Original
title: Oklahoma!
Danish title: Oklahoma!
English
title: Oklahoma!
Filmed in:
65mm 5 perf 30 frames per second and 35mm 4 perf anamorphic.
Principal
cinematography filmed in: Todd-AO and CinemaScope.
Presented in: 70mm and CinemaScope.
Aspect ratio: 2,21:1 (Todd-AO) 2,35:1 (CinemaScope).
Country
of origin: USA.
Year of
production: 1954, 107 days.
Released
by: Magna Theatre Corporation.
World
premiere: 13.10.1955,
Rivoli
Theatre, New York, USA. Screened for the
press 10.10.1955 at Rivoli Theatre, New York. CinemaScope version of
"Oklahoma!"
opened 01.11.1956 released by 20th Century-Fox.
Britain
premiere: 26.12.1959, Metropole Theatre, London, England.
Danish premiere: 15.02.1963,
3 Falke
Bio, Copenhagen.
Re-released in 70mm: November 1982, Oklahoma City, USA by The Samuel Goldwyn
Company. 2014: Newly
Restored Oklahoma! to open TCM Classic Film Festival
Producer: Arthur
Hornblow, Jr.
Director: Fred
Zinnemann.
Screenplay: Sonya
Levien and William Ludwig.
Director
of photography: Robert L. Surtees.
Film
editor: George Boemler.
Music:
Richard Rodgers.
Lyrics: Oscar
Hammerstein II.
Sound recorder:
Joseph I. Kane.
Art direction:
Joseph Wright.
Production designer:
Oliver Smith.
Set decorator:
Keogh Gleason.
Costumes: Orry-Kelly
and Motley.
Cast (role): Gordon
MacRae (Curly), Gloria Grahame (Ado Annie), Gene Nelson (Will Parker),
Charlotte Greenwood (Aunt Eller), Shirley Jones (Laurey), Eddie Albert (Ali
Hakim), James Whitmore (Carnes), Rod Stiger (Jud Fry), Barbara Lawrence (Gertie),
Jay C. Flippen (Skidmore), Roy Barcroft (Marshal), James Mitchell (Dream
Curley), Bambi Lynn (Dream Laurey), James Mitchell, Bambi Lynn, Jennie
Workman, Kelly Brown, Marc Platt, Lizanne Truex, Virginia Bosler, Evelyn
Tayler and Jane Fischer (Dancers), Ben Johnson (Cowboy at train depot).
Production company: Rodgers and Hammerstein Pictures, Inc.
Production
executive: Barney Briskin.
Executive
producers: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Assistant
director: Arthur Black, Jr.
Based
on: The play "Oklahoma!" by Richard Rodgers and Oscar
Hammerstein II produced on the stage by
The
Theatre Guild, Inc from the play "Green Grow the Lilacs" by
Lynn Riggs.
The stage version of "Oklahoma!" opened at St. James Theatre in
New York City on march 31, 1943.
Camera operator:
Robert Moreno.
Still photography:
Schuyler Crail.
Todd-AO technician:
Schuyler A. Sandford.
Color
consultant: Elvord Eisenman.
Supervision
film editor: Gene Ruggiero.
Music
supervisor and conducter: Jack Blackton.
Background
music arranger and supervisor: Adolph Deutsch.
Orchestrations: Robert Russel Bennet.
Dances staged by: Agnes de Mille.
Music editor: Ralph Ives.
Music
coordinator: Richard Melfer.
Re-recording:
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios and Todd- AO.
Sound
editor: Milo Lory.
Sound
recording supervisor: Fred Hynes (Todd-AO Sound Department).
Sound system: Westrex six-track magnetic stereophonic sound.
Men's
wardrobe: Frank C. Beetson.
Women's
wardrobe: Ann Peck.
Make-up
artist: Ben Lane and Ben Nye, Sr.
Hair
stylist: Anna Malin.
Second unit
cameraman: Floyd Crosby.
Locations:
MGM Studios, Culver City, USA and Nogales, Arizona, USA.
Production
start: 14.07.1954 - 06.12.1954.
Production
publicist: H. Thomas Wood.
Production
aide: John Emerson.
Todd-AO developers:
American Optical Company and Magna Theatre
Corporation.
Filmstock: Eastman
Kodak. Processing: Consolidated
Film Industries.
70mm prints:
Consolidated Film Industries (1955).
Color
by: Consolidated Film Industries (1955).
Recorded in: Westrex 6-track magnetic orthosonic sound.
Running
time: 148 minutes + Intermission.
Danish
distributor: MGM and
3 Falke
Bio.
Academy
Awards (nominations): Sound recording 1955 (Fred Hynes, Todd-AO Sound
Department). Scoring of a musical picture. (Film editing and color
cinematography).
Original
soundtrack on: Capitol Records (1955) SWAO 595 (LP). Angel Records
(1993) ZDM 0777 7 64691 2 6 (CD).
Laserdisc
on: CBS-FOX Video pan & scan 7020-80 (CinemaScope). CBS-FOX Video
Letterbox 7020-85 (CinemaScope), FOX Video 4269-85 (Todd-AO).
More reading: October 1954 American Cinematographer
Todd-AO
Newest wide screen system. April 1955 American Cinematographer Shooting
"Oklahoma!" in Todd-AO. 07.10.1955 Motion Picture Daily
Todd-AO
methods and equipment. 15.10.1955 The Independent Film Journal
Todd-AO
makes gala N.Y. Debut. 15.10.1955 The Independent Film Journal
Todd-AO
by H S Woodbridge. 15.10.1955 Showmen's trade review
"Oklahoma!"
in Todd-AO. 15.10.1955 The Independent Film Journal
The "Oklahoma!" story. October 1955
Souvenir programme "Oklahoma!". December 1986 Grant
Lobban/Image Technology
In the
splendor of 70mm #1. June 1990 SMPTE Journal/John Belton
Todd-AO: A history. 1992 Widescreen Cinema/John Belton
Todd-AO:
The hallmark of quality. 1992 Fred Zinnemann
"Oklahoma!".
May 1994 Movie collector
A brief
history of 70mm. 23.12.1994 Entertainment Weekly
"Oklahoma!" on video from 65mm elements.
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Further
in 70mm reading:
Fred Zinnemann's
"Oklahoma!" in Todd-AO
Newly Restored Oklahoma!
to open TCM Classic Film Festival
New York Times 1955 review
Hollywood
Reporter 1955 review
1955 Rivoli
1982 re-release
Newly Restored Oklahoma!
to open TCM Classic Film Festival 2014
Internet link:
Behind the scenes of Oklahoma!
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