Formative Performances: Julie Andrews in “The Sound of Music”

[The following is a guest post from abovethetitle.]

And now I should be caught up. In keeping with Lady T’s choice of Dame Julie for “Mary Poppins,” I’m going with Dame Julie for far and away the single most influential movie of my childhood, “The Sound of Music.” I don’t think there is any movie I watched more often. Not even “The Wizard of Oz.” I can do nearly every line verbatim. Obviously I can sing every lyric to every song.

YouTube doesn’t have the clip of her on the hill but frankly, if you haven’t seen it, you should be ashamed of yourself and you should go buy the movie on DVD right now. It is an American classic. It is schmaltz and sentimentality of the best kind.