#Captain george von trapp movie

Georg bought the Villa Trap in 1924 for his family after his first wife died.

The Villa Trapp, the original home of the von Trapp family is now a hotel. Were the von trapps real? Absolutely, but let’s separate Georg van Trapp, the man, from the Hollywood creation shall we? The Georg Von Trapp House in Austria Rochester vibe to the character, the age discrepancy seemed a minor footnote in the movie. To clarify, that’s an age gap of 25 years between t he real Baron von Trapp and Maria. Christopher Plummer brought out such a dishy-widower-Mr. What was the age gap between Maria von Trapp and her husband? Maria von Trap was 22 when she married Georg who was aged 47 in 1927. How old was Maria von Trapp when she married Captain von Trapp?

#Captain george von trapp movie

In retrospect, I clearly had movie daddy issues. I was completely in love with Baron Georg von Trapp as a child but I also wanted to be the oldest daughter, Liesl von Trapp. Engimatic and handsome as portrayed by Christopher Plummer, Georg was the ultimate dreamboat – loving husband, father and man of principle. These 7 fascinating facts about the real Georg von Trapp, the patriarch of the family von Trapp, and the George von Trapp family, show how Hollywood embellishes the truth to create a better story. In the intervening years, the movie has earned billions of dollars if you adjust for inflation. One of the most successful movies of all time, The Sound of Music won 5 Oscars on its release in 1965.

The Hollywood Version of Baron von Trapp.

They kept going into Italy, at the time not firmly allied with Germany, and wound up in the U.S. In fact they made the excuse that they were going mountain climbing in the Alps, about 100km south.

In the movie it looks like the Trapps escape by sneaking out their back yard and over the mountains into what on the map is obviously Germany. But he did have combat experience, knowledge of the local waters, and guts. The captain was in his mid-50s at the time, and his World War I sub had been only 40 feet long with a crew of five. After the Nazi takeover of Austria in 1938 he was offered command of a new submarine that was eventually to be based in the Adriatic. Trapp’s wartime exploits, which made him a national hero and earned him a baronetcy, hadn’t eluded the notice of Berlin, however. Having lost the war, A-H lost the port and the rest of its coastline as well. He wreaked havoc on allied shipping but in vain. During World War I Georg Trapp commanded a submarine launched from the Adriatic port of Fiume, then held by Austria-Hungary. Dear Cecil: The recent network showing of The Sound of Music called to mind the musical’s two howling bloopers: how can Captain von Trapp be a captain in the Austrian navy if Austria is a landlocked country, and why do the von Trapps, refugees from the Nazis, “climb every mountain” into what on the map looks like Berchtesgaden’s back yard? What about the real von Trapps? How did they actually escape Austria, and what navy was the captain in? (I know that before 1918 Austria held the coast of Yugoslavia, but then why would Hitler be hot to get his hands on somebody who hadn’t smelled salt water in twenty years?) David Drewer, Baltimore