The truth about the Sound of Music family

BBC ^ | 3/1/2015 | Louise Hidalgo

[Borges]

When it was released 50 years ago, The Sound of Music became one of the most successful films of all time. It was based on the true story of the von Trapp family (above) - but what did they think of it and was their life really like it was portrayed in the movie?

"Everyone thinks the Sound of Music was exactly the way things happened, and of course it wasn't because there had to be artistic licence," says Johannes von Trapp. He is the youngest son of Georg and Maria - the decorated naval commander and singing nun turned governess of the film.

[Hardens Hollow]

LOL! And weather those cute little outfits. Now, what were they called....

[Hawthorn]

>> Germans do tend to yodel <<

And what does that have to do with this thread?

The Trapps were Austrians and, in my experience, Austrians get very unhappy if you call them Germans.

[FredZarguna]

I never thought people went around singing happily on mountain tops.

Like anything else, it's a matter of proper motivation. This was the scene for many of us when the Feinstein Report on CIA interrogation was published:

[FredZarguna]

Austrians get very unhappy if you call them Germans.

Especially if you call them Germans in Austrian.

[Zeneta]

What if you call them Australians?

[fatnotlazy]

My brother, an avid skier, stayed several times at the Von Trapp lodge and became well acquainted with Mrs. Von Trapp and some of the children. He described Mrs. Von Trapp as a feisty, but lovely woman inside and out.

[Hawthorn]

>> Imagine Julie Andrews singing and dancing on a mountain top <<

Yep, she’s way too old for that sort of thing.

But you can be sure that Lady Gaga would accept the gig!

[Borges]

No dramas. plays, movies, novels are historically accurate. They all take license.

[stylin19a]

first musicals, then gladiator movies, then....

[Hardens Hollow]

lederhosen, that was it!

[Hardens Hollow]

You are lovely, Fred. Silly bangs, but lovely!

[Hardens Hollow]

“Austrians get very unhappy if you call them Germans.”

Was that before or after they invited Hitler in to play?

[FredZarguna]

I’m not sure where people like him get the idea that we are so stupid.

Won the popular vote in 2000:

Won the popular vote in 2008 and 2012:

[miss marmelstein]

Oh, dear God! I made a booboo. Perhaps all the yodelers I’ve seen were really Austrians.

[RedMDer]

Answer; Donate to Free Republic! LOL!

[rabidralph]

Mine, too.

[hlmencken3]

Or Swiss.

[Alex Murphy]

Again with this sort of thing. "Everyone thinks the Sound of Music was exactly the way things happened" Actually Johannes, nobody does. 

And the spaceships in Star Wars could really go into space, too!

[FredZarguna]

Fair dinkum?

[miss marmelstein]

Or just silly.