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Title:
Oklahoma! : MM43
Synopsis:
OSCAR WINNER - 1955
• Best Score Adaptation
• Best Sound
NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY: 2007
Soaring Melodies and Joyous Songs Fill the Western Skies in a Loving Celebration of the American Spirit.
A joyous celebration of frontier life sweeps across the Western plains, driven by an immortal score filled with unforgettable songs.
Set in the Oklahoma Territory in the early 1900s, OKLAHOMA! is an idealized vision of a simpler time, a story of tender romance and violent passion. Gordon MacRae is Curly, a sunny, good-natured ranch hand. Shirley Jones, in her film debut, is Laurey Williams, the farmer’s daughter he loves. Rod Steiger is the menacing Jud, who tries to come between them.
With choreography from the original Broadway production by Agnes DeMille, the score is ripe with classics: ”Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’,” ”The Surrey With the Fringe On Top,” ”People Will Say We’re in Love,” ”Oklahoma” and many more. This was the first Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration, starting the most successful creative partnership in the history of musical theater.
SONG INDEX:
• Overture / Main Title
• Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’
• The Surrey With the Fringe on Top
• Kansas City
• I Cain’t Say No
• Many a New Day
• People Will Say We’re in Love
• Pore Jud is Daid
• Out of My Dreams
• Dream Ballet
• Intermission / Entr’acte
• The Farmer and the Cowman / Farmer’s Dance
• All ’er Nothin’
• People Will Say We’re in Love (reprise)
• Oklahoma!
• Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ (reprise) / End Title
• Exit Music
TRIVIA:
• Tone deaf, Gloria Grahame, who played Ado Annie, sang with dubbing, which required that her songs to be edited together from recordings made almost literally note for note.
• Finding ”corn as high as an elephant’s eye” proved to be quite a challenge. Since filming was to take place out of season, no tall cornfields were to be found anywhere. The job was given to the people of University of Arizona Agricultural Department, who planted each stalk in individual containers and held their breath. With rain and good luck, the corn grew to a height of 16 feet, causing Oscar Hammerstein to quip: ”The corn is now as high as the eye of an elephant on top of another elephant.”
• Shot on location in and around Sonoita, Arizona, because the real Oklahoma in 1955 was so heavily farmed and developed that few suitable areas could be found that resembled the highly-rural and undeveloped Oklahoma of the turn of the century when the musical is set.
• James Whitmore played Gloria Grahame’s father, despite being only two years older than her.
• The song ”Lonely Room” (sung by Jud) was omitted from the film. In the song, Jud explains his bitter resentments and deep frustrations. Possibly this was considered too strong for 1955 film-goers.
• The film’s soundtrack album became one of the most successful movie albums ever released, more successful than the 1943 original Broadway cast album, although the Broadway production was the biggest stage hit of its time and for many years after. The film soundtrack album continues to be a popular seller even to this day.
• This film marks Shirley Jones’ screen debut.
• Selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2007, the centennial year of Oklahoma’s statehood.
• This was director Fred Zinneman’s first and only musical and it cost a then-astounding $6.8 million.
• OKLAHOMA! opened on Broadway at the St James Theater on March 31, 1943. With music by Richard Rodgers, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, the production was directed by Rouben Mamoulian, choreographed by Agnes De Mille and starred Alfred Drake as Curly, Joan Roberts as Laurey, Howard DaSilva as Jud and Celeste Holm as Ado Annie. After five successful years on Broadway, OKLAHOMA! closed on May 29, 1948. With a smash 2,212 performances, the production went on to set a record for the longest-running musical in Broadway history until MY FAIR LADY broke its record in the 1950s.
• The film had its television debut on the CBS Network in 1970.
• Based on the play GREEN GROW THE LILACS by Lynn Riggs, a part-Cherokee playwright born in Oklahoma.
• The story is set shortly before 1907, when Oklahoma Territory was admitted to the Union as a State.
• Filmed in both CinemasScope and Todd-AO. When both films are seen together, subtle differences may be discerned in such areas as line readings and overall pacing.
• The interiors were shot at MGM in autumn of 1954, the first time that an outside production company not released through MGM was allowed to film a feature there.
• Including the financing of the Todd-AO system, the total cost of the film was $11,000,000.
• Best Score Adaptation
• Best Sound
NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY: 2007
Soaring Melodies and Joyous Songs Fill the Western Skies in a Loving Celebration of the American Spirit.
A joyous celebration of frontier life sweeps across the Western plains, driven by an immortal score filled with unforgettable songs.
Set in the Oklahoma Territory in the early 1900s, OKLAHOMA! is an idealized vision of a simpler time, a story of tender romance and violent passion. Gordon MacRae is Curly, a sunny, good-natured ranch hand. Shirley Jones, in her film debut, is Laurey Williams, the farmer’s daughter he loves. Rod Steiger is the menacing Jud, who tries to come between them.
With choreography from the original Broadway production by Agnes DeMille, the score is ripe with classics: ”Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’,” ”The Surrey With the Fringe On Top,” ”People Will Say We’re in Love,” ”Oklahoma” and many more. This was the first Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration, starting the most successful creative partnership in the history of musical theater.
SONG INDEX:
• Overture / Main Title
• Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’
• The Surrey With the Fringe on Top
• Kansas City
• I Cain’t Say No
• Many a New Day
• People Will Say We’re in Love
• Pore Jud is Daid
• Out of My Dreams
• Dream Ballet
• Intermission / Entr’acte
• The Farmer and the Cowman / Farmer’s Dance
• All ’er Nothin’
• People Will Say We’re in Love (reprise)
• Oklahoma!
• Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ (reprise) / End Title
• Exit Music
TRIVIA:
• Tone deaf, Gloria Grahame, who played Ado Annie, sang with dubbing, which required that her songs to be edited together from recordings made almost literally note for note.
• Finding ”corn as high as an elephant’s eye” proved to be quite a challenge. Since filming was to take place out of season, no tall cornfields were to be found anywhere. The job was given to the people of University of Arizona Agricultural Department, who planted each stalk in individual containers and held their breath. With rain and good luck, the corn grew to a height of 16 feet, causing Oscar Hammerstein to quip: ”The corn is now as high as the eye of an elephant on top of another elephant.”
• Shot on location in and around Sonoita, Arizona, because the real Oklahoma in 1955 was so heavily farmed and developed that few suitable areas could be found that resembled the highly-rural and undeveloped Oklahoma of the turn of the century when the musical is set.
• James Whitmore played Gloria Grahame’s father, despite being only two years older than her.
• The song ”Lonely Room” (sung by Jud) was omitted from the film. In the song, Jud explains his bitter resentments and deep frustrations. Possibly this was considered too strong for 1955 film-goers.
• The film’s soundtrack album became one of the most successful movie albums ever released, more successful than the 1943 original Broadway cast album, although the Broadway production was the biggest stage hit of its time and for many years after. The film soundtrack album continues to be a popular seller even to this day.
• This film marks Shirley Jones’ screen debut.
• Selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2007, the centennial year of Oklahoma’s statehood.
• This was director Fred Zinneman’s first and only musical and it cost a then-astounding $6.8 million.
• OKLAHOMA! opened on Broadway at the St James Theater on March 31, 1943. With music by Richard Rodgers, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, the production was directed by Rouben Mamoulian, choreographed by Agnes De Mille and starred Alfred Drake as Curly, Joan Roberts as Laurey, Howard DaSilva as Jud and Celeste Holm as Ado Annie. After five successful years on Broadway, OKLAHOMA! closed on May 29, 1948. With a smash 2,212 performances, the production went on to set a record for the longest-running musical in Broadway history until MY FAIR LADY broke its record in the 1950s.
• The film had its television debut on the CBS Network in 1970.
• Based on the play GREEN GROW THE LILACS by Lynn Riggs, a part-Cherokee playwright born in Oklahoma.
• The story is set shortly before 1907, when Oklahoma Territory was admitted to the Union as a State.
• Filmed in both CinemasScope and Todd-AO. When both films are seen together, subtle differences may be discerned in such areas as line readings and overall pacing.
• The interiors were shot at MGM in autumn of 1954, the first time that an outside production company not released through MGM was allowed to film a feature there.
• Including the financing of the Todd-AO system, the total cost of the film was $11,000,000.
Format:
DVD
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Movie Release Year:
1955
Rating:
G
Barcode:
9321337080321
Genre:
Classics
Musical
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Show Type:
Movie
Date Added:
2018-02-07 18:35:43
Original Aspect Ratio:
2.20:1
Actors:
Rod Steiger
James Whitmore
Shirley Jones
Charlotte Greenwood
Gloria Grahame
Barbara Lawrence
Gordon MacRae
Gene Nelson
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Directors:
Fred Zinnemann
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Runtime:
134
Extras:
Audio Commentary
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Automatic Estimated Value:
~$7.98
Automatic Estimated Date:
2025-12-24
Date Added:
2018-02-07 18:35:43
