Do you love "The Sound of Music," the award-winning movie musical released in 1965? Well, you might love it even more when you learn the true story behind the Julie Andrews classic. Maria and the von ...

Trapp Family Lodge & Resort is finding a way to "blend" "gentle" movie fans expectations with the true story, said Maria von Trapp's granddaughter.

Revisiting the famous family on whom "The Sound of Music" was based. — -- The famous singing von Trapp family is forever immortalized in the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, “The Sound of Music,” ...

(AP) -- Rosmarie Trapp, whose Austrian family the von Trapps was made famous in the musical and beloved movie “The Sound of Music,” has died. She died Friday at the age of 93 at a nursing home in ...

In Salzburg, Austria last spring, I skipped around the fountain outside Mirabell Palace. Others did too. Some 60 years earlier, Maria and the von Trapp children danced around the palace's Pegasus ...

It's still operational (and growing) 75 years later. During a visit in December, I enjoyed delicious food and learned more about the family's fascinating history. "The Sound of Music" ends with the ...

Their lives were subject of one of the greatest films ever made, but it's still hard to believe that "The Sound of Music's" von Trapp family were real life people. Here's images of the real life von ...