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Dec 10, 2022 · Updated December 12, 2022. The 1965 film told the story of the musical von Trapp family that fled the Nazis in Austria, but there were a few key points that Hollywood either changed or left out entirely. George Konig/Keystone Features/Getty Images The real-life von Trapp family in London circa 1950.
Mar 2, 2015 · The names and ages of the real von Trapp children were changed for the film. In actuality, the eldest von Trapp child was not 16-going-on-17-year-old Liesl, but Rupert, who was born in 1911...
Feb 6, 2015 · The at times uncomfortable relationship between reality and what the movie has wrought is something that Johannes, his nine brothers and sisters and his parents long grappled with. The youngest of...
Oct 21, 2021 · A funeral home confirmed Lorli von Trapp Campbell died Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021, in Northfield, Vt. Craig Line/AP. STOWE, Vt. (AP) — The second daughter of Maria von Trapp, whose Austrian family...
Nov 16, 2017 · The real-life von Trapp family. Maria is seated in the middle holding a baby. Library of Congress. “In the mid-1930s the family began singing German and liturgical music under the tutelage of...
Jul 16, 2020 · Maria von Trapp was best known for performing with the Trapp Family Singers in the 1930s and '40s. Her memoir was the basis for the ‘The Sound of Music’ musical and film.
Plot. At a Nonnberg Abbey in Austria in the 1930s, a spirited novice named Maria ( Ruth Leuwerik) is sent by her abbess to the estate of a widowed Austro-Hungarian Navy war hero, Baron von Trapp ( Hans Holt ), to look after his seven unruly children.
