Title: The Sound of Music
Runtime: 174 Min
Year: 1965
Genres: Biography - Drama - Family
Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, Heather Menzies-Urich, Nicholas Hammond, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner, Kym Karath, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Ben Wright, Daniel Truhitte, Norma Varden, Gilchrist Stuart
Directed By: Robert Wise
PLOT
In 1930's Austria, a young woman named Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When the Navy captain Georg Von Trapp writes to the convent asking for a governess that can handle his seven mischievous children, Maria is given the job. The Captain's wife is dead, and he is often away, and runs the household as strictly as he does the ships he sails on. The children are unhappy and resentful of the governesses that their father keeps hiring, and have managed to run each of them off one by one. When Maria arrives, she is initially met with the same hostility, but her kindness, understanding, and sense of fun soon draws them to her and brings some much-needed joy into all their lives -- including the Captain's. Eventually he and Maria find themselves falling in love, even though Georg is already engaged to a Baroness and Maria is still a postulant. The romance makes them both start questioning the decisions they have made.
Country: U.S.A.
Language: English
Writers: Howard Lindsay (book) & Russel Crouse (book) Ernest Lehman (screenplay) Maria von Trapp (book "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers") uncredited
Awards:
1966- Academy Awards, USA (Oscar)
-Best Director Robert Wise (WON)
-Best Film Editing William Reynolds (WON)
-Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment Irwin Kostal (WON)
-Best Picture Robert Wise (WON)
-Best Sound James Corcoran (20th Century-Fox SSD) and Fred Hynes (Todd-AO SSD) (WON)
-Best Actress in a Leading Role Julie Andrews (NOMINATED)
-Best Actress in a Supporting Role Peggy Wood (NOMINATED)
-Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color Boris Leven, Walter M. Scott and Ruby R. Levitt (NOMINATED)
-Best Cinematography, Color Ted D. McCord (NOMINATED)
-Best Costume Design, Color Dorothy Jeakins (NOMINATED)
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