The Soun̈d of Music - Directed by Robert Wise- Starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer -175 Minutes- 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director

 

The Soun̈d of Music - Directed by Robert Wise- Starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer -175 Minutes- 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director - Available on Amazon Prime Video 

The Sound of Music  is based on the real life story of the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world's best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II. Julie Andrews plays the role of Maria, the tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey who becomes a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.

The Sound of Music reigned for five years as the highest-grossing film in history. Its breathtaking photography and its many memorable songs, among them “My Favorite Things” and the title song, helped it to become an enduring classic. The nearly three-hour-long movie was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won five, including those for best picture and best director.

The following day the captain leaves on a trip to Vienna. Upon learning that he will return with Baroness Elsa Schraeder (Eleanor Parker), whom he intends to marry, Maria determines to teach the children a song with which to greet the baroness. The captain and baroness return with their friend Max Detweiler (Richard Haydn), catching Maria and the children in a rowboat on the lake behind the house, which they overturn when they see the captain. The captain, displeased, fires Maria, but, when he hears the children singing for the baroness, he changes his mind. Max suggests that he enter the children in the upcoming Salzburg Festival, but the captain refuses. He does agree to host a ball, however. At the ball the baroness sees the captain dancing with Maria and realizes that they have feelings for each other. She tells Maria that she thinks that Maria is in love with the captain. Horrified, Maria packs and returns to the abbey.

The children are miserable without Maria, and the captain tells them that he and the baroness are to be married. At the abbey, the Mother Abbess tells Maria that she cannot hide from her feelings and must return to the von Trapps. After her return, the baroness and the captain break off their engagement, and the captain and Maria admit their love for each other. They marry in the abbey church.

Austria is annexed by Nazi Germany (the Anschluss) while they are on their honeymoon. While Max is rehearsing the children for the Salzburg Festival, Rolfe gives Liesl a telegram to give to her father upon his return. The telegram informs the captain that he is to report for duty in the German navy the following day. The captain and Maria decide that the family must leave Austria that night. However, Nazi troops led by Herr Zeller (Ben Wright) catch them pushing their car away from the house. The captain tells them that they are on their way to perform in the Salzburg Festival, and the Nazis escort them there. After the family performs, they escape to the abbey. The Nazis follow them there, and they hide among the catacombs. Rolfe, who is with the Nazi troops, spots them. He allows them to escape but then calls out that he has seen them. The von Trapps flee in the caretaker’s car, which the Nazis are following.

Germany (the Anschluss) while they are on their honeymoon. While Max is rehearsing the children for the Salzburg Festival, Rolfe gives Liesl a telegram to give to her father upon his return. The telegram informs the captain that he is to report for duty in the German navy the following day. The captain and Maria decide that the family must leave Austria that night. However, Nazi troops led by Herr Zeller (Ben Wright) catch them pushing their car away from the house. The captain tells them that they are on their way to perform in the Salzburg Festival, and the Nazis escort them there. After the family performs, they escape to the abbey. The Nazis follow them there, and they hide among the catacombs. Rolfe, who is with the Nazi troops, spots them. He allows them to escape but then calls out that he has seen them. The von Trapps flee in the caretaker’s car, which the Nazis are unable to follow because two nuns have sabotaged their cars.

Although The Sound of Music met with mixed reviews, it was an immediate and lasting hit with audiences, largely on the strength of the performance of Andrews, who had won the Academy Award for best actress for her role as the title character of Mary Poppins (1964). The movie had its genesis in the memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers (1949), by Maria Augusta Trapp. The book’s first film treatment was the West German movie Die Trapp-Familie (1956; The Trapp Family). It was reworked as a stage musical, The Sound of Music, with songs by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, which opened on Broadway in 1959 and won six Tony Awards. Director Robert Wise won praise for his lush adaptation of the musical to the screen. Noted “ghost singer” Marni Nixon made her on-camera debut in the movie as Sister Sophia.

Throughly Modern Millie - A 1967 Musical Movie directed by George Hill - Starring Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore and Carol Channing

Available on Internet Archives 

The screenplay, by Richard Morris, is based on the 1956 British musical Chrysanthemum.

Millie Dillmount (Julie Andrews) is a young woman from Kansas who arrives in New York City in 1922 with dreams of becoming a modern flapper and marrying a wealthy man. She gets a job as a stenographer at Sincere & Company, where she sets her sights on her boss, Trevor Graydon (John Gavin). However, Millie's plans are complicated by a number of factors, including her roommate Dorothy Brown (Mary Tyler Moore), who is also in love with Trevor; her landlady, Mrs. Meers (Beatrice Lillie), who is secretly running a white slavery ring; and Jimmy Smith (James Fox), a poor paperclip salesman who falls in love with Millie.

The film was a critical and commercial success, and won six Academy Awards, including Best Original Score and Best Costume Design.

 

Mary Poppins - A 1964 Movie Musical Starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke - Directed by Robert Stevenson- Academy Award Best Actress

Mary Poppins - A 1964 Movie Musical Starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke - Directed by Robert Stevenson- Academy Award Best Actress


The screenplay is by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, based on P. L. Travers's book series Mary Poppins.
The film stars Julie Andrews in her feature film debut as Mary Poppins, a magical nanny who visits a dysfunctional family in London and employs her unique brand of lifestyle to improve the family's dynamic.



Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, and Glynis Johns are featured in supporting roles.
The film was released on August 27, 1964, to critical acclaim and commercial success, grossing $31 million in its original domestic run. It became the highest-grossing film of 1964, and at the time of its release, was Disney's highest-grossing film ever. During its theatrical lifetime, it grossed over $103 million worldwide.


It received a total of 13 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture—a record for any film released by Walt Disney Studios—and won five: Best Actress for Andrews, Best Film Editing, Best Original Music Score, Best Visual Effects, and Best Original Song for "Chim Chim Cher-ee".

The Sound of Music- A 1965 Musical - Directed by Robert Wise- Starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer

 

The Sound of Music is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical, composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Lindsay and Crouse.

It is based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, which is a fictionalized account of her experiences as a governess to seven children, her eventual marriage with their father Captain Georg von Trapp, and their escape from Austria during the Anschluss in 1938.

The film was a critical and commercial success, winning five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and becoming the highest-grossing film of 1965.

It is considered one of the greatest musicals of all time and has been preserved in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

The film is packed with iconic songs that have become ingrained in popular culture, including "Do-Re-Mi," "My Favorite Things," "The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Music," "Climb Every Mountain," and "Edelweiss." These songs are beautifully integrated into the story, with memorable scenes like the children performing on the gazebo steps and the heartwarming singalong on the mountaintop.

The Sound of Music was a critical and commercial success, winning five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. It remains one of the highest-grossing films of all time and is beloved for its uplifting story, memorable music, and stunning visuals. 

Victor-Victoria- A 1982 Musical directed by Blake Edwards- Starring Julie Andrews and James Garner - Set in Paris

 

Victor-Victoria - A 1982 Musical directed by Blake Edwards- Starring Julie Andrews and James Garner - Set in Paris

A marvelous very engaging showcase for the talents of Julie Andrews 

Struggling to find work, Victoria (Julie Andrews) meets  a down-and-out songwriter. Together, they hatch a scheme to create a new act: Victoria will masquerade as a man named "Count Victor Grazinski," who in turn performs as a female impersonator named "Victoria." The act becomes a sensation, but complications arise when both a Chicago gangster and Toddy himself fall in love with Victoria.

Victor/Victoria was a critical and commercial success. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning Best Original Score. Julie Andrews received praise for her performance, earning her a Golden Globe nomination.