. >> julie andrews returns 50 years later for the untold story of the sound of music. here from that famous mountain top, diane sawyer. >> tonight we take ow knowa amazing journey on the famous foot of the alps. 50 years later you can still hear the sound of music. come with us now to the ancient town with the towering castle. at the foot of the mountain and the rolling river. it's where my child was born and 150,000 people live. 6.5 million tourists arrive here

every year and most are in search of the story that reminds you to find your own dream. families coming to reenact the joyful song. ♪ >> you see fans imagining themselves inside their favorite scene. you know, the ones that lift the heart. on the sound of music tour buses, young and old dress as their favorite character, singing along. ♪ from all over the planet to that little gazebo where they were 16 going on 17. and there is someone else who arrived. the actress with the astonishing voice, the luminous face, 50 years later, julie andrews, 79,

meets up with us by a terrace by a river filled with so many memories. >> is it pretty? >> this was actually my favorite location. >> her favorite location in a movie this house was used as a set for the home. a place where a high spirited nun frees seven children from rule. they go canoeing and excited when their father comes home. that's what i remember after falling in love with the movie long ago. julie andrews remembers something else. what's really happening outside the frame. watch these rarely seen home movies shot by the parents of the children. >> the music and could you fall forward from the boat and get in as quickly as possible. >> i said well yes and i go

backwards, not forward. the boat was rocking. you can see your feet disappearing. >> well, yes, and people were diving in together. she was very brave. >> you did four takes. four times they have to fall in the water, dry off, fall again. behind the scenes we see julie andrews huddled in towels and a bucket used for retake. >> they kept putting it down. >> all this work and craft began to shape a message about courage. choosing hope even when your life gets hard. a message that went across every generation. 50 years later -- >> it's unbelievable. i do not know where the last 20 years went. i could believe 30, but not 50. it's a joke. >> the sound of music is not just about being joyful.

it's about achieving joy. it's about -- >> finding joy, yeah. >>. ♪ what will my future be ♪ i wonder >> the work on the film had actually begun months earlier in hollywood. >> three months of rehearsal. >> yes. >> laying down the song. >> everything. >> by the time the director saw this 250 people to austria, they were ready to work dsix days a week. >> getting your hair colored repeatedly all the time. i thought i detected different colors. >> maybe you did. maybe the highlights would be great. the highlights came out kind of orange. they decided don't forget that. be blond all over. >> here is a rare piece of video

out of the vault. listen. >> every morning you greet me ♪ >> this is the real singing voice of christopher palmer singing himself. ♪ >> now listen to the sound from the final movie -- >> every morning you greet me ♪ he has the voice of a professional singer they brought in to help strengthen his voice. >> clean and bright ♪ >> every scene in the movie so difficult as it had been sketch and timed in hollywood and no scene more arduous they tried to shoot high up in the alps on the mountain filled with music. tourists searched for it, but it's not listed in the guide books. we set out to find it and take you there. >> we heard it's out of town. you can't find it on any google

map. don't bother trying. >> we drive west six miles later. we actually leave austria and cross out of germany. the point is in every direction and no mention of the famous ill. as we climb, our ears are popping. >> wow. the cows have to mean something, right? >> the land here is privately owned by farmers so reluctant to let outsiders in, the movie studio has to pay them to let cameras up the path. >> here we go. >> halfway up, sheep. >> can you hear the chimes? hello. >> we keep going. it's steep and a little gooey from rain. okay. wow. is this it? is this it? here we are. the view, exactly as it was a

half century ago. though one thing is very different for us. on the day we arrived -- >> it was a beautiful day today, it was not 50 years ago. in fact it was rain. it was wind. the temperatures in the 50s. everyone was freezing. they only had the sun come out for about 20 minutes to get that shot. >> turns out beautiful austria is the 11th rainiest country on earth. >> so i went to your mountain. >> i want to know how you did that? >> how i got up there? >> the rained a lot. >> freezing cold and waiting for the clouds to part? >> we went up the mountain in big open carts pulled by oxen. i would sit on top of the camera equipment and they hoisted me up and up we would go. >> spoiler alert. skip this part if you only want the movie magic in your head. if you look closely, the sky is

clear blue for a wide shot and the shot in the meadow, you can see clouds closing in. at times, the grass is yellow, but in the dvd, they paint it green. and the birch trees? >> if you are looking for the birch trees, you will not find them. they were brought in for the scene and taken back out. something else you won't find is the brook with the water that trips and falls over stones on the way. that was brought in by the movie studio. plastic filled with water. and vanished. and do you remember the scene where she is running back to the abby? she picks up her clothes and goes in this direction. this is steep. this is not easy. >> that day we were shooting on the mountain, we were lucky. we had small silent drones getting the shot. in 1965, julie andrews was doing battle with a helicopter that

kept blowing up a tornado of wind. >> this giant helicopter came at me sideways with a brave cameraman hanging out the side. where the door would be normally. the helicopter was shoot me and i would come from one end and he came from the other. i would make that big turn. then he would go around me to go back and start again and i would go to the other end. every time he went around me, the downdraft from the jets would bring me down into the grass. >> i heard that occasionally you cursed like a sailor. >> i do. i do and i did. >> quiet, please. >> somehow, out of that duel with the helicopter, the nine takes, the long hours and the cold, in 20 minutes of sunshine, the giant speakers up in the trees began playing that music. >> it was suddenly released from waiting and waiting. i don't know. the huge truth.

>> for all of us, the indelible moment celebrating the simple joy of being young and alive. ♪ the hills are alive with the sound of music ♪ ♪ with songs they have sung for a thousand years ♪ >> next, what well-known movie star was considered for the role of maria and the secrets behind do re mi when we come back. on earth. and as new as tomorrow. you can have a yard. or slightly less. gardening isn't about where we choose to live. it's about how we choose to live. miracle-gro.

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>> once again, diane sawyer.

>> do, a deer, a female deer ♪ >> here it is, one of the songs children can sing pretty much everywhere around the planet. it is called the first music video. a 28-year-old woman, seven children singing through nine locations as the music recorded before blasted out of the speakers, listen to the director making sure they land this big moment on the precision beat. originally do re mi was titled first singing lesson and there were 7s and every beat of music timed exactly so they had to pedal fast or drop behind. it took two months of rehearsal. a kind of decathlon. we didn't continue, but only three of the children had ever been in movies before.

in a sense like the story on screen, julie andrews was teaching them how to find their confidence. >> i felt an obligation to help them get their close ups. i would seitease them off camerr get them used to it. >> i think they asked me to. >> congratulations. you can do it. >> julie andrews knee a lot about being a gifted child trying to find her way. a sensitive girl given a once in a century voice. just listen. >> how old are you? >> i am 12. >> what are you going to use? >> ♪ >> that note, a phenomenon, an impossibly clear high f. she had the audiences cheering,

unaware of the broken places inside that little girl. when she was small, her mother left her and her father. then returned with another man and a house full of alcohol, anger and disappointment. she said as a child, she couldn't sing sad songs without crying. >> no, i could not. >> she said at some point dread got planted in your soul because you had seen how quickly. >> things disintegrate. yeah. i was lucky because i had an identity and that was my singing voice. i think if i hadn't had that gift, i would have been a lost and extremely confused or lonely little girl. >> she stopped school at 15, but kept singing and helped support her mother and stepfather. right before the sound of music, she had become a big star on broadway, including my fair lady. she was also a big star on tv.

this is a special with carol burnett and ironically the two of them ridiculed with another broadway show called the sound of music. >> i never dreamed i was one day going to be asked to do the sound of music. how could i possibly have known? >> i'm mama. >> i'm papa. >> we are the happy family. we bring you a happy song i used to sing when i was happy. >> and carol with cynthia. >> i'm cynthia. >> for all her fame when they were casting the sound of music, movie audiences had never seen her. she shot two films and they hadn't been released. a certified movie goddess, grace kelly was vying for the part and someone else was a logical choice too. >> true or not true.

they were looking at doris day? >> she was the great star of the day that sang. how lucky can i get? >> they decided to choose this newcomer to the film. instead of sean connery or richard burton. look at the tape for the role of leasele. recognize her? >> i am 16 going on 17 ♪ that's mia farrow trying out. kurt russell, richard dreyfus and some of the brothers tried out and were rejected. the director brought together a group of relative unknowns in austria to make a musical no guarantee of success. >> one of the smarter children lost her two front teeth. they are ready with substitute.

one grew six inches in six months. they used boxes to make her look taller. something about these children invited four generations of kids watching the film to imagine themselves as part of a household too. everyone is saying -- >> i want her to be my mother. >> i want julie andrews as my mother. >> for they only knew, poor soul. >> busy showing the children what a voice coach said. amateurs practice until they get it right. professionals practice until they can't go wrong. feel where they are taking you. ♪ >> at the end of the song, follow it, follow it. all the way down the road. >> and then stop.

>> the kids said the most amazing things. they said that they never saw you make a mistake? >> what? >> yeah. >> that gets her alone. >> and the 50th anniversary dvd has more photos from behind the scenes. >> photos that show the works that eventually produced the perfection of songs like do re mi. towards the end, they entered the gardens of the palace and we decided to go there too. the sound of music pilgrims are arriving. you americans? >> canadians. >> what song is sung here? >> do re mi? >> what song is sung at the gazebo. >> 16 going on 17. >> we're asked them if they would like to make the video doing the fountain dance. >> we will try it and see if we can get it.

the best i remember it, here we go. we will go, left foot first? do a deer, a female deer ♪ ♪ ray, a drop of golden sun. me a name i call myself ♪ ♪ la, a long, long way to run. >> don't make it too hard. >> finally, we are off. >> do a deer, a female deer. ray a drop of golden sun ♪ ♪ >> me a name i call myself ♪ ♪ fa a long, long way to run. >> do ray me fa.

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. >> i must have done something good ♪ >> 50 years ago two actors in a gazebo gave one of the most romantic scenes on film. the creators were going to call the story love song. in that same gazebo, another kind of love at 16. >> i am 16 going on 17 ♪ ♪ i know that i'm naive >> we went to find the gazebo that turns out to be very small.

>> one, two, three arm spans. >> how did they do this? they built a bigger gazebo in hollywood. the making of the movie began here. the two lead actors in real life seemed like polar opposites. the gracious 28-year-old julie andrews and the 34-year-old christopher plumber known as a shakespearean actor who was wary of doing the movie. the rumor is he was drinking a little bit. >> the plummer said he was lit. >> could have fooled me. i didn't know. >> it drove me to drink. >> christopher palmer, now 85 as he looks back at that moment long ago. >> i remembered having to wait for hours before the shooting of the song. we were out in the cold.

it was quite cold. >> and another spoiler alert about the reality inside that favorite romantic scene. when he and julie andrews arrived for the moment, they were so tire and so weary and had to stand so close and sing -- >> we were that close on the screen. i said come on. it's not possible. we both started giggling. >> you can almost see it here? >> what else does the reverent mother say? >> the giggles went on and on and the electrical lights began to grown. >> they started to rub against each other and every time we started a take? >> the series of squeaks and belches and other things. it sounded like a comment on our acting. >> we went for lunch and came

back completely sober and started a take and there it was again. >> the director stepped in. he said we will move you into a silhouette by the door and you can laugh all you want. >> an unexpected film duo becoming friends. both their marriages were dissolving and his solution was to play piano and drink. hers, tony walton was working. she was alone in the hotel room with her daughter, emma. >> i was not terribly happy at the time. quite lonely. tony was working and our marriage was rocky. i was there and i did have emma, but i was so busy. i literally was almost in every shot just about. >> did you have a crush on christopher plummer? >> we were never an item, as they say, but now we are the best of friends. we became the best of friends. that's lovely. probably because we were not.

>> we should have ended up together. we should have had a huge smashing affair. there was no time. it was most inconvenient. >> she said mainly she was naive like the girl on screen. >> i was such a twit. i grew up very late and i knew so little, it seemed. i am shy and you are too, it seemsment both of us on camera as we speak. >> believe that, if you will. >> the seasoned dramatic actor worked to get her ready for the famous fight. >> i will not forgive you for that. >> people cannot do what they are supposed to do if they have to worry. >> she was not an angry girl. i doubt if she ever lost her temper. >> you have to hear from someone. >> i don't want to hear any more from you. >> i know you don't, but you have got to. >> if you can film one scene again for the pleasure of it.

>> for the pleasure. when chris and i were dancing, there was a beautiful shot when we passed the camera and really saw the sweep of the dance. that's a glorious moment. >> it is a real austrian folk dance filled with yearning. >> and the other one is when he is standing in the hall way and i'm climbing the stairs feeling sore for myself. he said -- >> i want you to stay. i ask you to stay. >> she goes up the stairs very happy. i loved that moment. >> last week when we went to see plummer who was a classical pianist, he said he had seen the movie again not long ago and put it into a song where he recognized. ♪

the unsentimental star grateful to be part of the strange story and remembering how captivating she was. on another of the freezing cold days, they went to shoot the wedding in the cathedral outside of the city. >> here we are. somehow the thing i remember most is the way the church was lit. you could see through each. >> 50 years ago what was the unseasoned young movie actress thinking -- >> more than anything, i know it's ridiculous, i must walk as gracefully as possible and i must be as calm as possible and when i see christopher, i did stretch my handout to great love. >> we asked her if she would like to walk it one more time? >> i don't have the beautiful vail and the beautiful gown.

>> you have your memory. >> i do. do i ever. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> next, for the first time -- julie andrews goes inside the real home of the real maria as

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>> now back to austria for the 50th anniversary of the sound ever music. >> julie andrews and i are traveling in a car to see something she has never seen before. hard to believe the movie shoots were on sets and locations and she didn't have time to drive outside and see the real house where the real maria arrived. >> you have never been to this house? >> no, i have never seen it. >> we are looking for clues about the real girl who left the abby. she was an orphan since she was 9 and then a foster child and went to the abby and arrived at the villa in 1926. we know how she looked the day she arrived. one of the children sketched her. the dress, the real movie that she was wearing that day and this is the dress in the movie. >> and the dialogue actually says where did you get it from? i said all of them were gone.

>> what about this one? >> it's more than this one. >> finally we pull up to the gate. >> here it is. what did you think? >> this is the real house that had 29 rooms when the young maria walked up to the door. >> hello! >> now a small hotel. >> this is the original staircase. >> do you remember in the movie, the staircase is sweeping in two dimensions. this is the real scare case where the real children came coming down the bannister, head first. no wonder their father used a whistle. >> we had a similar vehicle here. >> the children could go out and play on 8.6 acres. >> doctor the strange boifterrous nan whoa said she was kind of a tom boy. no one had taught her manners, but she loved singing.

this is the diming room where they gathered together. listen to their real sound.ing they gathered together. listen to their real sounning r they gathered together. listen to their real sound.it's a song about oust ri. it was just over a year after her arrival when she married a man 24 years her senior. the real wedding stress inspiring the one in the film. in real life, the barron was kind and gentle and loved his country more than his life. he put his giant fortune into an austrian bank to try to stabilize it before the war. the bank and his money disappeared. then in 1938, the nazi troops and just as we saw in the film, when they asked the barron to

have a submarine for them, he refused. they wanted to put up a flag on the house. he refused. it was the act seen on the radio for hitler's birthday, they defind defiantly said no. it was time to flee. you remember how they make that escape in the film. the nazis are sitting in the audience as the family slips away after a performance. >> they're gone! >> then they climb over a mountain to freedom. though it may surprise you that the real life escape of the real family was very different. >> we are leaving my house as they would have left at 6:00 in the morning. >> 6:00 in the morning, each child gathers a nap sack and a suitcase. maria is about months pregnant. their path out was easier. no hiking over a mountain. they walked a short distance

through the garden to this train station five minutes away. freedom and the unknown. when the real family arrived in america, they had only $4 to their name. a buck, their prayers and their song. >> she was amazing and brave. i wonder how she came down to view us showing her life. to watch us. >> there was a tiny moment where you can see maria in the movie of her life. there with her, a daughter and granddaughter. watch maria. later she appeared on julie andrews's television show. >> how was i? >> how were you? >> yes. >> you. >> you were absolutely wonderful. >> she did have a quibble.

the yodelling. the real maria shows how it's done. ♪ ♪ ♪ another song from the mountains of her beloved austria. where the movie captures the courage of a family. forced to leave the country they love. where they walked high in the alps, there is a rugged flower that somehow clings to the rocks and survives in the wind and the snow. the last song lyricist oscar hemmer stein wrote before he died of cancer. everyone who still dreams that was place they called home. >> and the last word of the song is forever. >> that's my homeland, forever.

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>> we continue with the untold story of the sound of music. once again, diane sawyer. >> march, 1965, the sound of music premiers in new york city. at the time the country is

grappling with vietnam. they called it a sugar coated right. the audience smoke for itself and made it the highest grossing movie musical of all time. >> did you know people would need this film? >> none of us could have predicted the success of that movie. >> what about the vibrant children in the movie. where are they? 50 years after the groundbreaking film, they are a little bit older as you can see in the photos. then and now. now practicing professions that range from software engine to interior designer. using the singing to a new generation of former children coming forward to pay tribute. >> carrie underwood singing it on in a lower key. then at the oscars, lady gaga practicing six months to sing the high notes of julie andrews.

♪ the hills fill my heart with the sound of music ♪ >> andrews walked out, the surprise audience gave her a standing ovation. gaga shaking so hard you can see julie asking are you okay? the woman who made these songs famous knows the notes herself. in june 1997, she had a problem in her throat. strained from performing so long on broadway. it was supposed to be a simple proceed tower correct. when it was over, her singing voice was gone. >> you sang the movie. you sang in the princess diaries. >> very, very lightly and briefly. >> dear little girl, you are terribly dressed but with your heart of gold i loved the best ♪ >> i didn't have a voice, but it was nice for a second. i got some bass notes still

because i had that miserable operation chi can't talk about. >> it's part of a legal settlement. >> i have about five bass notes. i can do a good blues song or a version of old man river. >> huh to wrestle with depression. >> i did. >> she had four additional surgeries and began to write children's books with her daughter, emma, now all grown up. she was struggling. >> i was carrying on and wallowing in my misery one day. we had began writing stories and she said mom, you found a different way of using your voice. it was a great weight that dropped from my shoulders. >> it's not bitter sweet to say i top the hit that note again. >> that i do. notes, yes. high notes, yes. the octave they go, would i like

to do that? yes. i probably wouldn't be seen these days anyway. i'm very old and voices get a little tired, but i would like to have a go at it. i really would. >> when we were leaving, i headed towards the real abby where maria gave ourselves to god. today fewer than two dozen nuns still live inside. >> this is the current who comes out to meet me and shows the roof where maria would sing to her mountains. >> what did you think of the sound of music? >> i like it. yes, i like it. >> then they told me something else. i think i hear her use the phrase sour. did she say something turtled?

the milk. >> i asked them what they didn't like about the movie. how the movie was. >> climb every mountain ♪ >> when she heard her screaming, she saw the milk get sour. >> she sings it better. >> i sing it better. >> this nun decided her songs are only for god. she tells me about the central truth at the heart of the film. only you know what's in your heart. >> you live the life you were born to live. >> it's never too late to walk out the gate and find your dream. >> it's forever. >> what is forever? >> it's the joy of discovery, i think. the curiosity. thaujs god february thatment finding the joy of what's over the mountain. >> you will not believe where we

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>> so long, farewell ♪ >> all over the globe, people are singing the sound of music. on you tube, see them in italy, a stonia, arjen tina. even when i went to north korea, the sids sang it. north korea. ♪ they are singing it back stage at the opera. the renowned renee phlegming and a tribu and a tribute to julie.

>> kristin jen wits. they are singing it in stadiums of 18,000 people in los angeles. all-around the country kids belted out in the school auditori auditorium. so tonight please cent us your own tribute to the sound of music and go on abc news.com to learn julie andrews's true favorite things. don't forget that dvd is available now. you can be a short 50 years later, all of us here are singing with you. i'm diane sawyer, good night.

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