Perhaps not everyone knows it, but the great Christopher Plummer detested his most famous character, Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music. The film starring Julie Andrews – an adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical – was released in 1965 and was an absolute triumph. It seems that Plummer had difficulty even naming it: he called it “the movie” or, distorting its English title, The Sound of Mucus.
Surprising as it may be, the film tells a true story, reconstructed by the protagonist herself in a 1949 book. On 26 November 1927 the real Maria von Trapp (née Kutschera) married Captain Georg, 25 years older than her, in Nonnberg Abbey. With the advent of Nazism the two – together with their nine children, seven from Georg’s first marriage and two they had together – fled to America, settling in Vermont. Their tenth child was born there and the family made a fortune as a singing group: the “Trapp Family Singers”.
Today’s almanac, November 26: all together passionately (for real)
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