25 The Hills Are Alive Facts You Didn’t Know About ‘The Sound of Music’

19. Packing them in

The Sound of Music was such a fan favorite in South Korea that some theatres showed the movie several times a day. In a bid to exploit its popularity, even more, one enterprising theatre owner cut the musical numbers so its shorter run length allowed for more daily showings.

20. Keeping it in the family

The von Trapp family singing tradition continues. The younger generation—the great-grandchildren of the movie’s featured players—still sing professionally in the States.

21. Italian holiday

The gripping drama of the apparent on-foot escape of the von Trapps over the Alps was fiction. The real family apparently won their freedom by going by train on a vacation to Italy, just a day before Austria closed its borders. From Italy, they traveled to the United States, where they were signed as the Von Trapp Family Singers.

22. Adding to the troop

Captain von Trapp and Maria added to the seven children from his first marriage with three children of their own, the last of whom was born in 1939.

23. Drinking on the job

In the culminating scene of the movie that sees the Von Trapp Family Singers compete in the music festival, their father is acting suspiciously giddy. Christopher Plummer later admitted that he was drunk during its filming.

24. Growing concerns 2

The actress who played Louisa (Heather Menzies-Urich) was about three inches taller than the actor who played Friedrich (Nicholas Hammond). Or at least she was at the beginning of the filming cycle. To compensate, the director had Hammond wear heel lifts. But by the end of the shoot, he had grown six inches, and so filmed without shoes.

25. Keeping it casual

At no point in the film does Maria ever use Captain von Trapp’s given name, Georg. Instead, she refers to him as Captain, Darling, and Sir.

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