Here’s some early snippets from ABC’s 20/20 special tonight The Untold Story of The Sound of Music airing at 10 PM ET. ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer goes behind the scenes of the classic movie, exploring why it still resonates 50 years later. She even takes the film’s lead actress Julie Andrews with her throughout Austria for a tour of famed Sound of Music landmarks, including the house where Maria Von Trapp lived — a place Andrews never visited. In the clip above, Andrews and actor Christopher Plummer reveal that they could have been lovers during the shoot, but weren’t. In addition, Plummer eloquently plays the film’s title track on the piano below. When Sound of Music premiered, the United States was facing the Vietnam War and the bloodshed in Selma. However, audiences en masse were drawn to the film’s affirmation of hope and possibility, shelling out $158.7M at the domestic box office.
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She’s doing a special about a FOX film, I guess Disney has nothing to offer.
ABC/Disney bought the television rights to The Sound of Music some years ago. That and the fact that Andrews is perhaps more identified as a Disney star with Mary Poppins and The Princess Diary movies. She also had a short lived ABC variety show a few decades back. Disney is an iconic studio known for quality family entertainment. Does any star really identify with 20th Century FOX? None come to mind for most casual movie fans.
Marilyn?
Marilyn Monroe was a Fox star :)
Who?
This film was one of the turning points that help save the studio
I would buy an album based on Plummer’s piano playing. I really do love his rendition of the title theme.
I think I would, too. It’s too bad that the way he played the theme sounded a little rushed, but if 20/20 had given the special more than an hour (cutting down on the commercials, maybe?:() I’m sure he would have been more relaxed at the piano.
CONTRAST with our decades STALE,
franchise slum meets theme park,
debasement op Hollywood 2015.
Thankfully, we have quality movies like this to pass to future generations to show them what Hollywood ONCE WAS!!!
Greenport High School did The Sound Of Music in 1980 and was one of the biggest hits we ever had
by incredible coincidence Camp Ramah did a killer version in 1982