The Trapp Family (1956) on Netflix
NR19561h 46mComedyFamilyRomance
Baron von Trapp is a widower with seven children and a strict household. Maria, a postulant at Nonnberg Abbey, arrives to care for the children and teaches them to sing.
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Plot summary
In 1930s Austria, Maria prepares to take her vows as a postulant at Nonnberg Abbey, and the abbess there sends her to the household of Baron von Trapp, a war hero of the Austro-Hungarian Navy and a widower with seven children. The baron is strict and runs his home the way he once ran a submarine in World War I, and he has set down orders for his household. The children were unruly before Maria came; she lets them play games as other children do and teaches them to sing. Her way of caring for them goes against the orders he gave.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Trapp Family (1956)
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- Maria von Trapp signed away the rights to her life story after being told German law barred royalty payments to non-German citizens; the law did not exist, and she accepted a single payment of $9,000.
- Paramount Pictures planned an English-language version of the story with Audrey Hepburn as Maria, then dropped its option, and its director Vincent Donehue proposed the material instead as a stage musical for Mary Martin.
- The stage version's producers asked Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein for one song; the composers felt traditional Austrian folk songs and their own style would not mix, and wrote a new score for the whole show instead.
- The Trapp Family, one of the most successful German films of the 1950s, inspired the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music and its 1965 film version.
- Maria von Trapp wrote her 1948 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers to promote her family's singing group after her husband Captain von Trapp died in 1947; when Hollywood producers wanted only the title, she refused, wanting her whole story told.
