The Trapp Family Lodge provided a cozy winter getaway for my family of three, away from the higher-end ski resorts in Stowe, ...

16.The young actors who played the von Trapp ... 17.The puppets used by Maria and the von Trapp children were specially designed for the film. Bill and Cora Baird, the puppeteers, worked hand ...

Released in 1965, the film tells the story of Maria (Julie Andrews), a flighty young nun who is sent to work as a governess ...

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 ...

I was beyond thrilled. Tears of joy,” Aniyah Mendez said, remembering the day she found out she would have the role of Maria ...

In 1930s Austria, a young woman named Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When Navy Captain Georg Von Trapp writes to the abbey asking for a governess that can handle his ...

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 ...

From the hills of the opening scene to the mountain over which they escape, here’s how to follow in the footsteps of the von Trapp family in real life.

Rosmarie Trapp, the daughter of Georg von Trapp and Maria Augusta Kutschera — whose ... her seven older half-siblings as well as her two younger siblings. The von Trapp family fled their home ...

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 ...

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 ...

led by Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) and governess turned stepmother Maria (Julie Andrews), successfully escaping the Nazis. But in real life, the family's story didn't end after leaving ...