Julie Andrews turns 91 today. In 1965, when the US population was 194 million, how many tickets did The Sound of Music sell?
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142 million
About 142 million tickets, the third-most ever sold in North America after Gone with the Wind and Star Wars. Its first run lasted four and a half years and ended on Labor Day 1969, the longest first run any film had ever had at the time.
The real von Trapps left Austria by train to Italy, not on foot over the mountains. Maria wrote that she married the Captain for the children, not for love. They married in 1927, eleven years before the Nazis arrived, and kept touring as singers until 1955.
The Sound of Music sold 142 million tickets in the US, back when the country had 194 million people.
Source: Box Office Mojo (domestic gross); Wikipedia (admissions estimate and US release history); US Census Bureau 1965 estimate · checked Sep 2026