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.
Description: xii, 324 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780593075562 (paperback)
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 791.43 SAN | Available | 058998 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-307) and index.
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....
Shares behind-the-scenes facts about the popular musical film, including interviews with the cast and crew, filming anecdotes, and a history of the real-life von Trapp family.