Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, the stars of The Sound Of Music, have enjoyed a reunion for the 50th anniversary screening of the film.

The pair, who played governess Maria and Captain Georg von Trapp respectively in the 1965 musical movie, happily posed for pictures at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, ahead of a showing of the film’s remastered version for the TCM Classic Film Festival.

Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews
Christopher Plummer and Julie Andrews (Rich Fury/Invision)

Dame Julie, now 79, and her 85-year-old co-star discussed the film’s appeal, decades after it was released. The Sound Of Music is based on Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s 1959 Broadway musical.

“I don’t think anybody in the film industry could have imagined (its success). It could be a quality of joy, that it’s a family movie. It could be that it’s about love, it’s great adventure and it’s about family,” she said, according to the Daily Mail.

“I just wish sweet Robert Wise, our director, was here tonight but he is in spirit. His legacy is the movie itself.”

Julie Andrews as Maria (AP)
Julie Andrews as Maria (AP)

Christopher added: “We had such fun, beavering away all this time, trying to keep straight faces while singing close to each other’s faces.”

The Sound Of Music’s anniversary milestone was being honoured by 20th Century Fox with the release of a five-disc Blue-ray/DVD collection and a re-released soundtrack.