The Sound of Music Sheet Music

The Sound of Music is a 65 American musical drama movie produced and directed through Robert Wise, and glaring Julie Andrews and Captain Christopher Plummer. The film is definitely an adaptation of the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The film's screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the phase musical's book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Based on the memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, the actual film is about a young Austrian woman studying to become a jetzt in Salzburg in 38 who is sent to the property of a retired naval police officer and widower to be governess to his seven kids. After getting love and music in to the lives of the family via kindness and patience, the girl marries the officer as well as together with the children they discover a way to survive the loss of their homeland through courage and belief.

The film was released upon March 2, 1965 in the usa, initially as a limited roadshow theatrical release. Although crucial response to the film had been widely mixed, the movie was a major commercial achievement, becoming the number one box workplace movie after four weeks, and also the highest-grossing film of 65. By November 1966, The Sound of Music had become the actual highest-grossing film of all-time-surpassing Gone with the Wind-and kept that distinction for 5 years. The film had been just as popular throughout the world, busting previous box-office records within twenty-nine countries. Following a primary theatrical release that survived four and a half years, as well as two successful re-releases, the actual film sold 283 mil admissions worldwide and gained a total worldwide gross associated with $286, 000, 000.

The Sound of Music received 5 Academy Awards, including Greatest Picture and Best Movie director. The film also obtained two Golden Globe Honours, for Best Motion Picture as well as Best Actress, the Company directors Guild of America Honor for Outstanding Directorial Accomplishment, and the Writers Guild associated with America Award for Greatest Written American Musical. More than a decade ago, the American Film Start (AFI) listed The Sound associated with Music as the fifty-fifth best American movie of all time, and also the fourth greatest movie music. In 2001, the United States Collection of Congress selected the actual film for preservation within the National Film Registry, discovering it "culturally, historically, or even aesthetically significant".