is the original movie a true story?
Yes - but some parts of the story were altered
The Sound of Music
Details of the history of the von Trapp family were altered for the musical. The real Georg von Trapp did live with his family in a villa in Aigen, a suburb of Salzburg. He wrote to the Nonnberg Abbey in 1926 asking for a nun to help tutor his sick daughter, and the Mother Abbess sent Maria. His wife had died in 1922. The real Maria and Georg married at the Nonnberg Abbey in 1927. Lindsay and Crouse altered the story so that Maria was governess to all of the children, whose names and ages were changed, as was Maria's original surname (the show used "Rainer" instead of "Kutschera"). The von Trapps spent some years in Austria after Maria and the Captain married and he was offered a commission in Germany's navy. Since von Trapp opposed the Nazis by that time, the family left Austria after the "Anschluss", going by train to Italy and then traveling on to London and the United States. To make the story more dramatic, Lindsay and Crouse had the family, soon after Maria's and the Captain's we
where was opening scene of sound of music filmed Mehlweg mountain in Bavaria, Germany what is the storyline of this film? A young Austrian postulant in Salzburg   who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children. After bringing love and music into the lives of the family, she marries the officer and finds a way to survive the loss of their homeland to the Nazis. who were the actors cast in this film? Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn and Eleanor Parker. how did the first actor mentioned above, debut in films? Andrews, a child actress and singer, appeared in the West End in 1948 and made her Broadway debut in "The Boy Friend" (1954), and in 1952 she voiced Princess Zeila in the Italian animated film "The Singing Princess". Andrews made her feature film debut in "Mary Poppins" (1964)
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The Sound of Music [SEP] History
After viewing "The Trapp Family", a 1956 West German film about the von Trapp family, and its 1958 sequel (""), stage director Vincent J. Donehue thought that the project would be perfect for his friend Mary Martin; Broadway producers Leland Hayward and Richard Halliday (Martin's husband) agreed. The producers originally envisioned a non-musical play that would be written by Lindsay and Crouse and that would feature songs from the repertoire of the Trapp Family Singers. Then they decided to add an original song or two, perhaps by Rodgers and Hammerstein. But it was soon agreed that the project should feature all new songs and be a musical rather than a play.