The real von Trapp children were, in age descending order: Rupert, Agathe, Maria, Werner, Hedwig, Johanna, and Martina. Onscreen, Rupert became Liesl, a 16-going-on-17-year-old girl. In real life ...

The group included Baroness Maria von Trapp and her daughters, Maria, Johanna, Agatha, Hedwig, Martina, Rosemary, and Eleanore, as well as their director Dr. Franz Wasner. For readers who have ...

They escaped successfully from Austria in 1938, and they lived the rest of their lives in the U.S. Missing from the movie was the fact that Frances Perkins aided this family of singers. The family and ...

In Climbed Every Mountain, Sue Perkins tells the astonishing true story behind the real Von Trapp family ... She meets locals with memories of Maria Von Trapp and discovers her astonishing ...

In the film, you can see this bridge when the Von Trapp children go out for the first time to town. My next “Sound of Music” location is Nonnberg Abbey, the oldest convent in the north of Alps (since ...

As avid fans of "The Sound of Music" already know, the real von Trapp family was a musical troupe that toured the world after their escape from Salzburg, Austria, in 1938. As the family business ...

Follow Maria's path from the abbey and enter the ... The original family villa stands in a secluded park on Traunstrasse 34. Once the real von Trapp's family's actual home, it was later turned ...

Mulberry St. Appearing were Baroness Maria Augusta von Trapp and her seven daughters. This was THE von Trapp family event which began our search. A review of their performance by Blanche Zink ...