When🦋 was a child, Julie Andrews was a famous actress. She was the star in movies like The Sound Of Music, Marry Poppins, and My Fair Lady. 

All the 3 movies are musicals and contain many songs that are legends in the history of movies.

In The Sound Of Music, she plays the role of the governess to the children of a widower, Captain Von Trapp. 

The Captain was a strict disciplinarian who used a whistle to call and control his children. Using different notes on the whistle for names of the children and to get them to march and jump into formation in a set order.

Although the captain can sing well, music was not allowed in his family.

Julie Andrews was a trainee nun in an Abby. She was too high spirited to fit in well as a nun and so the nuns at the Abby were relieved to see her leave to be a governess.

Maria was to high spirited and refused to use the whistle and secretly taught the children music and to sing.

Just we learn to read by learning ABC's, Maria had to teach the children the basics of music, the Do Re Mi' s. The 8 notes in the Do Re Mi's or the Sounds of Music is the name of Movie and the famous song Doe A Deer, a female deer.

Here is some interesting information about that movie.

It is based on a real life musically talented family living in Austria. When Hitler came into power in Germany, the Austrian family was summoned to perform in Germany.

Responding to the summons will mean being drawn into the Nazi movement that they do not agree to. Refusing to obey the summons will mean being persecuted by the Nazis.

So the Von Trapp family had to flee Austria to Allied territory. 

In the movie they performed a concert where all the elites of Austrian society and the top brass of the German army in Austria attended. While the guests were enthralled with the concert and still hazy over the superb performance, the Von Trap family fled Austria.

During the filming of The Sound of Music, Julie Andrews sometimes sang songs from a film that has not been released yet, Marry Poppins, to the children. The children who were full of respect for Julie Andrews thought that she was a genius who could invent songs to sing.

The Sound of Music was filmed  in 1964. 50 years later, some of the children who acted in the original movie gathered in Salzburg, Austria to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the movie 

If you had enjoyed watching the Sound of Music the film of the 50th anniversary is something that you will ❤️

Please share on what are your favourite songs from The Sound Of Music.