Posted on 08/28/2014 9:17:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The original book that the movie is based on is worth reading and has a lot that did not make it into the movie.
Captain Georg von Trapp was born in what is now Zadar, Croatia, when it belonged to Austria. After 1918 Austria no longer had a sea coast which reduced their need for a navy.
A Hungarian battleship, the Szent Izvan, was sunk by Italian torpedo boats in 1918.
Hungarian Admiral Miklos Horthy went on to become ruler of an independent Hungary until 1944.
Remember jokes about the “Swiss Navy”? Well, truth is always stranger than fiction.
Anyway, the memory of the Von Trapp family will live on.
“Now society has gone full circle; “In 1938, the children said, we can’t sing any songs in school that have ‘Christ’ in them”. Sound familiar?”
Yes, very interesting.
My friends spent Christmas at the Von Trapp Lodge about 25 years ago...said it was wonderful...especially the sleigh rides at night in snow. Once in a life time for Texans from the Gulf Coast.
A few years ago, Mark Steyn in one of his yearly Christmas podcasts (could still be on his website) interviewed Maria and they discussed the family history.
It was very fun to listen to.
She and the Captain should have used it against the Nazi’s chasing them :)
VIDEO: JULIE ANDREWS INTERVIEWS THE REAL MARIA VON TRAPP...
CLICK HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Juaz5UI6gs
This one is Hammerstein.
My true favorite of theirs (I think I’m really a Hammerstein fan although many find Hart a bit more sophisticated) is Oklahoma! The movie is good, but it’s not the Sound of Music. Although I must say Shirley Jones is quite perfect as Laurie, I doubt she was ever better in anything and I doubt I’ll ever see anyone who can hold a candle to her in that part.
The Austrians beat the Italians in a naval battle in 1866 off the island of Vis (then called Lissa), during the Seven Weeks War. Despite that they had to cede territory to Italy in the peace treaty because Italy was an ally of Prussia which defeated Austria. Austria’s defeat in this war led to the transformation of the state into the “Dual Monarchy” to placate the Hungarians in 1867.
I was 15 when I seen the the movie.
I wished I could get the original German Movie but unfortunatly it is not available anymore :(
There also was a second movie that played in 1958 in the German theaters which I also saw
"Die Trapp Familie in Amerika
The Julie Andrews version did not include the second version.
“10” with Andrews and Dudley Moore is a classic, but not in the style of Poppins or TSOM.
They had written them backwards. It was Maria who was the mean, controlling parent (she locked away one of the daughters so she couldn’t meet a boyfriend). Georg was kind and fun-loving.
A-HA! Thank you for the explanation.
My sainted mother had high tea with Maria, the daughter. We all stayed at the Von Trapp Lodge. I met the son that was still alive then.
It’s ok. It was a little cultural phenom. I remember.
Made Ravel’s Bolero faddish.
Wasn’t Really a Jule Andrews film though.
Zara, Georg von Trapp’s birthplace became Italian after WWI and was absorbed by Yugoslavia after WWII.
Von Trapp was a submariner. During WWI his U-boat sank a French cruiser and an Italian submarine.
TSOM was the third film she was in. The 2nd was ‘The Americanization of Emily’
I didn’t know that until this conversation. Thanks.
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