When we hear the name Maria Von Trapp, most of us conjure an image of Julie Andrews as the young would-be-nun who fell in love with Georg Von Trapp, a widower with six children, in “The Sound of Music.” In the film, the love story between Maria and Georg is irresistibly swoon-worthy, with meaningful glances, a highly charged dance scene, and ultimately a confession of love under the moonlight.

As it turns out, the real love story between the real Von Trapps is even more fascinating than the fictional film version.

The National Archives has collected information about what’s fact and what’s fiction in The Sound of Music, which is based on a real family in Austria named Von Trapp. The film was generally based on the first section of Maria Von Trapp’s 1949 autobiography, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, with some of the details being true and others fictionalized for a movie audience.

What the movie got right and got wrong

For instance, Maria was actually hired on as a tutor for just one of Georg’s children, not as a governess for all of them. The children, whose names, ages and sexes were changed, were already musically inclined before Maria arrived. Georg was not the cold, grumpy dad he was portrayed as in the beginning of the film, but rather a warm and........

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