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Los Angeles - Even Julie Andrews can barely believe it, but the classic movie The Sound of Music is 45-years-old and celebrations are in full swing with a new DVD and Blu-ray release this week.
Andrews, now 75, who played the mischievous nun turned governess to the von Trapp family in the Oscar-winning 1965 musical, reminisced with Reuters about the movie, the landmark cast reunion on The Oprah Winfrey TV show, and her busy life nowadays.
She cannot believe it was 45 years ago, "No! This time I felt like I lost a decade somewhere.. 35 years, I can believe. 45 years? Surely you jest!"
"You can say it's the children or the music or the mountains, but I think there is a quality of joy and optimism that rides over the whole film, and I think that as much as anything is what has helped it to last so long."
Her most enduring memories of making are of "many places, how generous the Austrian people were, how beautiful the scenery was, and how much it rained when we were there!."
Fans can expect "an enormous amount of new stuff in the Blu-ray edition... out-takes and news items, my meeting the real Maria von Trappon" on the new DVD and remastered Blu-ray release?
Julie Andrews and her daughter are in a book writing venture.
"I am doing book signings next week on the third book in our Little Bo series for children - 'Little Bo in Italy".
I've been 11 years working with my daughter and we have written 26 books for kids of all ages. It has been a joy to work on that book collection. We have different strengths. I do ideas, openings and closings and she does the nuts and bolts.
We love writing together. We weren't sure if we would be compatible because we are both fairly strong, bossy ladies. But we have a ball doing it."
Andrews says "there is talk about another concert, possibly early next year. A couple of my books are being developed for the theatre and I hope very much I will be able to direct them because that is something I am moving towards."
