Robert WiseYou probably know Robert Wise from his 1944 film The Curse of the Cat People. Okay, maybe not. No matter. He directed 38 other films in a career that lasted from 1944 to 1989 and include...

Ernest LehmanProud owner of six Oscar nominations (no wins, though), screenwriter Ernest Lehman worked with some of Hollywood's most famous directors. He specialized in adapting Broadway plays and...

20th Century FoxOne of the big-deal Hollywood film studios, 20th Century Fox dates its founding all the way back to 1915 as the Fox Film Corporation. The studio really found its mojo when it merged...

The Big Screen—Really BigAs TV became more common in American households, the studios needed a way to get audiences off their couches and into the theaters. New formats were developed to offer an...

Even if you don't know it, you know Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, the legendary guys who wrote the score for The Sound of Music. All those songs your parents and grandparents walk around h...

Considering that they run Sound of Music tours in Salzburg, and that anniversaries of the film's debut are marked by television specials, we'd say that love and fandom for the film run pretty deep....