richard halliday and leland heyward own the rights for the film adaptation of the sound of music.
richard halliday and leland heyward own the rights for the film adaptation of the sound of music.
who owns the rights for the film adaptation of the sound of music?
richard halliday and leland heyward
in 1956, paramount pictures purchased the united states film rights, intending to produce an english-language version with audrey hepburn as maria. the studio eventually dropped its option, but one of its directors, vincent j. donehue, proposed the story as a stage musical for mary martin. producers richard halliday and leland heyward secured the rights and hired playwrights howard lindsay and russel crouse, who had won the pulitzer prize for "state of the union". they approached richard rodgers and oscar hammerstein ii to compose one song for the musical, but the composers felt the two styles—traditional austrian folk songs and their composition—would not work together. they offered to write a complete new score for the entire production if the producers were willing to wait while they completed work on "flower drum song". the producers quickly responded that they would wait as long as necessary. "the sound of music" stage musical opened on november 16, 1959 at the lunt-fontanne theatre in new york city and ran on broadway for 1,443 performances, winning six tony awards, including best musical. in june 1960, twentieth century fox purchased the film adaptation rights to the stage musical for $1.25 million () against ten percent of the gross.
the sound of music (film)
bullet::::- "the hidden children" (1917), silent film adaptation of novel. directed by oscar apfel









































bullet::::- "the fettered woman" (1917), silent film adaptation of "anne's bridge". directed by tom terriss









































bullet::::- "who goes there!" (1917), silent film adaptation of novel. directed by william p.s. earle









































bullet::::- "the woman between friends" (1918), silent film adaptation of "between friends". directed by tom terriss









































bullet::::- "the business of life" (1918), silent film adaptation of novel. directed by tom terriss









































bullet::::- "the danger mark" (1918), silent film adaptation of novel. directed by hugh ford
robert w. chambers