I can't get over how perfectly cast everyone was - how could Gordon MacRae be so handsome and so talented with such a great voice and embody the role of Curly so well? And Gloria Grahame as Ado Annie and Gene Nelson as Will Parker - so perfect in their roles. Ado Annie is my favorite. Every line she says or 'sings" (yes her voice was not great, but it was so perfect for the role) is so well done!
@@missamericana.4 That's WHAT I SAID. Why are you just repeating what I already stated? they didn't give him a permanent; his wife Sheila helped curl his locks the night before shooting. He hated it but so what? The role would not have made sense if his hair wasn't curly and he'd still be called Curly. 🙄
I think her version of Aunt Eller would be the type of person to vouch for you to help get you out of trouble. Not to mention, she’d make a good reference when filling out a job application
The first movie I’ve seen with her was Young People with Shirley Temple in her last film role as a child star before her contract with 20th Century was terminated
1955 still as brilliant as it was then. Music costumes dancing all these musical,s have defied the test of time and remain fresh and entertaining as there were then .
Just a great scene from a great movie, thanks much for posting. Even though 60 years have passed, this production stands the test of time and is a tribute to all who acted, sang, and danced in this show. May God Bless them all for the enjoyment they continue to bring us to this day.
In all of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals there is always the character of an older woman who is very wise and when the plot needs a little bit of pushing she is right there. In Oklahoma it is Aunt Eller, in carousel it is cousin Nettie, in flower drum song it is the Aunt, in South Pacific it is bloody Mary, in The King and I it is the king's head wife, have in the sound of music it is the mother abbess
It's funny - watching this now as an adult I see the obvious thematic links between this setpiece and the "Dance At The Gym" scene from West Side Story. As in Oklahoma, so in Hell's Kitchen.
Fred Hynes was the recording engineer in this film responsible for the amazing 6-Track Stereo Surround Sound, which earned him an Oscar for Best Sound Recording for this movie and FOUR more times for subsequent films. All done on vacuum tube equipment (which he built). Back in the day, most people watching it were not in theaters equipped with the TODD-AO sound system, so it took nearly 50 years until home theater become common for the recording skill could be appreciated.
I first saw this wonderful film Oklahoma, at the age of 12 in 1955. It left such huge impression on me and for the rest of my life. Shirley Jones was “Laurey” after an audition for Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. They didn’t take long to make up their minds after hearing her beautiful voice. After that audition, later she answered her phone to hear a voice saying ‘Hello Laurey’. And the rest is history. I believe she is the only one left standing from that movie. She is occasionally interviewed and she looks as beautiful as ever. How wonderful to be able to combine so much beauty with such talent. Shirley and Gordon, what a great combination of actors, again in Carousel. That movie had so much going for it but lacked the magic of Oklahoma. I heard that R&H were not allowed to direct that movie and it certainly showed. Gordon and Shirley’s first song together in Carousel “If I loved you” had a fake background of Silver Birch trees as a background, which spoilt the whole song for me. The soliloquy along the beach ‘My boy Bill’ sung by G.M. was top stuff. As was the end scene when he had to return to the star maker, leaving his wife and daughter to go on with their lives. They both knew that he had ‘visited’ them during the singing of the song ‘You’ll never walk alone’ was a real tearjerker. Endless thanks to R&H for all the wonderful songs, from many musicals, that you gave us.
“On par with THE SOUND OF MUSIC”? NO FRIGGIN’ WAY TOMORROW OR TODAY! This film had a better story, more cogent, better plotted, more balanced with the characters and a far, far better score. Don’t forget THE KING AND I either.
LOL!!!! Thanks for posting the lyrics! For years, I've been mistakenly hearing: "Cowboys dance with farmer's daughters, Farmers dance with the ranchers' COWS".
Charlotte Greenwood and Bert Lahr (the Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz) have a cute and racy-for-its-day musical number together in a pre-Code movie from 1931 called Flying High. I watched it because I wanted to see what he'd done before Oz, and I recognized her. She was 6 feet tall in her youth!
Such censorship in 1955. "I don't say I'm no better than anybody else, but I'll be daNGed if am jist as good". Any stage production says "damn" damn it LOL...in 1939 they finally left in Frankly my dear I don't give a damn, in Gone with the Wind.
@multilingual972: Most people with a brain knowing the stage score would know and other alterations but “fanged” is perfectly understandable. Dang, can’t you understand that??
@@johnpickford4222 I think you are totally wrong. The only comments I make in UA-cam are positive or objective observations. Any further comments from you will be totally disregarded on my part.
That is true! Before that, film makers would take too much CB liberties with musicals that it would barely resemble the stage version. Oklahoma changed that!
Laurey shoving that creepy Jud off the cart and leaving him in the dust is one of the most underrated movie moments, ever. Truly a badass move on her part, and he really had it coming.
i grew up singing the songs from this musical as well as many others in car drives from SF to LA. i still appreciate the entertainment AND now i realize how much history was left out for the sake of entertainment ... people of european origin brutally colonized the western hemisphere .... aigu ... i once tried to talk to my 1st generation korean father about the internment of japanese americans and sadly (to me) he said, well the japanese did worse to the koreans ... and this rendition does try to present the conflict between what we would now consider the same white people ... differentiated by work ...
@exchequerguy4037: Because you’re an idiot 1) to think that and 2) to admit it publicly. PS: SOUTH PACIFIC is not just the name of s musical but a body of water!!!
Oh, the farmer and the Cartman should be friennnnnnnds! Yes, the farmer and the Cartman should be friennnnnnnds! He tips over the bovines, and spray-paints cuss words on the swine, but that's no reason why they can't be friennnnnnnds!
Great as the "Oklahoma!" film is, this number is very badly staged on an obvious indoor set. It should have been filmed outdoors, like the "Kansas City" number was. Some of the camera angles give away the backdrop just a few feet away, and the dancing part in the second half has no excitement at all. On the plus side, the orchestra in this song is the best part of the film!
No. It would've been TECHNICALLY too difficult to film this number outdoors. It's supposed to be at dusk; can you imagine matching the lighting for every second of the sequence? Plus, if it's already dark, then the (absence of depth) in the background shouldn't really matter, should it??
I thought this was filmed outside till I saw your comment then I looked close and you can but it's not the backdrop and filming location that matters it's the scene and acting that matters
@Camop-iz9kt: No, really?!?! It looks like it’s outdoors, really. I never knew that. Next thing you’ll be saying is that somebody did Audrey Hepburn’s singing in MY FAIR LADY.
The role of “Ado Annie” most certainly could have bettered. Gloria Grahame was very mannered, NO SINGER and not much of a figure. She was no CELESTE HOLM!!
Randy Rainbow brought me here.
Me, too!
SAME
Same😂
Me too!! lol
same. Doing great service for musical theater
This is the very best musical ever. Full Stop
I agree with you. Rodgers and Hammerstein's BEST!
I can't get over how perfectly cast everyone was - how could Gordon MacRae be so handsome and so talented with such a great voice and embody the role of Curly so well? And Gloria Grahame as Ado Annie and Gene Nelson as Will Parker - so perfect in their roles. Ado Annie is my favorite. Every line she says or 'sings" (yes her voice was not great, but it was so perfect for the role) is so well done!
Except look at MacRae's hair. The "curly" look doesn't look too natural.
@@mylesgarcia4625 It wasn't natural, they had to give him a permanent for the film, and he had to use rollers, which he absolutely hated.
@@missamericana.4 That's WHAT I SAID. Why are you just repeating what I already stated? they didn't give him a permanent; his wife Sheila helped curl his locks the night before shooting. He hated it but so what? The role would not have made sense if his hair wasn't curly and he'd still be called Curly. 🙄
This movie was worth watching just for the beautiful blonde Lizanne Truex. What a doll!
My favourite Musicsl
CHARLOTTE Greenwood was a consummate actress. No one else could have stole' the scene as she. Love her ❤❤❤❤
I think her version of Aunt Eller would be the type of person to vouch for you to help get you out of trouble. Not to mention, she’d make a good reference when filling out a job application
The first movie I’ve seen with her was Young People with Shirley Temple in her last film role as a child star before her contract with 20th Century was terminated
I was Curly Wednesday and Friday and Will Parker Thursday and Saturdauy McKeesport 1985
1955 still as brilliant as it was then. Music costumes dancing all these musical,s have defied the test of time and remain fresh and entertaining as there were then .
As a millennial, I’m a fan of the classics almost as I am of contemporary musicals!
Just a great scene from a great movie, thanks much for posting. Even though 60 years have passed, this production stands the test of time and is a tribute to all who acted, sang, and danced in this show. May God Bless them all for the enjoyment they continue to bring us to this day.
+TheGman2421
Superb, hard to believe it was by the same director as that of the dark thriller, "Bunny Lake is Missing".
Aunt Eller was possibly the most sensible character in this musical, wasn't she?
Aunt Eller rook no prisoners!
Aunt Eller was definitely the funniest as well!!
Aunt Eller also saves Curly from the Little Wonder trap.
In all of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals there is always the character of an older woman who is very wise and when the plot needs a little bit of pushing she is right there.
In Oklahoma it is Aunt Eller, in carousel it is cousin Nettie, in flower drum song it is the Aunt, in South Pacific it is bloody Mary, in The King and I it is the king's head wife, have in the sound of music it is the mother abbess
You’re right, you know!😲
"Ain't nobody gonna slug out anythin'! This here's a party!"
Aunt Eller is by far the best character and the wisest.
"Sing it Andrew, Dum De Um Dum Dum..."
@@jeffreysnydr "Oh the farmer and the cowman should be friends."
Aunt Eller kicked butt!
Except for when she points the gun at others.
Is Virginia Bosler the girl in the white dress with pink sash?
It's funny - watching this now as an adult I see the obvious thematic links between this setpiece and the "Dance At The Gym" scene from West Side Story. As in Oklahoma, so in Hell's Kitchen.
Fred Hynes was the recording engineer in this film responsible for the amazing 6-Track Stereo Surround Sound, which earned him an Oscar for Best Sound Recording for this movie and FOUR more times for subsequent films. All done on vacuum tube equipment (which he built). Back in the day, most people watching it were not in theaters equipped with the TODD-AO sound system, so it took nearly 50 years until home theater become common for the recording skill could be appreciated.
I first saw this wonderful film Oklahoma, at the age of 12 in 1955. It left such huge impression on me and for the rest of my life. Shirley Jones was “Laurey” after an audition for Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. They didn’t take long to make up their minds after hearing her beautiful voice. After that audition, later she answered her phone to hear a voice saying ‘Hello Laurey’. And the rest is history. I believe she is the only one left standing from that movie. She is occasionally interviewed and she looks as beautiful as ever. How wonderful to be able to combine so much beauty with such talent. Shirley and Gordon, what a great combination of actors, again in Carousel. That movie had so much going for it but lacked the magic of Oklahoma. I heard that R&H were not allowed to direct that movie and it certainly showed. Gordon and Shirley’s first song together in Carousel “If I loved you” had a fake background of Silver Birch trees as a background, which spoilt the whole song for me. The soliloquy along the beach ‘My boy Bill’ sung by G.M. was top stuff. As was the end scene when he had to return to the star maker, leaving his wife and daughter to go on with their lives. They both knew that he had ‘visited’ them during the singing of the song ‘You’ll never walk alone’ was a real tearjerker.
Endless thanks to R&H for all the wonderful songs, from many musicals, that you gave us.
Charlotte Greenwood never got the recognition her talent deserved.
A musical masterpiece! On par with the Sound of Music!
“On par with THE SOUND OF MUSIC”? NO FRIGGIN’ WAY TOMORROW OR TODAY! This film had a better story, more cogent, better plotted, more balanced with the characters and a far, far better score. Don’t forget THE KING AND I either.
We certainly can agree they are both on par. Especially they have the same songwriters
Aunt Eller declaring that "Cowboys Lives Matter!" lol.
I played Aunt Eller in my senior year of high school. Felt like a badass shooting the gun lol
LOL!!!! Thanks for posting the lyrics! For years, I've been mistakenly hearing: "Cowboys dance with farmer's daughters,
Farmers dance with the ranchers' COWS".
LOL oh no 😂
@gunnarthorsen: We’ll, you’ve heard about lonely sheep ranchers but I don’t think the farmers would be doing that with the cows!! Moo-no way!
I LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH !!!!!!!
I love my boy Gordon sporting that damn vest. 😍
Charlotte Greenwood and Bert Lahr (the Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz) have a cute and racy-for-its-day musical number together in a pre-Code movie from 1931 called Flying High. I watched it because I wanted to see what he'd done before Oz, and I recognized her. She was 6 feet tall in her youth!
Such censorship in 1955. "I don't say I'm no better than anybody else, but I'll be daNGed if am jist as good". Any stage production says "damn" damn it LOL...in 1939 they finally left in Frankly my dear I don't give a damn, in Gone with the Wind.
@multilingual972: Most people with a brain knowing the stage score would know and other alterations but “fanged” is perfectly understandable. Dang, can’t you understand that??
@@johnpickford4222 I think you are totally wrong. The only comments I make in UA-cam are positive or objective observations. Any further comments from you will be totally disregarded on my part.
Too funny! For years, I mis-heard the lyrics as, "Cowboys dance with farmer's daughters, farmers dance with the ranchers' cows!"
Guess it depends on where you came from.
The 50's and 60's. Back when people cared about stage to screen transfers enough to put actual effort into them.
That is true! Before that, film makers would take too much CB liberties with musicals that it would barely resemble the stage version. Oklahoma changed that!
One more recent stage to screen adaptation you watch is In The Heights! I know Lin Manual Miranda is no R+H but still
Anybody else noticed, Ado Annies Dad only sings when the gun is pointed at him! I support cowmen all the way!
I have this on Blu-Ray. It has two DVD's, one is the "Todd-AO" version which looks like 4K high definition. It makes this movie almost look 3-D!
One of my favorite Act 2 openings ever!
I am currently doing this production in my church
@toonguy06: You’re doing this in a church?? Where do you do THE SOUND OF MUSIC, on a ranch??
I love aunt Eller.
Me too! Sadly, she was arrested shortly after this scene for assault with an unregistered handgun and is now doing time in the Claremore hoosegow.
My girlfriend played Aunt Eller
Gene Nelson!! 🩷🩷🩷🩷
Laurey shoving that creepy Jud off the cart and leaving him in the dust is one of the most underrated movie moments, ever. Truly a badass move on her part, and he really had it coming.
Aunt Eller is the most badass character in the entire movie. 😂
The Gunshot always makes jump during this number
Great song..great lyrics...makes me think of I Like to be in America from West Side Story...
Man I wish there were awards back in 85 McKeesport was awesome
Mahalo Gracias Grazie Thanks Kahmsahahmnidah to Agnes DeMille
i grew up singing the songs from this musical as well as many others in car drives from SF to LA. i still appreciate the entertainment AND now i realize how much history was left out for the sake of entertainment ... people of european origin brutally colonized the western hemisphere .... aigu ... i once tried to talk to my 1st generation korean father about the internment of japanese americans and sadly (to me) he said, well the japanese did worse to the koreans ... and this rendition does try to present the conflict between what we would now consider the same white people ... differentiated by work ...
we watched the play version of this in my drama class
The one with Hugh Jackman?
3:15 😂😂😂 sing happy songs to end fights lol
Edit: 3:29, only guns end fights haha
4:26 is definitely my favourite line!!!
I got cast as Carnes in our high school rendition and man am I nervous for our performance lol
You'll do great.
@@coolidgedollar2154thank you so much
I love the fact you have to connect with your kids
When Aunt Ellet spanks Annie 😂😂😂😂😂
She pulled out the blicky
Go on you know you want to
Great
"Danged"
Virginia Bosler - always the most beautiful presence in any movie scene…
In my play I'm Gertie
🌈
I’m looking for the auction scene.
@lggywiggywoo: Keep looking or buy the DVD.
4:35 LMAO XD XD
Aunt Eller be like, "Sing you bastards sing!"
Are you for farmers or cowmen? I am for cowmen.
Cowmen!!!
Cowmen all the way (mainly because of Curly and Will haha)
"The farmer steals her butt cheese"? Damn farmers are cold-blooded.
Chuck the dog *butter and cheese
Funniest thing I read all day.
I think that's "butt cheeks."🤠
Once again, Family Guy leads me to a gem
To think for years I associated Oklahoma with college football ...
@exchequerguy4037: Because you’re an idiot 1) to think that and 2) to admit it publicly. PS: SOUTH PACIFIC is not just the name of s musical but a body of water!!!
Oh, the farmer and the Cartman should be friennnnnnnds!
Yes, the farmer and the Cartman should be friennnnnnnds!
He tips over the bovines, and spray-paints cuss words on the swine, but that's no reason why they can't be friennnnnnnds!
That grandma is gangstah
'I don't say I'm no better than anybody else...' really doesn't make sense.
hahaha
Great as the "Oklahoma!" film is, this number is very badly staged on an obvious indoor set. It should have been filmed outdoors, like the "Kansas City" number was. Some of the camera angles give away the backdrop just a few feet away, and the dancing part in the second half has no excitement at all. On the plus side, the orchestra in this song is the best part of the film!
No. It would've been TECHNICALLY too difficult to film this number outdoors. It's supposed to be at dusk; can you imagine matching the lighting for every second of the sequence? Plus, if it's already dark, then the (absence of depth) in the background shouldn't really matter, should it??
I thought this was filmed outside till I saw your comment then I looked close and you can but it's not the backdrop and filming location that matters it's the scene and acting that matters
@Camop-iz9kt: No, really?!?! It looks like it’s outdoors, really. I never knew that. Next thing you’ll be saying is that somebody did Audrey Hepburn’s singing in MY FAIR LADY.
Chinese lanterns?
The Chinese were brought in to build many of the railroads in the West.
the least vain eller was
The Simpsons, Milhouse of Sand and Fog, brought me here
@DH-mf6rd: What will take you away for good??
The role of “Ado Annie” most certainly could have bettered. Gloria Grahame was very mannered, NO SINGER and not much of a figure. She was no CELESTE HOLM!!
Who came from family guy 👇
This is terrible…where is Superman or Batman or Tom Cruise jumping out of plane into the barn?