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What happened to the Real Von Trapp Family from “The Sound of Music”?

‘The Sound of Music,’ starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, is based on the real-life von Trapp family. Here's the true story of 'The Sound of Music' and what happened to the von Trapps after leaving Austria.

The film — available to stream on Disney+ — starred Julia Andrews as Maria, a free-spirited nun who falls in love with a widowed naval officer, played by the late Christopher Plummer, and his seven children whom she teaches to sing. However, the film took many liberties in its story, including altering the timeline of events (the movie is set in the late 1930s even though the real Georg and Maria wed a decade earlier) and how the family fled Austria (they did not, in fact, climb over the hills). While Georg, Maria and the von Trapp kids had been making music all their lives, they didn’t officially start performing until 1934, when they entertained an opera singer named Lotte Lehmann with their songs.

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