The movie adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's wildly successful Broadway musical Oklahoma! opened in theaters across the US, November 16, 1956, the forty-ninth birthday of the state. It had premiered in Los Angeles and Chicago the previous year.
It starred Gordon MacRae as Curly and Shirley Jones as Laurey. Eddie Albert, James Whitmore, and Rod Steiger also appeared.
Oklahoma! was nominated for four Academy Awards and won two: Best Sound Recording and Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture. The two other nominations were for Best Cinematography, Color and Best Film Editing.
On the centennial birthday of Oklahoma, November 16, 2007, the movie was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.
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