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

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About the Author Tom Santopietro is the author of The Sound of Music Story, Barbara Cook: Then and Now, The Godfather Effect, The Importance of Being Barbra, Considering Doris Day (A New York Times Editor's Choice) and Sinatra in Hollywood. A frequent media commentator and interviewer, he lectures on classic films, and over the past thirty years has managed more than two dozen Broadway shows. Product Description On March 2, 1965, "The Sound of Music" was released in the United States and the love affair between moviegoers and the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was on. Rarely has a film captured the love and imagination of the moviegoing public in the way that "The Sound of Music" did as it blended history, music, Austrian location filming, heartfelt emotion and the yodeling of Julie Andrews into a monster hit. Now, Tom Santopietro has written the ultimate "Sound of Music" fan book with all the inside dope from behind the scenes stories of the filming in Austria and Hollywood to new interviews with Johannes von Trapp and others. Santopietro looks back at the real life story of Maria von Trapp, goes on to chronicle the sensational success of the Broadway musical, and recounts the story of the near cancellation of the film when the "Cleopatra" bankrupted 20th Century Fox. We all know that Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer played Maria and Captain Von Trapp, but who else had been considered? Tom Santopietro knows and will tell all while providing a historian's critical analysis of the careers of director Robert Wise and screenwriter Ernest Lehman, a look at the critical controversy which greeted the movie, the film's relationship to the turbulent 1960s and the super stardom which engulfed Julie Andrews. Tom Santopietro's "The Story of 'The Sound of Music'" is book for everyone who cherishes this American classic. Review "For film lovers who enjoy special features such as deleted scenes or director's commentary, lovers of Broadway history, and Rodgers and Hammerstein devotees."―Library Journal "A celebration of a beloved movie...an enthusiastic close-up of movie history." ―Kirkus Reviews Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 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 By Tom Santopietro St. Martin's PressCopyright © 2015 Tom Santopietro All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-250-06446-2 Contents Title Page, Copyright Notice, Dedication, 1. A Very Good Place to Start, 2. How Do You Solve a Problem Like ..., 3. Broadway and Rodgers and Hammerstein, 4. 20th Century-Fox—Going, Going, Almost Gone, 5. The Sweet Smell of Ernest Lehman, 6. Six Characters in Search of a Director, 7. Designing The Sound of Music: Fantasy, Reality, and Fourteen Show Tunes, 8. Julie Doolittle Poppins von Trapp, 9. Captain Georg von Trapp, 10. A Captain with Seven Children: What's So Fearsome About That?, 11. Completing the Cast, 12. Let's Start at the Very Beginning, 13. Salzburg, Rain, and Nature's Revenge, 14. Song and Dance, 15. Back Home: Hooray for Hollywood, 16. Sneak Preview, 17. Publicity, 18. World Premiere, 19. Critics on the Warpath, 20. The One-Billion-Dollar Question, 21. The Academy Awards, 22. The International Phenomenon, 23. Julie Andrews: Queen of Hollywood, 24. Life After The Sound of Music, 25. Sorry-Grateful: The Story of the Real-Life Von Trapps, 26. Fifty Years of Statistics, 27. The Sing-Along Phenomenon, 28. New Iterations, 29. Full Circle, 30. And in the End ..., Photographs, Notes, Bibliography, Index, Acknowledgments, About the Author, Also by Tom Santopietro, Copyright, CHAPTER 1 A Very Good Place to Start "I guess we did do something rather good." —JULIE ANDREWS TO CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER IN JULIE ANDREWS AND CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER—A REMINISCENCE June 4, 1964: Julie Andrews was freezing. If this was spring weather in the Alps, what was it like in February? With the sun rarely bothe