Agathe Von Trapp was the second child and oldest daughter of Captain Georg Von Trapp, and Memories Before and After The Sound of Music is her autobiography.
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Meet The Real von Trapp Family That Inspired The Sound of Music
When The Sound of Music debuted on cinema screens in April 1965, audiences fell hard and in huge numbers for the joyous celebration of music, dance, patriotism, and familial and romantic love.
The adoration propelled the movie to become one of the world’s most beloved cinematic musicals and turned the story of the von Trapp family into lore. The movie received five Academy Awards—including Best Picture—and is the third highest-grossing film of all time when adjusting for inflation in the United States.
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Like many true stories filtered through Hollywood’s often overly sentimental lens, The Sound of Music on-screen differs significantly from the true tale of Maria Kutschera, the novice nun who takes a job as a governess in the Austrian household of the von Trapps, only to find herself falling in love with widower and retired naval captain Georg von Trapp and his seven chi