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Behind The Scenes With The Von Trapp Family
Who could resist a girl like Maria?
Certainly not Captain von Trapp or his seven adorable children. “The Sound of Music” has long been an iconic movie musical, well-known and loved around the world. Countless children – and adults – have sung its catchy tunes and dreamed of a happily-ever-after that mimics Maria’s. They have gone on to convert photos to digital, a way to share movie memories with a whole new generation of fans online. In this picture, a beaming Julie Andrews sings to the children she is charged with caring for, stealing the show with her radiant portrayal of Maria.
In the movie, Maria arrives at the Von Trapp family home to serve as governess to the kids (their father, the captain, is a widower). The film continues to be a beloved classic today, but it turns out the true story behind it is just as interesting, if not more.
The real-life Maria actually was hired by the captain to tutor his sick daughter, also named Maria, who had been stricken with scarlet fever. But because filmmakers felt having two characters named Maria would confuse moviegoers, they changed the daughter’s name – and also the names, ages and genders of the other children.
In her eponymous autobiography, Maria von Trapp shares that she did not love Captain Georg von Trapp when she married him. It was his children she adored, though she later grew to love her husband deeply. They had three children together.
It turns out Maria and the von Trapp kids disapproved of the captain’s portrayal in the movie. He was not cold and distant, as the film would have you believe, but actually quite warm and doting. As for Maria, she wasn’t as sweet as the character portrayed by Julie Andrews, either. Also, the family did not travel to Switzerland but to Italy, and they made it no secret when they left for America.
Of course, such revelations don’t make the film any less entertaining. Thanks to technology, we can convert photos to digital to spread the rich appeal of the vocally talented von Trapp family, both on and off the big screen.
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