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Release Date: 1955

Cast: Rod Steiger, Gordon MacRae, Barbara Lawrence, Jerry Dealey, Jay C. Flippen, Shirley Jones, Al Ferguson, Gloria Grahame, Eddie Albert, Lizanne Truex, Ben Johnson, Charlotte Greenwood ...MORE

Cast: Rod Steiger, Gordon MacRae, Barbara Lawrence, Jerry Dealey, Jay C. Flippen, Shirley Jones, Al Ferguson, Gloria Grahame, Eddie Albert, Lizanne Truex, Ben Johnson, Charlotte Greenwood, Donald Kerr, Gene Nelson, Roy Barcroft, Bambi Linn, James Whitmore ...LESS

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Oklahoma! is a 1955 musical film based on the 1943 musical play Oklahoma!, written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II and starring Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones (in her film debut), Rod Steiger, Charlotte Greenwood, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, James Whitmore and Eddie Albert. The production was the first musical directed by Fred Zinnemann. Oklahoma! was the first feature film photographed in the Todd-AO 70 mm widescreen process. Reviews of the film were mixed by the film critics. In 2007, Oklahoma! was selected for preservation in the United States... MORE

Oklahoma! is a 1955 musical film based on the 1943 musical play Oklahoma!, written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II and starring Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones (in her film debut), Rod Steiger, Charlotte Greenwood, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, James Whitmore and Eddie Albert. The production was the first musical directed by Fred Zinnemann. Oklahoma! was the first feature film photographed in the Todd-AO 70 mm widescreen process. Reviews of the film were mixed by the film critics. In 2007, Oklahoma! was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Development of a film version of Oklahoma! dates as far back as 1943, when the musical first opened on Broadway. United Artists, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and MGM were among the many Hollywood studios interested in the project. Ultimately, the film rights were bought by the Magna Theatre Corporation, a company founded by George Skouras, Joseph Schenck, and Michael Todd. Magna was initially founded in order to develop a new widescreen process Todd created, called "Todd-AO," LESS