Oklahoma! - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "Oklahoma!"
Oklahoma! (1955)
Timing:
2:28 (148 min)
6.619/10
181
181
5.99/10
513
513
7/10
16000
16000
Film crew
Director
Producer
Arthur Hornblow Jr.
Producer
Editor
George Boemler
Editor
Art Direction
Joseph C. Wright
Art Direction
Costume Design
Production Design
Oliver Smith
Production Design
Set Decoration
F. Keogh Gleason
Set Decoration
Makeup Artist
Ben Lane
Makeup Artist
Director of Photography
Hairstylist
Annabell Levy
Hairstylist
Screenplay
Book
Oscar Hammerstein II
Book
Music Supervisor
Jay Blackton
Music Supervisor
Songs
Assistant Director
Arthur S. Black Jr.
Assistant Director
Edward F. Mull
Assistant Director
Music
Other
Alvord Eiseman
Other
Conductor
Adolph Deutsch
Conductor
Jay Blackton
Conductor
Music Coordinator
Robert Helfer
Music Coordinator
Digital Intermediate Colorist
Production Assistant
John Fearnley
Production Assistant
Choreographer
Sound Supervisor
Fred Hynes
Sound Supervisor
Sound Editor
Kendrick Kinney
Sound Editor
John Lipow
Sound Editor
Wardrobe Master
Frank Beetson Jr.
Wardrobe Master
Ann Peck
Wardrobe Master
Theatre Play
Lynn Riggs
Theatre Play
Music Arranger
Adolph Deutsch
Music Arranger
Robert Russell Bennett
Music Arranger
Musical
Oscar Hammerstein II
Musical
Lyricist
Oscar Hammerstein II
Lyricist
What's left behind the scenes
- 'Oklahoma!' was the first widescreen film in history shot using the Todd-AO system. Simultaneously with the 70mm widescreen version, the film was shot in the more common widescreen 'Cinemascope' system on standard 35mm film. This was done to allow cinemas without 70mm equipment to show the film. As a result, the two versions of the film differ significantly, as each uses different camera positions and editing plans.
- Finding 'corn as high as an elephant' proved difficult – it simply wasn't the season. Help had to be sought from the agricultural department of the Amazon University. They managed to grow corn over seven meters high, so producer Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) even joked that 'the corn is now as high as an elephant standing on the back of another elephant'.
- When, in one scene, the heroines Lisann Trues (1931-2013) and Jane Fisher (1930-2018) jump from a moving train straight into the arms of cowboys, everything had to be calculated very precisely. Just before the first take, a representative of the Screen Actors Guild suggested 'changing something', and it turned out that due to the danger of this action (jumping from the train), the actresses were entitled to additional payments of $250. The scene was shot in seven takes. Trues was delighted because she had recently purchased a 1951 Ford and was just making payments on it at the time.
- The film was shot in Arizona because Oklahoma was already so developed and densely built up by 1955 that it would have been difficult to find sparsely populated and underdeveloped areas from the beginning of the century, where the musical's plot unfolds.
- Preparation for filming began a year before the actual shooting commenced. During preparation, the film's art director, Joseph S. Wright (1892-1985), learned that spring floods occurred in the areas where filming was planned. The budget-conscious producers objected, but he insisted on building a dam for $15,000 anyway. When the spring waters came as he had warned, the dam saved the sets worth over $250,000 from destruction.
- “Oklahoma!” was the first widescreen film in history shot using the Todd-AO system. Simultaneously with the 70mm widescreen version, the film was shot in the more common widescreen system “CinemaScope” on standard 35mm film. This was done to allow cinemas without 70mm equipment to show the film. As a result, the two versions of the film differ significantly, as each uses different camera positions and editing plans.
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