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 / Tom Santopietro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santopietro, Tom.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound of music (Motion picture).

Musical films--United States.

Musical films.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 324 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2015.

Summary:

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.

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....

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-307) and index.

ISBN:

9781250064462

1250064465

OCLC:

890912504