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  1. Oklahoma! is a 1955 American musical film based on the 1943 musical of the same name by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, which in turn was based on the 1931 play Green Grow the Lilacs written by Lynn Riggs. It stars Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones (in her film debut), Rod Steiger, Charlotte Greenwood, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, James ...

  2. Oklahoma!: Directed by Fred Zinnemann. With Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood. In Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.

    • (14K)
    • Comedy, Drama, Musical
    • Fred Zinnemann
    • 1956-11-23
  3. But they chose to wait until the stage show had finished its run before considering a film version. By the early 1950s, they were ready to make a deal. What sold them on making a film of Oklahoma! (1955) was the new 65-mm. wide-screen process called Todd-AO, which would allow them to show the wide-open landscapes that the stage could only suggest.

    • Fred Zinnemann
    • Gordon Macrae
  4. 1955 Motion Picture. The blockbuster film adaptation of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City on October 11, 1955. The film was the first ever shot and presented in the Todd-AO 70mm Widescreen format, which required some theatres to have their screen areas renovated. It was also the first to have a ...

  5. Oklahoma!, American musical film, released in 1955, that was based on the Broadway musical (1943) written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The love of two cowboys for their sweethearts is tested in the days before the Oklahoma territory’s acceptance of statehood. Curly (played by Gordon MacRae) and ...

    • Lee Pfeiffer
  6. Build 3fc55b6 (7699) In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.

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  8. There's a box social coming up, and Curly (Gordon MacRae) asks Laurey (Shirley Jones) if she'll be his date. Trouble is, Laurey thinks he's waited too long, and in a fit of pique accepts an offer ...

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    • Musical
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