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Check here if you would like to receive subscription offers and other promotions via email from TIME group companies. 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? He is the youngest son of Georg and Maria - the decorated naval commander and singing nun turned governess of the film.
Johannes was a young recruit in the US army and applied for leave but was refused. I borrowed a car from a friend and I had to save my last dollar for the Holland tunnel to get across the Hudson River.
And it was very emotional and powerful. I remember at the wedding scene my mother got up from her chair and started walking towards the screen, she was so impacted. In real life the oldest von Trapp child was Rupert but in the film it's a girl, sixteen-year-old Liesl who falls in love with the boy who delivers telegrams, Rolfe. Johannes was born in - by then his mother and father had been married for 12 years and had already had two children together, to add to the seven that the widowed Captain von Trapp had from his first marriage.
In the film the couple marry in and as Johannes says: "It was quite tough enough with seven kids for the movie company. The von Trapp children also already played music before Maria came to their home as a governess. But it was another important figure in their life, the priest, Father Franz Wasner, who was instrumental in their musical success, touring with them in Europe and America.
She never returned to the abbey and married the Captain on November 26th, Book your tour now. Original photography from Maria von Trapp as a child. Want to see more? The German producers then sold the rights to a team of producers who worked with songwriters Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein to create the Broadway musical The Sound of Music.
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