The Sound of Music

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The Sound of Music is a 1959 Broadway musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, and a 1965 movie from 20th Century Fox. Both are loosely based on the lives of the von Trapp family. (In 1956 and 1958, two movies from Germany and Austria were also based on them.)

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In the movie, Julie Andrews (from Mary Poppins) plays a nun in Salzburg, Austria. She is sent from her convent to the home of Captain von Trapp, who has only seven children of his own after his wife died. Mischievous at first, von Trapp's children come to like Maria, and the nun falls in love with their father. Instead of choosing a baroness (wife of a noble figure) as his new wife, he ends up marrying Maria.

Soon after, Maria teaches the children how to sing. While she does so, the Nazis take over Austria (in the Anschluss), and want her husband back to join them. But, soon after the Captain performs at a concert, his family escapes to the Alps of Switzerland.

At the time that it came out, The Sound of Music was the second highest-grossing movie of all time (below Gone with the Wind).

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Came after:
My Fair Lady
Academy Award for Best Picture
1965
Came before:
A Man for All Seasons