Oklahoma!

Oklahoma!


Magna / 20th Century-Fox, 1955, Color, 145 minutes, ***½

Released October, 1955


Certainly one of the best movie musicals ever made, featuring an all-hit song score by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Great cast, great sets and costumes, great music... All of the songs are well-known.
Produced by: Arthur Hornblow, Jr.

Production Executive: Barney Briskin

Directed by: Fred Zinnemann

Assistant Director: Arthur Black, Jr.

Music by: Richard Rodgers

Book and Lyrics by: Oscar Hammerstein II

Screen Play by: Sonya Levien and William Ludwig

Adapted from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Musical Play

Based Upon a Dramatic Play by Lynn Riggs (Green Grow the Lilacs)

Originally Produced on the Stage by The Theatre Guild

Music Conducted and Supervised by: Jay Blackton

Musical Arrangements by: Robert Russell Bennett

Background Music Adapted and Conducted by: Adolph Deutsch

Dances Staged by: Agnes De Mille

Production Designed by: Oliver Smith

Art Direction by: Joseph Wright

Set Decoration: Keogh Gleason

Costumes by: Orry Kelly and Motley

Wardrobe: Frank Beetson and Ann Peck

Makeup: Ben Lane

Hair Stylist: Annabell

Recording Supervisor: Fred Hynes

Director of Photography: Robert Surtees

Color Consultant: Alvord Eiseman

Todd-AO Technician: Schuyler A. Sanford

Film Editor: Gene Ruggiero



Awards: Academy Awards for Best Score (Musical) and Best Sound Recording; Academy Award nominations for Best Color Cinematography and Best Film Editing



Cast: Gordon MacRae [Curly], Gloria Grahame [Ado Annie], Gene Nelson [Will Parker], Charlotte Greenwood [Aunt Eller], Eddie Albert [Ali Hakim], James Whitmore [Carnes], and introducing Shirley Jones [Laurey], with: Rod Steiger [Jud Fry], Barbara Lawrence [Gertie], Jay C. Flippen [Skidmore], Roy Barcroft [Marshal], Ben Johnson [Cowboy at Train Depot], The Dancers: James Mitchell [Dream Curly], Bambi Linn [Dream Laurey], Jennie Workman, Kelly Brown, Marc Platt, Lizanne Truex, Virginia Bosier, Evelyn Taylor, Jane Fischer [Dancers]



Musical Program: [0:00] Overture (played by Orchestra); [0:03] Oklahoma (played by Orchestra behind titles); [0:05] Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' (sung by Gordon MacRae); [0:09] Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' (excerpt sung by Shirley Jones); [0:10] Surrey With the Fringe On Top (sung by Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones and Charlotte Greenwood); [0:22] Kansas City (sung and danced by Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood and Ensemble); [0:31] I Cain't Say No (sung by Gloria Grahame); [0:40] I Cain't Say No (continued by Gene Nelson and Gloria Grahame); [0:41] Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' (excerpt sung by Enseble); [0:43] Many A New Day (sung and danced by Shirley Jones and Girls Chorus); [0:54] People Will Say We're In Love (sung by Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae); [1:02] Poor Jud (sung by Gordon MacRae and Rod Steiger); [1:13] Out of My Dreams (Laurey's dream sequence ballet: sung by Shirley Jones, danced by Bambi Linn, James Mitchell, Rod Steiger, and Chorus); [1:29] Intermission; [1:35] The Farmer and the Cowman (sung and danced by Gordon MacRae, Charlotte Greenwood, Gene Nelson, Jay C. Flippen, James Whitmore, Gloria Grahame and Chorus); [1:54] All er Nothin' (sung by Gene Nelson and Gloria Grahame); [2:05] People Will Say We're In Love (reprised by Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae); [2:11] Oklahoma (sung by Gordon MacRae, Charlotte Greenwood, James Whitmore, Shirley Jones, Jay C. Flippen and Chorus); [2:25] Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' (reprised by Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones and Chorus)