The Sound of Music: The Making of America's Favorite Movie
Language: English
Published by Chicago Review Press, 2018
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- Title
- The Sound of Music: The Making of America's Favorite Movie
- Author
- Hirsch, Julia Antopol
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- very_good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0912777389
- ISBN 13
- 9780912777382
The Sound of Music: The Making of America’s Favorite Movie is not only an unequalled tribute to this beloved movie musical but also the most complete behind-the-scenes account of the creation of this Hollywood classic.
Through exclusive, in-depth interviews with Robert Wise, Ernest Lehman, Saul Chaplin, Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Kym Karath, Johannes von Trapp, Richard Zanuck, and dozens of other cast and crew members; over 200 stills from the movie’s most memorable scenes; rare snapshots from personal scrapbooks; and papers from the Fox Studio archives, Julia Antopol Hirsch has re-created the magic that is The Sound of Music:
- Julie Andrews’s “first kiss” with Christopher Plummer, she recalls, was crazy, because neither of them could stop laughing.
- Plummer’s after hours festivities with the nuns around the piano often went on way into the night.
- When she rushed up the mountain for the famous opening scene, Julie Andrews kept getting knocked to the ground by the downdraft from the cameraman’s helicopter.
- Yul Brynner, Walter Matthau, and Sean Connery were all considered for the role of the Captain.
- Mia Farrow, Sharon Tate, and Richard Dreyfuss auditioned for juvenile roles.
- Director Robert Wise, under pressure from Fox’s Richard Zanuck for being over budget, almost didn’t finish the location shoot in Austria because it simply wouldn’t stop raining.
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About the Author
Julia Antopol Hirsch is a screenwriter and former story editor for Robert Wise Productions. She lives in Vancouver, Washington.
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