How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
#0How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/11/06 at 9:41pmDon't tell me the Baroness never really owned a harmonica.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
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#1re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/11/06 at 9:46pmIn real life the Nazis sang, too.
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Dollypop
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#2re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/11/06 at 9:49pmIt's not very accurate. The kids had different names; Maria was built like a Volvo, they didn't escape to Switzerland--it was to Italy.
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#3re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/11/06 at 9:53pmMaria was hell on wheels. I wrote a paper on her for Sophomore Religious Studies class. She really more in love with the kids than with the Major. Got on boat to America while pregnant which was against the rules -- so made her bust artificially bigger and bigger throughout the voyage to look proportionately fatter. If they were true to form, these days, Maria would be played by Mary Testa, not Rebecca Luker.
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Dollypop
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#4re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/11/06 at 9:55pm
Forget Mary Testa---she'd be more like Totie Fields.
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Updated On: 5/11/06 at 09:55 PM
Dollypop
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#5re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/11/06 at 10:11pmOr maybe Barbara Cook.
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#6re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/11/06 at 10:43pmWere the Nuns really mechanics?
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
alterego
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#7re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/11/06 at 10:48pmI heard a story that when they were settled in America and the children were growing up she was so strict with them that a couple actually ran away.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#8re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 8:16amThe only accurate thing about that movie is that it took place in the buildup to World War 2 and that Maria had been in a convent.
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pattifan2
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#9re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 9:47amProbably very inaccurate. For a start, goatherds are never lonely and Maria's hair is exceptionally straight to say that she wore curlers underneath her wimple.
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#10re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 10:06am
Maria was also a baroness herself by birth... and the "baroness" character was actually a princess in real life.
There are a LOT of differences, if you read Maria's biography. The time line has been condensed. They had been married for years before they left Austria... by train... not climbing over any mountains.
But everything went to hell when they adopted Cousin Oliver. 
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#11re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 10:07amMaria was an a-hole.
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#12re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 10:08amPerhaps Mother Abbess should have sung Life Is Like A Train. Or Alabamy Bound.
#13re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 10:09am
doodlenyc --- not far from the truth. She was an angry, loud, domineering woman.
Much more like Mama Rose than her Julie Andrews counterpart!
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Gothampc
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#14re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 10:18amNone of those R&H musicals are accurate. In The King & I, Anna Leonowens makes out like she was the only teacher. There was a whole harem of teachers. You think the King of Siam is going to rely on one snooty British woman who has a child of questionable parentage to teach his children?
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alterego
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#15re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 10:24amI'm still laughing at Calvin's Alabamy Bound quip.
#16re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 10:27am
The best part is that Anna's whole "true" story is fabricated and romanticized.
You have to see the A&E Biography on her sometime. She was a fascinating lady, and I think her TRUE story would make a hell of a movie. To start with, she made up her name, her identity, and the fact that she had been married to a sea captain, etc. She was married to a poor guy (who may or may not have been a seabee) named Leon Owens who abandoned her. She took the teaching job in Siam to get away from England and reinvent herself a bit. A fresh start. She changed her last name to the fake "Leonowens" and made up her own more socially acceptable back story.
She was also in Siam for a very short time, and she wasn't there when the king died. She kept in touch with the oldest son Chulalongkorn over the years with a special bonding, after he became king... but they had a falling out when her "phony" book was published. He was very upset by it, understandably.
(end of thread-jack)
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Posted: 5/12/06 at 10:35am
The recent re-release of SoM has the A&E bio of Maria, and it is hilarious...especially when she was such a battalax on the set and wanted to have a part in the movie. Wise told her she could, but she barely walks across the stage.
Threadjack of sorts...did anyone else notice that, in this newest remaster, the famous line "What is it you can't face" has be altered so it is not as funny as it used to be?
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#18re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 10:35amACK........my fantasy, gone.......
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#19re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 10:36am
You mean to tell me that they didn't dance around the palace? 
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Updated On: 5/12/06 at 10:36 AM
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#20re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 10:39amRolf was straight.
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Gothampc
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#21re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 10:55amI'm sure that The Lonely Goatherd wasn't as lonely as Maria makes him out to be.
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#22re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 11:27am....not with Freidrick around.
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#23re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 11:29am
And Maria wasn't THAT into girls in white dresses, either.
Artistic license!
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#24re: How Accurate is The Sound of Music?
Posted: 5/12/06 at 11:30amb12b...did she prefer girls out of them?
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