In The Sound of Music, Maria sings “My Favorite Things” to calm the children during a thunderstorm. The scene introduces the song as a comforting list of small pleasures that can push frightening thoughts aside.
The song was written by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, for the 1959 stage musical The Sound of Music. In the 1965 film, Julie Andrews performs it as Maria, using images such as warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages, and snowflakes to reassure the von Trapp children. The song's winter imagery later helped make it popular as a Christmas-season standard, even though it was not originally written as a Christmas song.
A frequent mix-up is “Do-Re-Mi,” another famous song Maria teaches the children, or “Climb Ev'ry Mountain,” which is sung by the Mother Abbess. “Edelweiss” is also from the musical, but it is performed by Captain von Trapp and the family near the film's conclusion.