The Sound of Music story : how a beguiling young novice, a handsome Austrian captain, and ten singing Von Trapp children inspired the most beloved film of all time
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Published to coincide with the film's 50th anniversary, an ultimate fan book shares behind-the-scenes facts about The Sound of Music's filming in Austria and Hollywood and incorporates new interviews with production insiders, including Johannes von Trapp. Full description
Table of Contents:
- A very good place to start
- How do you solve a problem like...
- Broadway and Rodgers and Hammerstein
- 20th Century Fox: going, going, almost gone
- The sweet smell of Ernest Lehman
- Six characters in search of a director
- Designing The Sound of Music: fantasy, reality, and fourteen show tunes
- Julie Doolittle Poppins von Trapp
- Captain Georg von Trapp
- A captain with seven children: what's so fearsome about that?
- Completing the cast
- Let's start at the very beginning
- Salzburg, rain, and nature's revenge
- Song and dance
- Back home: hooray for Hollywood
- Sneak preview
- Publicity
- World premiere
- Critics on the warpath
- The one-billion-dollar question
- The Academy Awards
- The international phenomenon
- Julie Andrews: queen of Hollywood
- Life after The Sound of Music
- Sorry-grateful: the story of the real Von Trapps
- Fifty years of statistics
- The sing-along phenomenon
- New iterations
- Full circle
- And in the end....