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St. Martin's Press
February 2015
On Sale: February 17, 2015
ISBN: 1250064465
EAN: 9781250064462
Kindle: B00M6608IK
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Non-Fiction History
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.
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