At 50, 'Sound of Music' has stood test of time (Marta & OS just got home from the BIG screen showing

Tickets for the final special engagement showing on the west coast tonight or nationwide Wednesday the 22nd: http://www.fathomevents.com/event/the-sound-of-music


I'll have a memory filled write up in a day or two about Marta and I taking our oldest granddaughter to "The Sound of Music" today. It is part of a nationwide 50th anniversary gala.

Below the title story is some interesting trivia like Sean Connery almost getting the Captain von Trapp part.



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This Aug. 5, 1966, file photo shows members of the von Trapp family as they gave a public concert at the family lodge in Stowe, Vermont.


POSTED: SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2015 12:15 AM
By Bob Fischbach / World-Herald staff writer

On a wall in the projection booth at the Dundee Theatre, scrawled in longhand, is a bit of Omaha movie history that’s never been painted over:
Longest movie run ever 118 weeks 2 years 3 months 1 week

1,316 performances of “The Sound of Music” in 70mm 4-5-1965 to 7-13-1967

The Dundee, which had “The Sound of Music” exclusively in Omaha (typical for the pre-multiplex era), hosted its second-longest run in the United States. The Loma in San Diego ran it 133 weeks.

Today and Wednesday, “The Sound of Music” will play in five Omaha theaters and one in Lincoln to mark the 50th anniversary of the film’s release. Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne will give a special filmed introduction.

FULL story at link.


Sean Connery, far left, in "The Hunt for Red October."


http://www.omaha.com/go/sean-connery-in-sound-of-music-it-almost-happened/article_0d6535b0-74d6-56a7-b5ed-442c82ff16ce.html

POSTED: SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2015 1:00 AM
By Bob Fischbach / World-Herald staff writer

No one other than Julie Andrews could have played Maria, right? But what about Audrey Hepburn or Anne Bancroft?

Other directors and actors were considered or offered the jobs as 20th Century Fox worked on pre-production of “The Sound of Music.”

Here are the cast and director, and the people who might have taken their places.
» Maria, played by Julie Andrews

Others considered: Doris Day, Audrey Hepburn, Shirley Jones, Anne Bancroft, Leslie Caron, Angie Dickinson

FULL story at link.