Sound of Music released in 1965, became an Academy Award winning icon in American movie musicals. As an historical account of the singing von Trapp family, the film is highly inaccurate and has several other strongly negative characteristics. However, the film's positive characteristics, chiefly its music and scenery/cinematography, override the negatives to make film a well-loved classic.
The Sound of Music: What the Movie is about; Which Parts are Historically Accurate and Inaccurate; a Review
"The Sound of Music" is about the singing von Trapp Family of Austria, who escaped Nazi control during Hitler's rule. The movie is historically accurate in some respects. Maria, an Austrian postulant with a religious order of nuns, was sent to the Salzburg home of widower Georg von Trapp, a military officer, and his 7 children. Maria and Georg eventually married. Also, the family was singing family and did win an Austrian musical competition. Finally, Maria, Georg and the 7 children did leave Austria during Hitler's reign. These bare bone facts pale in comparison to the many misrepresentations in the movie.
The movie is historically inaccurate in a number of respects. In the first place, Maria should have thanked her lucky stars and the casting department for her portrayal by the far better looking Julie Andrews, as these photographs of Maria and Julie Andrews show:
In addition, the von Trapp home was not the near-palace portrayed in the movie; rather, it was a much smaller country villa. Furthermore, the movie shows a flighty Maria being sent to the von Trapp home to be governess of all 7 children, though she was actually not-a-bit flighty and was...
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