The Sound of Music is often considered the greatest childrens movie of all time. Heres some trivia about it.
1. The original movie ran for five uninterrupted years in the box office when it was first released!
2. The movie was not just a figment of imagination. There really was a Von Trapp Family of singers who sang everywhere as a family and who refused to sing for Hitler, forcing them to run away overnight as portrayed in the movie!
3. The seven children got along so well with each other during the making of the movie that people thought they were all from the same family! But shooting this hit film was not fun all the way.
4. The littlest girl, Gretl, in the movie nearly lost her life drowning in a lake when the boat turned over.
5. Martha, the second youngest, lost loose teeth during filming and wore uncomfortable false teeth to cover up. But through it all, the cast and crew made the movie a great success!