Do you love "The Sound of Music," the award-winning movie musical released in 1965? Well, you might love it even more when you learn the true story behind the Julie Andrews classic. Maria and the ...

This Morning viewers were left gobsmacked on Friday as they were reunited with two of the original The Sound of Music cast ...

But what many don’t know is that the film is based on the real-life matriarch Maria von Trapp and her family. How accurate is The Sound of Music in comparison to the real von Trapp family ...

It was Kristina von Trapp Frame. She’s Maria von Trapp’s granddaughter and the Lodge’s director. If the name Maria von Trapp doesn’t ring any abbey bells, you’re probably reading the ...

17.The puppets used by Maria and the von Trapp children were specially designed for the film. Bill and Cora Baird, the ...

1.First, Julie Andrews was always at the top of the list for the role of Maria von Trapp. According to The Sound of Music: The Making of America's Favorite Musical, writer Ernest Lehman said ...

von Trapp (otherwise known as Christopher Plummer), step-grandson of Maria (Julie Andrews). He had grown up in Vermont with a bunch of cousins, and ultimately decided the atmosphere and the real ...

Maria von Trapp rolled her eyes again, and everyone laughed. Anyone who knows anything knows that “da MO-vie” that is “The Sound of Music” isn’t the true story of the nun who marries a ...

Rosmarie Trapp, the daughter of Georg von Trapp and Maria Augusta Kutschera — whose family inspired the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music — has died. She was 93.