The scene when Maria and the von Trapp children fell in the water while waving wildly to Captain von Trapp posed a bit of a problem for her -- she couldn't swim."The little one can't swim, please ...

3.Christopher Plummer repeatedly turned down the role of Captain von Trapp because of the initial way the character was written. Since Christopher kept turning down the role, the creative team ...

Johannes, who was born in Philadelphia, was the first von Trapp child of Maria and Georg’s brood to be born in the United States. When the von Trapps came to the U.S. in 1938, Johannes said his ...

Maria von Trapp passed away on March 28, 1987, and is interred in the family cemetery at Trapp Family Lodge." Rin Velasco is a trending reporter. She can be reached at [email protected].