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Featuring dresses worn by everyone from Audrey Hepburn and Lauren Bacall to Reese Witherspoon and Sarah Jessica Parker ...
Maria (Julie Andrews) teaches the von Trapp children the notes to sing in “The Sound of Music.” The film is returning to Carolina Theatre for one day in June as part of a 60th anniversary ...
Pope Leo, please give the Swiss Guard new uniforms It’s high time the Catholic Church rectified this sartorial sin.
Donald Trump wore a navy blue suit at Pope Francis's funeral, defying the Vatican's black dress code. This Saturday, April 26, the funeral of Pope Francis took place in St. Peter’s Square. He died ...
It’s just a 10-minute toddle from baroque Schloss Mirabell, where Maria teaches the von Trapp kids to sing Do-Re-Mi in The Sound of Music, and the banks of the Salzach, the fast-flowing river ...
In Salzburg, Austria last spring, I skipped around the fountain outside Mirabell Palace. Others did too. Some 60 years earlier, Maria and the von Trapp children danced around the palace's Pegasus ...
Leopoldskron Palace was used as the von Trapp family home in "The Sound of Music." Remember when Maria and all the children capsized their boat?
Nealy 60 years later, the Oscar-winning movie continues to be a beloved classic — and it all began with the 1949 memoir of Maria von Trapp, the real-life matriarch of the von Trapp family.
However, in real life, the von Trapps were a singing group before Maria von Trapp came into their lives. What the movie did get right was that the von Trapps did win the Salzburg Music Festival.
Maria von Trapp: nun, singer, mother, refugee... and the inspiration for The Sound of Music. The life of von Trapp was heroic, shocking, tragic, and almost unbelievable. It seems fairly safe to ...
In 1965’s The Sound of Music, a thunderstorm sends the spooked von Trapp children into the room of their new governess, Fräulein Maria (Julie Andrews), who calms them with a song about her ...