The Sound of Music
1965 film by Robert Wise · Released March 2, 1965
The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman. It is based on the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Lindsay and Crouse, itself based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. The film stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. Set in Salzburg, Austria, it is a fictional retelling of Maria von Trapp's experiences as governess to seven children, her eventual marriage with their father Captain Georg von Trapp, and their escape during the Anschluss in 1938.
Cast ages when filming began (March 26, 1964)
- Julie Andrews, as Maria: 28
- Christopher Plummer, as Captain von Trapp: 34
- Bill Lee: 35
- Eleanor Parker, as Baroness Elsa von Schraeder: 41
- Richard Haydn, as Max Detweiler: 59
- Nicholas Hammond, as Friedrich von Trapp: 13
- Peggy Wood, as Mother Abbess: 72
- Angela Cartwright, as Brigitta von Trapp: 11
- Anna Lee, as Sister Margaretta: 51
- Norma Varden, as Frau Schmidt: 66
- Doris Lloyd, as Baroness Ebberfeld: 67
- Ben Wright, as Herr Zeller: 48
- Bill Lee: 47
- Charmian Carr, as Liesl von Trapp: 21
- Debbie Turner, as Marta von Trapp: 7
- Duane Chase, as Kurt von Trapp: 13
- Heather Menzies, as Louisa von Trapp: 14
- Kym Karath, as Gretl von Trapp: 5
- Marni Nixon, as Sister Sophia: 34
- Portia Nelson, as Sister Berthe: 43