The Sound of Music (film) The Sound of Music (film) The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The film's screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musical's book by Lindsay and Crouse. Based on the memoir "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian woman
The Sound of Music (song) the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest Songs in Movie History. The opening line, "the hills are alive with the sound of music" appears in the 1968 Beatles movie "Yellow Submarine" and the TV show "Friends in Season 1 Episode 22" (1995). The song is referenced many times in the film "Moulin Rouge!" (2001). The Julie Andrews recording from the film features in the 1993 film "Addams Family Values". Renée Zellweger performs the song in the 2004 film "". A "Simpsons" comic book has a section in which Sideshow Bob and his brother Cecil sing parodies of musicals.