Is Your Favorite Movie Historically Accurate?

Published on July 24, 2019 By Jason Albert

The Sound of Music (1965)

We feel bad criticizing everyone’s favorite childhood musical film, but we need to address the facts and not the over-romanticized version of events! In actuality, they only became the Von Trapp Family Choir after their bank collapsed.

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20th Century Fox

In her memoir, Maria confessed that she didn’t actually marry George for love, but instead for the love of the children. The details in The Sound of Music might not match history, but it’s still one of our favorite things.