#3. "The Sound of Music"

U.S. box office (inflation-adjusted): $1,231,893,000

Smart Rating: 93.36
Release year: 1965
Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker

A tuneful, heartwarming story, "The Sound of Music" is based on the real life story of the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world's best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II. Julie Andrews plays the role of Maria, the tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey who becomes a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.