Ernest Lehman

A Madison Avenue ad executive is mistaken for a spy by foreign agents, and goes on the run across the United States.

This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.

Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, the spirited young woman who leaves the convent to become a governess to the seven young children of Captain von Trapp, an autocratic widower whose strict household rules leave no room for music or merriment.

Recounts the story of Maria, a young woman who leaves her Austrian convent to become governess to the Trapp family children at the beginning of World War II.