article_snippet: The Sound Of Music could have been very different if the Osmonds had claimed a place in The film .
article_snippet: At least they could make music.
article_snippet: I was shocked to discover that many major talents had shunned the chance to put the proven hit on the big screen.
article_snippet: Neither Gene Kelly nor Billy Wilder would touch it, as ‘no musical with swastikas in it can be a success’.
article_snippet: Audrey Hepburn, Doris Day and Anne Bancroft didn’t fancy donning a wimple.
article_snippet: He’d have been brilliant.
article_snippet: Of those Aryan-looking youngsters who were finally cast, after those Aryan-looking youngsters who were finally cast 11 weeks on location in Salzburg and the glorious Salzkammergut in 1964, none was to go on to great things.
article_snippet: Life was never as rosy as in the film: one of the children had electroconvulsive shock treatment for depression, another married a Canadian, and others became dairy farmers.