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I Genuinely Can't Watch "The Sound Of Music" The Same Way Again After Reading These 21 Facts

1.First, Julie Andrews was always at the top of the list for the role of Maria von Trapp. According to The Sound of Music: The Making of America's Favorite Musical, writer Ernest Lehman said, "As far ...
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“The Sound of Music” Is 60! Inside the Lives of the Cast Now (Including Which Actress Went on to Sing ‘Edelweiss’ with the Real von Trapps)

Do re mi fa so, where are they now? Sixty years ago, the 1965 film The Sound of Music premiered, bursting Julie Andrews onto the scene and making everyone fall for Christopher Plummer. The movie was ...
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'The Sound of Music' was filmed in Salzburg 60 years ago. Locals say, so what?

SALZBURG, Austria — Dhananjay Raval first saw The Sound of Music, as a young child. This summer, he traveled from his hometown of Ahmedabad in western India with his own adult son to fulfill a ...
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‘The Sound of Music’ Almost Never Happened. Now, the Movie Celebrates 60 Years.

Although 20th Century Fox had acquired the film rights in 1959, The Sound of Music almost wasn’t made after the studio spent a huge sum on 1963’s Cleopatra. The movie version of The Sound of Music ...
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‘The Sound of Music' turns 60 this year. Salzburg has plenty in store for fans

In Salzburg, Austria last spring, I skipped around the fountain outside Mirabell Palace. Others did too. Some 60 years earlier, Maria and the von Trapp children danced around the palace's Pegasus ...