When Maria arrives, she is initially met with the same hostility, but her kindness, understanding, and sense of fun soon draws them to her and brings some much-needed joy into all their lives – including the Captain’s. The children are unhappy and resentful of the governesses that their father keeps hiring, and have managed to run each of them off one by one. The Captain’s wife is dead, and he is often away, and runs the household as strictly as he does the ships he sails on. When Navy Captain Georg Von Trapp ( Christopher Plummer) writes to the convent asking for a governess that can handle his seven mischievous children, Maria is given the job. Synopsis: In 1930’s Austria, a young woman named Maria ( Julie Andrews) is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. Musical film directed in 1965 by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn, Eleanor Parker, Peggy Wood, Heather Menzies, Charmian Carr, Anna Lee, Marni Nixon…
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