The Sound of Music
originally aired on ABC
The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical, composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian postulant who, in 1938, is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children. By November 1966, it had become the highest-grossing film of all-time.