Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp. Their seven children were the basis for the singing family in the musical and film. "The Sound of Music" was based loosely on a 1949 ...

Maria von Trapp, the last of the singing children immortalized in the ... wrote a book titled “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers,” which sparked two German-made movies and “The Sound ...

Separating the real von Trapp family from the characters portrayed in "The Sound of Music" can be a little difficult. Their name alone evokes images of children singing and skipping through ...

Maria and the von Trapp family were actually real people ... However, in real life, the von Trapps were a singing group before Maria von Trapp came into their lives. What the movie did get ...

Maria von Trapp, whose singing family`s flight from Nazi-occupied Austria inspired the stage and screen musical ”The Sound of Music,” died Saturday night in a Vermont hospital. She was 82.

Nov. 11 2005— -- The actors who portrayed the singing von Trapp family in "The Sound of Music" are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the beloved musical. The entire von Trapp family ...

By Neil Genzlinger Rosmarie Trapp, a member of the singing family made famous by the stage musical and film “The Sound of Music” and the last surviving daughter of Baron Georg Johannes von ...

His seven children by his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, were the basis for the singing family in the 1959 Broadway musical and 1965 film, which won the Oscar for best picture.

By 1942, the family had bought a farm in Stowe. Maria rented out rooms in the house when the von Trapps were on tour singing. Still, Johannes von Trapp, the 10th and youngest child, remembers ...

The famous von Trapp family from “The Sound of Music ... The show will be set in the period after the singing family fled Europe in the early 1940s and bought a farm in Stowe, Vermont ...