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 of the same name. Based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian postulant in Salzburg, Austria, in 1938 who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children. After bringing love and music into the lives of the family, she marries the officer and, together with the children, finds a way to survive the loss of their homeland.