The Sound of Music is based off the real life family, the von Trapps. The musical group toured the world singing and ...

The von Trapp Family Singers performed across the globe until their final performance in 1955 When The Sound of Music ...

Maria and the von Trapp family were actually real people, and they really did escape Austria as the Nazi Party rose to power. They also settled in Vermont and established a lodge, according to the ...

Maria Augusta Kutschera was born in January ... in real life, the fortunes of the von Trapp family had faltered during the global depression of the early 1930s to the extent that, at the time ...

In time, free-spirited Maria connects with her young charges and eventually Captain von Trapp through her love of music, even setting up the von Trapp family choir. Long after her fellow nuns ...

Fitzpatrick's mother, Jean, was close friends with Maria Von Trapp, and the Von Trapp family took many trips to Middle Georgia, long before "The Sound of Music" made them a household name.

Captain Georg von Trapp, commander of an Austrian submarine, came home from the War to his family castle near Salzburg. There he and his buxom wife, Frau Maria Augusta, settled down to the serious ...

She meets locals with memories of Maria Von Trapp and discovers her astonishing drive and determination that drove the family to become a travelling singing troop living on a tour bus for 22 weeks ...

The film, based on the Broadway musical of the same name, which itself was based on the true story of Maria von Trapp and the Trapp Family Singers, is one of Andrews’s most memorable.

Despite having contended with such issues, Maria ended up living until the grand age of 99. Following her death in 2014, family friend Marianne Dorfer, who runs the von Trapp Villa Hotel ...