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‘A joyful place’: a new museum coaxes Austrians to embrace The Sound of Music
Sixty years after the film’s release, Salzburg is embracing a Hollywood classic it once kept at arm’s length Let’s start at the very beginning – famously, a very good place to start. Just two decades after the second world war, a Hollywood crew descended on Salzburg with stars, show tunes and a compelling, essentially true story of love and opposition to Adolf Hitler: The Sound of Music. Kym Karath, Debbie Turner, Angela Cartwright, Duane Chase, Heather Menzies, Nicholas Hammond, Charmian Carr and Julie Andrews in The Sound Of Music. Continue reading...
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Sixty years after the film’s release, Salzburg is embracing a Hollywood classic it once kept at arm’s length Let’s start at the very beginning – famously, a very good place to start. Just two decades after the second world war, a Hollywood crew descended on Salzburg with stars, show tunes and a compelling, essentially true story of love and opposition to Adolf Hitler: The Sound of Music. Kym Karath, Debbie Turner, Angela Cartwright, Duane Chase, Heather Menzies, Nicholas Hammond, Charmian Carr and Julie Andrews in The Sound Of Music. Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘A joyful place’: a new museum coaxes Austrians to embrace The Sound of Music, Sixty years after the film’s release, Salzburg is embracing a Hollywood classic it once kept at arm’s length Let’s start at the very beginning – famously, a very good place to start. Just two decades after the second world war, a Hollywood crew descended on Salzburg with stars, show tunes and a compelling, essentially true story of love and opposition to Adolf Hitler: The Sound of Music. Kym Karath, Debbie Turner, Angela Cartwright, Duane Chase, Heather Menzies, Nicholas Hammond, Charmian Carr and Julie Andrews in The Sound Of Music. Continue reading…
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