The Sound of Music Stars Share Their Special Memories About the Making of the Musical Masterpiece

Yahoo Entertainment writes:

Julie Andrews looked as serene as the breathtaking Austrian countryside as she spun around and sang the title song during the opening shots of The Sound of Music. As Maria von Trapp, she kept her cool, but events behind the scenes were actually a bit dizzying.

“A giant helicopter came at me sideways with a very brave cameraman hanging out [its] side,” Julie previously revealed to ABC’s 20/20. “Every time he went around me, the downdraft from the jets would fling me down into the grass.”

Her tenacity helped get the final shots, and that classic scene still thrills audiences 61 years later. In fact, the 1965 musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II remains the third-highest-grossing film of all time (after inflation adjustments).

“There is just a magic about it,” Angela Cartwright — who played Brigitta von Trapp — told Closer Weekly about the time-tested allure of its songs and story, in which Julie’s governess character falls in love with her Austrian employer (Christopher Plummer) as World War II looms.

Read the details of the von Tapp costars never-before-told stories here.