Von Trapp Family on The Sound Of Music

ABC Family features today the classic movie The Sound of Music. The film was based on Maria von Trapp’s book, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, published in 1949.

The Sound of Music, with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opened on Broadway in the fall of 1959, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel. It was a success, running for more than three years. The film version set box office records, but Mrs. Trapp said she received only about $500,000 in royalties. Maria von Trapp makes a cameo appearance in the movie version of The Sound of Music. For an instant, she, her daughter Rosemarie, and Werner’s daughter Barbara can be seen walking past an archway during the song, “I Have Confidence”, at the line, “I must stop these doubts, all these worries/If I don’t, I just know I’ll turn back.”