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Behind The Sound of Music: Why the Real Maria Went to the von Trapps' by Lily Rothman

When the movie of The Sound of Music premiered 50 years ago, on Mar. 2, 1965, the world learned the story of would-be nun Maria, whose superiors, at their wits’ end over her flightiness, sent her to work as a governess for an Austrian naval captain with seven children. But in reality, though Maria and…

SOURCE: Time at 09:00AM on March 2, 2015

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