"as singers. ""The Trapp Family"" became one of the most successful German films of the 1950s, and was the inspiration for the even more fictionalized Broadway musical ""The Sound of Music"" and its highly successful 1965 film version. The film had one sequel, ""The Trapp Family in America"". At a convent in Austria in the 1930s, a spirited novice named Maria (Ruth Leuwerik) is sent by her mother superior to the estate of a widowed naval hero, Baron von Trapp (Hans Holt), to look after his seven unruly children. The baron is a stern disciplinarian and runs his household like"
"Ruth Leuwerik Ruth Leuwerik (23 April 1924 – 12 January 2016) was a German film actress, one of the most popular stars of German film during the 1950s. She appeared in 34 films between 1950 and 1977. Leuwerik is probably best known for her portrayal of Maria von Trapp in the films ""The Trapp Family"" and ""The Trapp Family in America"". Born in Essen as Ruth Leeuwerik, she grew up there and in Münster. She began her acting career with stage roles in the late 1940s. In the 1950s she and Dieter Borsche were considered as the ideal couple of"
"the German film. In 1962 she starred in the Helmut Käutner film ""Redhead"", which was entered in the 12th Berlin International Film Festival. She is a five-time Bambi Award winner. Leuwerik died in Munich on 12 January 2016. Ruth Leuwerik Ruth Leuwerik (23 April 1924 – 12 January 2016) was a German film actress, one of the most popular stars of German film during the 1950s. She appeared in 34 films between 1950 and 1977. Leuwerik is probably best known for her portrayal of Maria von Trapp in the films ""The Trapp Family"" and ""The Trapp Family in America"". Born"
"The Trapp Family The Trapp Family () is a 1956 West German comedy drama film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Hans Holt, and Maria Holst. Based on Maria von Trapp's memoir, ""The Story of the Trapp Family Singers"", the film is about a novice nun sent to care for the unruly children of a wealthy baron, who falls in love with and marries the young woman. Through her caring influence, the family becomes a famous singing group. When the baron is pressured to join Hitler's army, the family escapes to the United States where they establish themselves"
"to remain in America. The Trapp Family in America The Trapp Family in America () is a 1958 West German comedy drama film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Hans Holt, and Josef Meinrad. It is a sequel to the 1956 film ""The Trapp Family"". The film's art direction was by Robert Herlth. The von Trapps have left Austria and are now in the United States. But the Land of Unlimited Possibilities turns out to be anything but for our hapless heroes. Though the American public has demonstrated countless times, that they'll pay anything to hear German folk"
"The Trapp Family in America The Trapp Family in America () is a 1958 West German comedy drama film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Hans Holt, and Josef Meinrad. It is a sequel to the 1956 film ""The Trapp Family"". The film's art direction was by Robert Herlth. The von Trapps have left Austria and are now in the United States. But the Land of Unlimited Possibilities turns out to be anything but for our hapless heroes. Though the American public has demonstrated countless times, that they'll pay anything to hear German folk songs and other pop"
"revival in 2002 starring Lea Salonga had a rewritten plot by playwright David Henry Hwang but retained the inter-generational and immigrant themes as well as most of the original songs. ""The Sound of Music"", Rodgers and Hammerstein's last work together, is based on the story of the Von Trapp Family. Starring Mary Martin as Maria and Theodore Bikel as Captain von Trapp, it opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 16, 1959, garnering much praise and numerous awards. It has been frequently revived ever since. The show was made into a film in 1965 starring Julie Andrews as"
"based on Maria von Trapp's memoir, ""The Story of the Trapp Family Singers"", published in 1949 to help promote her family's singing group following the death of her husband Georg in 1947. Hollywood producers expressed interest in purchasing the title only, but Maria refused, wanting her entire story to be told. In 1956, German producer Wolfgang Liebeneiner purchased the film rights for $9,000 (), hired George Hurdalek and Herbert Reinecker to write the screenplay, and Franz Grothe to supervise the soundtrack, which consisted of traditional Austrian folk songs. ""The Trapp Family"" was released in West Germany on October 9, 1956"
"was adapted as a 1965 film musical starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, which won five Academy Awards. ""The Sound of Music"" was the last musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein; Oscar Hammerstein died of stomach cancer nine months after the Broadway premiere. After viewing ""The Trapp Family"", a 1956 West German film about the von Trapp family, and its 1958 sequel (""""), stage director Vincent J. Donehue thought that the project would be perfect for his friend Mary Martin; Broadway producers Leland Hayward and Richard Halliday (Martin's husband) agreed. The producers originally envisioned a non-musical play that would be"
"""married."" After his death in 2002, Menzies established the Robert Urich Foundation and spent most of her time in her last years devoted to the organization that raises money for cancer research and support for cancer patients. Heather Menzies-Urich was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in November 2017. She died on December 24, 2017. Menzies-Urich was survived by three children, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Heather Menzies Heather Menzies-Urich (born Heather Margaret Brotherston Menzies; December 3, 1949 – December 24, 2017) was a Canadian-American model and actress, known for her roles as Louisa von Trapp in the 1965 film ""The"
"distribution in the United States. 20th Century Fox combined the two German films, ""Die Trapp-Familie"" and ""Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika"", hired Lee Kresel to dub the films in English, and released them as a single 106-minute film titled ""The Trapp Family"" on April 19, 1961. Citations Sources The Trapp Family The Trapp Family () is a 1956 West German comedy drama film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Hans Holt, and Maria Holst. Based on Maria von Trapp's memoir, ""The Story of the Trapp Family Singers"", the film is about a novice nun sent to care for the"
"Captain von Trapp in ""The Sound of Music"" (1965), while they were both filming ""Lock Up Your Daughters"" in Kilkenny, Ireland. Plummer was almost 14 years older, twice divorced, and had recently been partnering Richard Harris' ex-wife Elizabeth Rees-Williams. Taylor's usually ""mousy"" hair, which was tinted red on location, is said to have appealed to Plummer. For her part, Taylor, who initially thought Plummer ""a most conceited prig"", agreed to meet him again in London provided that he reduced his consumption of alcohol. Taylor and Plummer were married in Montreal, Quebec on 2 October 1970. The officiant, the Reverend Philip"
"later, Liebeneiner directed a sequel, ""The Trapp Family in America"", and the two films soon became the most successful films in West Germany during the post-war years. Their success extended throughout Europe and South America. In his review of the 1961 United States version for ""The New York Times"", Howard Thompson gave the film a positive review, calling it ""genteel, tuneful and frankly sentimental"". According to Thompson, the film ""steers an undramatic, but disarming, course"", with ""friendly"" acting and ""pretty"" cinematography. The central attraction for Thompson, however, is the traditional folk music: Thompson concludes, ""The children will love it. Nobody,"
"homes in Zell Am See and Klosterneuburg after being forced to abandon their actual ancestral home in Pola following World War I. Georg moved the family to the Salzburg villa shortly after the death of his first wife in 1922. In the film, Georg is referred to as ""Baron"", but his actual family title was ""Ritter"" (German for ""knight""), a hereditary knighthood the equivalent of which in the United Kingdom is a baronetcy. Austrian nobility, moreover, was legally abolished in 1919 and the nobiliary particle ""von"" was proscribed after World War I, so he was legally ""Georg Trapp"". Both the"
"German/Austrian clothing (tracht) every day. She went to visit her aunt in Zell am See in 1972 and died there at the age of 55 from asthma. She was buried at the Lodge in Stowe, Vermont, next to her father, her stepmother and her siblings, Rupert, Werner, and Martina. Hedwig von Trapp Hedwig Maria Adolphine Gobertina von Trapp (28 July 1917 – 14 September 1972) was the fifth child of Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agatha Whitehead von Trapp. She was a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the play and movie"
"signed away the rights to her story without confirming that such a law existed (it did not). The same agent that misled her offered her a single cash payment if she would accept $9,000, which she did. Liebeneiner brought in George Hurdalek and Herbert Reinecker to write the screenplay, and Franz Grothe to supervise the soundtrack, which included traditional Austrian folk songs. The movie was filmed on location in Salzburg, Austria, and Murnau am Staffelsee in Bavaria, West Germany. ""The Trapp Family"" was released in West Germany on October 9, 1956 by Gloria and became a major success. Two years"
"the Trapp Family Singers"", written by his second wife Maria Augusta Trapp, the Captain has been described as being a warm and loving father who was always around. The Captain was portrayed in a more negative light in many adaptations though. For instance, in the 1965 film, Georg von Trapp was portrayed as a disciplinary man who always went away and did not care for his children or their feelings at the beginning of the film. BBC Radio presented a different account of the family in October, 2009, in a play by Annie Caulfield called ""The Von Trapps and Me"","
"the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and later fell into Italian territory after World War I. From Italy, they traveled to London and ultimately the United States. The character Max Detweiler, the scheming family music director, is fictional. The von Trapps' family priest, the Reverend Franz Wasner, was their musical director for over twenty years and accompanied them when they left Austria. The character of Friedrich (the second oldest child in the film version) was based on Rupert, the oldest of the real von Trapp children. Liesl (the oldest child in the film) was based on Agathe von Trapp, the second oldest in"
"the comedy ""The Trapp Family"", based on the memoirs of Maria von Trapp, which became the inspiration for the hugely successful American Broadway musical, ""The Sound of Music"", and the subsequent American film of the same name. Towards the end of his career, Ehmann would also appear in several television films for German and Austrian TV. Ehmann died on November 1, 1967, at the age of 85, in his home town of Vienna. He is buried in the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna. Karl Ehmann Karl Ehmann (August 13, 1882 – November 1, 1967) was an Austrian stage and film actor whose"
"film was a popular success in every country it opened, except the two countries where the story originated, Austria and Germany. In these countries, the film had to compete with the much-loved ""Die Trapp-Familie"" (1956), which provided the original inspiration for the Broadway musical, and its sequel ""Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika"" (1958)—both films still widely popular in German-speaking Europe and considered the authoritative von Trapp story. Austrians took exception to the liberties taken by the filmmakers with regard to the costumes, which did not reflect traditional style, and the replacement of traditional Austrian folk songs with Broadway show tunes. The"
"and became a major success. Two years later, Liebeneiner directed a sequel, ""The Trapp Family in America"", and the two pictures became the most successful films in West Germany during the post-war years. Their popularity extended throughout Europe and South America. In 1956, Paramount Pictures purchased the United States film rights, intending to produce an English-language version with Audrey Hepburn as Maria. The studio eventually dropped its option, but one of its directors, Vincent J. Donehue, proposed the story as a stage musical for Mary Martin. Producers Richard Halliday and Leland Heyward secured the rights and hired playwrights Howard Lindsay"
"family left Austria and immigrated to the United States. Upon Maria's arrival in the United States, she published her autobiography in 1949, which sparked widespread interest in her story. In the book, she writes about the Mother Abbess and her time at Nonnberg. Lütz inspired the character of the “Mother Abbess”, portrayed by German actress Agnes Windeck, in the original 1956 feature-film on the von Trapp family. In the 1959 Broadway musical ""The Sound of Music"", Lütz was portrayed by Patricia Neway, who won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance. The song Climb"
"2004 at age 91. The book was republished in 2010 by Harper Paperback. She played guitar and piano into her retirement. She sang around the house until she was about 94 years old. The film """" (2015), starring Eliza Bennett and Rosemary Harris as younger and older Agathe, respectively, was based on this book. Agathe died on 28 December 2010, aged 97, at the Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson, Maryland after suffering congestive heart failure. Agathe von Trapp Agathe Johanna Erwina Gobertina von Trapp (12 March 1913 – 28 December 2010) was the eldest daughter of Georg von Trapp and"
"in ""Von Ryan's Express"" (1965), ""Topaz"" (1969), ""Lost Horizon"" (1973), ""The Big Game"" (1973), ""The Clone Master"" (1978), ""The Formula"" (1980), ""The Money Pit"" (1986) and ""Born to Fight"" (1989), as well as TV miniseries such as ""The Rhinemann Exchange"", ""The Word"" and """". Van Dreelen had an international stage career and starred in a Dutch staging of ""My Fair Lady"". He starred as Baron Von Trapp for 40 weeks in as the original American touring production of ""The Sound of Music"". (According to the actor, Richard Rodgers wanted van Dreelen and Audrey Hepburn to play the film's leads.) John"
"don't, I just know I'll turn back."" Maria von Trapp sang ""Edelweiss"" with Andrews on ""The Julie Andrews Hour "" in 1973. In 1991, a 40 episode anime series, titled ""Trapp Family Story"" aired in Japan, her character referred to by her maiden name (Maria Kutschera), voiced by Masako Katsuki. She was portrayed in the 2015 film """" by Yvonne Catterfeld. Maria von Trapp Maria Augusta von Trapp DHS (née Kutschera; 26 January 1905–28 March 1987), also known as Baroness von Trapp, was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. She wrote ""The Story of the Trapp Family"
"March 2, 1965, 20th Century Fox released a film adaption of the musical starring Julie Andrews as Maria Rainer and Christopher Plummer as Captain Georg von Trapp. It was produced and directed by Robert Wise with the screenplay adaption written by Ernest Lehman. Two songs were written by Rodgers specifically for the film, ""I Have Confidence"" and ""Something Good"". The film won five Oscars at the 38th Academy Awards, including Best Picture. A live televised production of the musical aired twice in December 2013 on NBC. It was directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller and Rob Ashford. Carrie Underwood starred as Maria"
"Angela Cartwright Angela Margaret Cartwright (born September 9, 1952) is an English-born American actress primarily known for her roles in movies and television. Cartwright is best known in movies as a child actress for her role as Brigitta von Trapp in the Academy Award winning film ""The Sound of Music"" (1965). On television, she played Linda Williams, the stepdaughter of Danny Williams (played by Danny Thomas) in the 1950s TV series ""The Danny Thomas Show"", and Penny Robinson, in the 1960s television series ""Lost in Space"". Her older sister is actress Veronica Cartwright. Angela Cartwright was born in Altrincham, Cheshire,"
"the Salzburg Marionette Theatre, a special exhibition of marionettes opened at the Salzburg Hohensalzburg Fortress. Since that time, the company has continued to tour and perform in its own theatre with an ever increasing repertoire of productions featuring not just the works of Mozart, but also many other famous composers such as Johann Strauss and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The company revived its production of ""Bastien and Bastienne"" in 2007 and premiered a new production of ""The Sound of Music,"" directed by Richard Hamburger. Salzburg was home of the Von Trapp family and was featured heavily in the 1965 film production"
"Joe orders her to call the police, instead. He then turns on the lights to his rear yard, illuminating his spacious swimming pool and well maintained patio. As sirens are heard in the background, Joe leans against the wall and awaits his fate in the arms of his wife. The Money Trap The Money Trap is a 1965 crime drama film directed by Burt Kennedy, written by Walter Bernstein based on the novel of the same name by Lionel White, and starring Glenn Ford, Elke Sommer and Rita Hayworth. The supporting cast features Ricardo Montalban, Joseph Cotten and James Mitchum."
"Whitehead) von Trapp (1891–1922). He grew up in Zell am See during World War I with his siblings, Agathe von Trapp (1913–2010), Maria Franziska von Trapp (1914-2014), Werner von Trapp (1915–2007), Hedwig von Trapp (1917–1972), and Johanna von Trapp (1919–1994). The youngest sister, Martina von Trapp (1921–1951), was born in Klosterneuburg (Austria), whither the Trapp Family had moved from Zell-am-See because their home (a ""lake hotel"" called ""Kitzsteinhorn"") had been flooded. In 1922, von Trapp's mother died of scarlet fever and was buried in Klosterneuburg when Rupert was almost 11 years old. In 1925, the family moved to Salzburg-Aigen. Rupert"
"Charmian Carr Charmian Carr (born Charmian Anne Farnon; December 27, 1942 – September 17, 2016) was an American actress and singer best known for her role as Liesl, the eldest Von Trapp daughter in the 1965 film version of ""The Sound of Music"". Carr was born Charmian Anne Farnon in Chicago, Illinois, the second child of vaudeville actress Rita Oehmen and musician Brian Farnon. The couple divorced in 1957. She had two sisters, both actresses (Shannon Farnon and Darleen Carr). Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was 10. While a student at San Fernando High School, Carr was"
"Trapp transferred his savings from a bank in London into an Austrian bank. Maria later trained the children to perform at various events as a way of earning a livelihood. The family came under increasing persecution from the Nazis after the Anschluss when von Trapp refused to serve in the German Navy due to his opposition to Nazi ideology. He fled with his family to Italy and later to the United States, where he set up a ranch and lived until his death in 1947. Maria wrote of their time together in her memoir ""The Story of the Trapp Family"
"Harrison for the film adaptation of ""Doctor Dolittle"". This decision was later reversed, but Plummer was nonetheless paid $87,500 for signing the contract. At the same time, Plummer was performing in the stage play ""The Royal Hunt of the Sun"" and his whole ""Dolittle"" participation was so brief that Plummer never missed a performance. Plummer remains widely known for his portrayal of Captain Von Trapp due to the box office success and continued popularity of ""The Sound of Music"" (1965), a role which he once described as ""so awful and sentimental and gooey"". He found all aspects of making the"