article_snippet: But Julie Andrews real life counterpart - Maria Kutschera - was far from the idealized mother the popular film portrays.
article_snippet: Maria Kutschera (centre) was far from his mother
article_snippet: Whereas Julie Andrews (above) waltzed carelessly through the Alps in the 1965 film, Maria was described by her son as 'incredibly strong' with 'literally an indomitable will' her son has now revealed all in a new book written by Tom Santopietro.
article_snippet: her son said: 'Maria was  incredibly strong with a formidable will, literally an indomitable will. '
article_snippet: Maria was born in 1905 while travelling from Maria parents' village in Tyrol to a hospital in Vienna, Austria, on a train.
article_snippet: Maria escaped from a violent uncle and in 1926 his mother was a schoolteacher at the Nonnberg Abbey, in Salzburg, intending to become a nun.