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Oklahoma! was the first feature film photographed in the Todd-AO 70 mm widescreen process (and was simultaneously filmed in CinemaScope 35mm). Set in Oklahoma Territory shortly after the turn of the 20th century, it tells the story of farm girl Laurey Williams (Jones) and her courtship by two rival suitors, cowboy Curly McLain (MacRae) and the ...
Where the Lilies Bloom is a 1974 American drama film directed by William A. Graham [1] and starring Julie Gholson, Harry Dean Stanton, Rance Howard, and Jan Smithers.Based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Bill and Vera Cleaver, it follows four underage siblings in Appalachia who attempt to conceal the death of their widowed father to avoid being separated.
Cimarron is a novel by Edna Ferber, published in April 1930 and based on development in Oklahoma after the Land Rush. The book was adapted into a critically acclaimed film of the same name, released in 1931 through RKO Pictures. The story was again adapted for the screen by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was released in 1960, to meager success.
The movie won best Indigenous feature and best narrative feature at Oklahoma City's 2023 deadCenter Film Festival, where Tremblay also was named an Oklahoma Film Icon Award winner.
"Killers of the Flower Moon" star Lily Gladstone also was named best actress by the oldest critics group in the country.
Oklahoma! is the first musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein.The musical is based on Lynn Riggs's 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs.Set in farm country outside the town of Claremore, Indian Territory, in 1906, it tells the story of farm girl Laurey Williams and her courtship by two rival suitors, cowboy Curly McLain and the sinister and frightening farmhand Jud Fry.
Well, the movie is an adaptation of a stage musical of the same name, created by Jonathan Larson. And Larson did in fact write the musical by pulling from his own experiences of trying to make it ...
On his way to California, a doctor, John Brighton, decides to stay in Oklahoma Territory after his wife dies in childbirth. He takes a room at the home of elderly Mrs. Fitzgerald, who helps raise his new daughter Louise.