The Hills Are Alive! Behind The Scenes With The Sound of Music

The von Trapps Certainly Had An Opinion

In a 1998 interview with The New York Times, Johannes von Trapp (one of the children) said, “[i]t’s not what my family was about… [We were] about good taste, culture, all these wonderful upper-class standards that people make fun of in movies like ‘Titanic… Sound of Music‘ simplifies everything. I think perhaps reality is at the same time less glamorous but more interesting than the myth.”