The King's Speech

jrpar
Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:06:51 +0000

Calmom, I googled the story after seeing the movie too, and was also pleasantly surprised to see how accurate the movie was. Not so for another movie I saw (for the --th time) recently - while watching the Sound of Music on Christmas night, I starting googling. I laughed out loud when I found this on one site:

Maria and Georg were married on 26 November 1927 and their first child was born in February 1928.

Well that’s an interesting twist! What did the Mother Superior think of that? Much of the movie did not match real life - the family didn’t escape over the mountains (they got on a train to Italy), and the dates/time periods were all off. One of the von Trapp family children was quoted as saying that the movie was a “very nice story, but it’s not our story”.