The Sound of Music Story, Tom Santopietro
The Sound of Music Story, Tom Santopietro
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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

Author: Tom Santopietro

Narrator: Eric Michael Summerer

Unabridged: 11 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/12/2015


Synopsis

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.

About Tom Santopietro

Tom Santopietro is the author of The Godfather Effect, The Importance of Being Barbra, Considering Doris Day, and Sinatra in Hollywood. He has worked for the past twenty years in New York theater as a manager of more than two dozen Broadway shows. He lives in New York, New York.


Reviews

Do you like “The Sound of Music”? Do you really, really want to know EVERYTHING about the movie, about the family von Trapp, about the filming of the movie, about the premier, the life of the actors and the people that made the movie? Do you feel the need to know about all the problems with the film......more

I read this book for the Goodreads' book club Diversity in All Forms! If you would like to participate in the discussion here is the link: [URL not allowed] I'm glad I read this book because I learned a lot, but it definitely isn't a book I'll suggest to others. Because it is n......more

Goodreads review by Dana

This is an interesting read, but I found there to be simply too much information in this. It's great if you are a super fan and want to know every little detail about every little thing, but to be honest I found it to get a little tiresome. I love The Sound of Music, but I am not so obsessed that I......more

Confession: I hated the Hollywood movie “The Sound of Music.” It seemed like a cleaned-up falsified version of a family. I thought so because, hello, in the real world there was the Great Depression, World War II, scary killer Nazis, murder of 6 million Jews and at least 3 million Poles, gypsies, Ru......more

Goodreads review by Donna

Since the enormously popular movie based on the story of the Von Trapp family was released 50 years ago, numerous books have been published about the family, the movie, or both. This reviewer tried reading Mrs. Von Trapp’s memoir many years ago and found it surprisingly dry. Not so with this humding......more