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
Eunice Gayson and studied operatic singing. Gayson played a major role in the Hammer horror film "The Revenge of Frankenstein" and appeared on television in series such as "The Saint" (which starred a future James Bond, Roger Moore) and "The Avengers". She played the Baroness Elsa Schraeder in the 1962 London production of "The Sound of Music", during which time she also filmed scenes for the first two Bond films, "Dr. No" (1962) and "From Russia with Love" (1963). She remained a regular in London theatre, appearing in, among other productions, the comedy "The Grass Is Greener" (1971). In the early 1990s,