The 1965 Oscar-winning film "The Sound of Music" is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
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The 1965 Oscar-winning film "The Sound of Music" is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. To mark the 50th anniversary of the film, a number of events, DVDs, books, soundtracks and screenings are set to take place this year to honor the milestone. [File photo] |
79 year-old Julie Andrews stars as Maria Von Trapp in the musical says she can’t believe the film has turned 50:
"People have been joking with me all along saying 'You'll be back for the 100th' and so on! The mind boggles but I'm very glad. This is a lovely moment to mark. I've been saying all along - it's like a very bad joke because surely it was only 30 years ago - not 50. I feel I lost 20 somewhere along the way. A little thing called life got in the way in there."
The film is about a young woman who leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the seven children of a naval officer.
"The Sound of Music" won five Oscars and stands as the Number-3 US domestic box office champion of all time, adjusted for inflation, following "Gone With the Wind" and "Star Wars."
To mark the 50th anniversary of the film, a number of events, DVDs, books, soundtracks and screenings are set to take place this year to honor the milestone.
20th Century Fox is releasing a DVD collection of the film.
"The Sound of Music" is also to be screened in over 500 theaters in the US starting next month.