Movies - TV
The Sound Of Music Led To Some Of Hollywood’s All-Time Biggest Flops
By WITNEY SEIBOLD
In the mid-1960s, "The Sound of Music," made $285 million on an $8.2 million budget and won Oscars. A recently dead genre seemed to be reborn, and studios immediately wanted more.
Instead, studios saw multiple box office failures as Hollywood misguidedly tried to recapture the "Sound of Music" magic. Some were the biggest bombs of all time.
Paramount trotted out notable turkeys like George Sidney's "Half a Sixpence," Vincente Minnelli's "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever," and Blake Edwards' "Darling Lili."
Disney wasn't free of trends, and put out their notorious stinker "The Happiest Millionaire." Universal released "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Sweet Charity."
For Fox, 1967's "Doctor Dolittle" was another horrid stinker, costing the studio $17 million. The $25 million fiasco "Hello, Dolly!" is still infamous to this day.