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Baroness Maria von Trapp was played by Julie Andrews in the 1965 film The Sound of Music.

Sound of Music is/was a Broadway Play and later a movie. the lead actress in the play was generally Mary Martin and the movie version Julie Andrews. It is Not a short story and given complications of the plot could not have been.

Yes. Julie Andrews played the main part of Maria in the 1965 film The Sound of Music. The movie is based on a true story and Julie Andrews portrays Maria von Trapp, a young woman who wanted to become a nun, but never did because she fell in love with and married the father, Georg von Trapp, of the children she nannied.

The setting of the Sound of Music is in Austria in the 1930's, just before World War 2. The von Trapp family lived in a villa in Aigen, a suburb of Salzburg, Austria. Maria is a postulant at Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg.

Rogers and Hammerstein created, if that is the word, the PLAY from the saga of the Von Trapp family of Austria, circa l938,. the play, which I saw in l962 or so, while called a musical comedy is essentially devoid of the latter, excepting some very childish sight gags on the order of ( Hey there Hi There Ho thee) a la Mickey Mouse in the beginning. The play has one good angle of having a powerful anti-war message without recourse to Gunplay, missing bodies , incoming shells, or even air-raid sirens. the separation angst breaking up an intact family is a powerful argument not known to be used in ALLIED war-related films- excepting maybe Glenn Miller and that was made well after the WAR was won., Separation angst is more common as a plot device in songs-where it is usually temporary and hopeful- Please Mr. Postman, Concerto For Lovers, etc..Not necessarily war-oriented. ( All My Lovings was a mere business trip).

The von Trapp family is famous for appearing in "The Sound of Music." The movie is based on the real life of the von Trapp family. "The Sound of Music" starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.

Captain Von Trapp from the Sound of Music died in Vermont after being afflicted with lung cancer.

There are three boy characters in the Sound of Music. Kurt is 10 (almost 11), Friedrich is 14, and Rolf (who delivers the telegrams) is 17 - going on 18.

Climb Every Mountain

They escaped from Austria. They however did not escape the way that was depicted in the film. In real life they told friends they were going on a cruise to Italy and took a boat to the US. If they had escaped the way depicted in the film they would have walked right past Hitlers house.

In The Sound of Music, the Mother Abbess is the head of the convent and is played by Peggy Wood. Her subordinates are Sister Margaretta (Anna Lee) and Sister Berthe (Portia Nelson), the two sisters who argue Maria's merits. Wood was nominated for, but did not win, the 1966 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for this performance.

Daniel Truhitte

In the movie The Sound of Music, the song "16 going on 17" is sung by Leisl (Charmian Carr) and Rolfe (Daniel Truhitte) in the garden outside the family home. A huge thunderstorm ensues so the characters run to the gazebo where their well-known song-and-dance is performed. It is later reprised with Maria (Julie Andrews) and Leisl singing in the drawing room after Maria's return from her honeymoon.

The name of the family was the Von Trapps. The father was a reserve duty Naval officer and was recalled to service in the late thirties, this was the major crisis of the plot, of course this toiok place in Nazi-occupied Austria. there were a good many references to Foreign Culture, Politics and religion, the last two long off-base topics for Broadway, let alone Hollywood. The lead female character was an Ex-Nun, this was alluded to, with( Obviously) Musical talents. (Maria) while styled as a Musical comedy except for some rather Juvenile ( like Hey There- High there Ho There) of Mickey Mouse fame- done with, I would guess stacked stairs or maybe springboards the plot was almost devoid of comedy. I saw it in l962 o 63 and turned me off- I was a kid at the time. also, the Armed Forces and Police are shown in a Negative light- Just Imagine, say Phil Spector and the Ronettes, on tour, pursued by diligent FBI men intent on Phil"s arrest!- amn odd idea, then maybe for draft resistance. But Mr. Spector was too short for regular Army service anyhow! No such plauy would fly, would it?

Sort of. The musical was what interested him to it in the first place. He did the songs and pre-production, but during post-production it was established that his voice was not up to par. After this they brought in someone else to sing for the captain

Capt. Von Trapp had seven children. Watch the sound of music it tell the whole story. After the time frame of the movie, Captain Von Trapp married the governess and had 3 more children making a total of 10 children.

It won eight 1984 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor (F. Murray Abraham), Best Director (Milos Forman), Adapted Screenplay (Peter Shaffer), Art Direction, Costume Design, Makeup and Sound.

The PLAY was written and produced by the (Tolerance Twins) Dick Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein, who seemed to gravitate to offbeat and controversial plot lines- for example the admixture of studied ugliness in (Oklahoma), the Race-Mixing angle in South Pacific, and so on. The tale was inspired in part by the factual Von Trapp family but the play, as usual took some liberties with the facts as artistic license., Oddly a road company variant- identical in script, songs, characters, bore the different title-though very descriptive, (One Family Sings). I saw this in Williamsport, Pa. in l962 and it turned me off like a dead battery. so called Musical comedy had much music but almost negatory comedy touches.

His name is Max, but you have the relationship wrong. He is not Elsa's brother. He is Captain Von Trapps friend-which is why the children call him Uncle Max.

Julie Andrews opted to take a one time payment upfront. She was paid just $225,000 for her performance, a decision she surely has regretted over the years. Her biggest reward is being the star of one of the best movies ever produced, now considered a classic.

In contrast, Mary Martin who played Maria on stage and who owned the story reportedly made over $8 million from royalties from the movie.

The Sound of Music is based on a true story. In real life, Maria, who really was a nun, was sent to Captain von Trapp to take care of his sickly daughter. Eventually, they fell in love and got married. World War 2 forced them to leave Austria and at that time, Maria was pregnant with a son. And then she wrote a book called "The Story of the von Trapp Singers," which was made into "The Sound of Music." The names of the children were not the real actual names and some of the characters weren't real, either.

Yes, the movie 'The Sound of Music' was filmed in color.