History Trivia / Oklahoma

* ActorSharedBackground: Like Gertie Cummings, the late Barbara Lawrence as an Oklahoma native.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The TODD-AO version became harder to find after the 2023 expiration of 20th Century Studios' license required them to stop selling it on DVD, Blu-ray, or digital, and for Disney+ to remove it from their service. After Samuel Goldwyn Films obtained streaming and Blu-ray rights, they released a single-disc [=CinemaScope=] Blu-ray, then posted the [=CinemaScope=] version onto [=YouTube=] and Amazon Video, but not the TODD-AO version.

** A 2011 production at the University of North Carolina School for the Arts was professionally filmed for broadcast on public television, and has since been released on Youtube as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syM0JtapQ4Q two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS4NuHtiiPE part]] video. The production was notable for using archival photography, design notes, swatch books, orchestrations, and interviews with surviving members of the cast to recreate the original 1943 Broadway production as closely as possible. This seemingly simple concept was actually unprecedented due to decades of different iterations of the musical, as well as the fact that replicating every element of the production was a near impossible combination without being intentional about it: while higher-budget productions may choose to recreate the original orchestrations and Agnes de Mille's choreography, they would probably not follow Lemuel Ayers' stage design, which actually looked rather cheap due to a limited budget, nor Miles Whites' costume design which sported an almost cartoonish-array of colors that later revivals and the more-widely seen 1955 film did away with.

** A 2011 production at the University of North Carolina School for the Arts was professionally filmed for broadcast on public television, and has since been released on Youtube as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syM0JtapQ4Q two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS4NuHtiiPE part]] video. The production was notable for using archival photography, design notes, swatch books, orchestrations, and interviews with surviving members of the cast to recreate the original 1943 Broadway production as closely as possible. This seemingly simple concept was actually unprecedented due to decades of different iterations of the musical, as well as the fact that replicating every element of the production was a near impossible combination without being intentional about it: while higher-budget productions may choose to recreate the original orchestrations and Agnes de Mille's choreography, they would probably not follow Samuel Ayers' stage design (which actually looked rather cheap due to a limited budget – this was before Broadway musicals were the true big-budget affairs they are today) nor Miles Whites' costume design (whichy sported an almost cartoonish-array of colors that later revivals and the more-widely seen 1955 film did away with).

** A 2011 production at the University of North Carolina School for the Arts was professionally filmed for broadcast on public television, and has since been released on Youtube as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syM0JtapQ4Q two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS4NuHtiiPE part]] video. The production was notable for using archival photography, design notes, swatch books, orchestrations, and interviews with surviving members of the cast to recreate the original 1943 Broadway production as closely as possible – a seemingly simple concept that was actually unprecedented due to decades of different iterations of the musical, as well as the fact that the original stage designs were in fact rather cheap-looking due to a limited budget, and Miles Whites' costumes sported an almost cartoonish-array of colors that later revivals and the more-widely seen 1955 film did away with.

** A 2011 production at the University of North Carolina School for the Arts was professionally filmed for broadcast on public television, and has since been released on YouTube as a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syM0JtapQ4Q two] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS4NuHtiiPE part] video. The production was notable for using archival photography, design notes, swatch books, orchestrations, and interviews with surviving members of the cast to recreate the original 1943 Broadway production as closely as possible – a seemingly simple concept that was actually unprecedented due to decades of different iterations of the musical, as well as the fact that the original stage designs were in fact rather cheap-looking due to a limited budget, and Miles Whites' costumes sported an almost cartoonish-array of colors that later revivals and the more-widely seen 1955 film did away with.

* FilmedStageProduction: The 1998 West End revival (starring Creator/HughJackman) was filmed for television and video release. The filmed version combines footage recorded at actual performances with footage filmed in special sessions without an audience to capture close-ups and other camera angles that would be impractical to capture live.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The TODD-AO version became harder to find after the 2023 expiration of 20th Century Studios' license required them to stop selling it on DVD, Blu-ray, or digital, and for Disney+ to remove it from their service. After Samuel Goldwyn Films obtained streaming and Blu-ray rights, they announced a single-disc Blu-ray, then posted the [=CinemaScope=] version onto [=YouTube=] and Amazon Video, but not the TODD-AO version.

* ChannelHop: When Creator/{{Disney}} acquired Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox in 2020, they acquired the rights to all of Fox's R&H films, including this one. From 2021-'23, its TODD-AO version and ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' were the only big-screen Rodgers and Hammerstein adaptations available on Creator/DisneyPlus. In late 2023, the movie hopped again to the Samuel Goldwyn Company, who previously redistributed it to cinemas in 1982.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The TODD-AO version became harder to find after the 2023 expiration of 20th Century Studios' license required them to stop selling it on DVD, Blu-ray, or digital, and for Disney+ to remove it from their service. After the Samuel Goldwyn Company obtained streaming and Blu-ray rights, they announced a single-disc Blu-ray, then posted the [=CinemaScope=] version onto [=YouTube=] and Amazon Video, but not the TODD-AO version.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The TODD-AO version became harder to find after the 2023 expiration of 20th Century Studios' license required them to stop selling it on DVD, Blu-ray, or digital, and for Disney+ to remove it from their service. After the Samuel Goldwyn Company obtained streaming and Blu-ray rights, they posted the [=CinemaScope=] version onto [=YouTube=] and Amazon Video, but not the TODD-AO version. Additionally, pre-order pages for their indefinitely-delayed Blu-ray revealed it as a single-disc edition.

* ChannelHop: When Creator/{{Disney}} acquired Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox in 2020, they acquired the rights to all of Fox's R&H films, including this one. From 2021-'23, its TODD-AO version and ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'' were the only big-screen Rodgers and Hammerstein adaptations available on Creator/DisneyPlus.

* ChannelHop: When Creator/{{Disney}} acquired Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox in 2020, they acquired the rights to all of Fox's R&H films, including this one.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Nogales, Arizona stands in for Oklahoma in the 1955 film.
* ChannelHop: When Creator/{{Disney}} acquired Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox in 2020, they acquired the rights to all of Fox's R&H films, including this one.

** "It's A Scandal! It's An Outrage!" and "A Lonely Room" are cut from the film version. An instrumental of the latter still plays during part of Laurey's dream ballet.

* MilestoneCelebration: In 1994, Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox threw a belated celebration of the original Broadway production's 50th anniversary, which they promoted as the "Golden Anniversary" of Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals as a whole, by re-releasing almost every R&H theatrical movie in their possession on VHS, with bonus features consisting of an audiocassette, and either a trailer or a newsreel of the movie's premiere.
* ProductionPosse: In the film, just about every dancer in the Dream Ballet had worked with Agnes de Mille on a regular basis.
* SelfAdaptation: Agnes de Mille adapted her choreography from the 1943 Broadway production for the 1955 film.

** Casting options for the film included Creator/MontgomeryClift, Creator/JamesDean or Creator/PaulNewman as Curly, Creator/EvaMarieSaint as Laurey, Creator/MarlonBrando or Creator/EliWallach as Jud Fry and Creator/DebbieReynolds as Ado Annie Carnes.
** An animated adaptation was originally going to be produced by Rich Animation Studios. The critical and commercial failure of ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI'' ended those plans.