Children); [1:46] The Sound of Music (sung by The Children); [1:55] Climb Ev'ry Mountain (sung by Margery McKay dubbing for Peggy Wood); [2:11] Something Good (sung by Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer); [2:15] Processional and Maria (played by Orchestra with Organ, patially sung by Chorus during wedding scene); [2:26] Sixteen Going on Seventeen (reprised by Julie Andrews and Charmian Carr); [2:34] Do-Re-Mi (alternate arrangement, excerpt sung by Julie Andrews and Children); [2:36] Edelweiss (sung by Christoper Plummer, joined by Julie Andrews, The Children and Audience); [2:39] So Long, Farwell (sung by Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and The Children); [2:52] Climb Ev'ry Mountain (sung by Chorus)