Donkey's voice came out of Puss, and vice versa.They saw that Rodeo Drive had been trashed, with graffiti visible everywhere.There was also an out-of-control carriage driven by witches, and rampant crime was visible (a pick-pocketing Little Red Riding Hood)." Her fingers hesitantly move up to her chin and then to her mouth, where she pushes the ends up with her fingers, but her eyes reveal pain and pent-up terror underneath." A second spry, veiled little Old Lady (85-year-old Estelle Winwood) had just ascended he stairs and given his door two double-knocks.Marketing slogans cried: "The Happiest Sound in All the World." Ernest Lehman's screenplay was based on the book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.That book was in turn based on Baroness Maria von Trapp's 1949 autobiography (The von Trapp Family Singers) about he exploits of the family of singers and their escape from the Nazis in Austria in 1938.