Sixty years ago the award-winning Rogers and Hammerstein Broadway musical Oklahoma! was being finalized by Magna Theatre Corporation for theatrical release in October 1955. Surprisingly, the director was Oscar winner Fred Zinnemann, the Austrian-born director. He had won the Best Director award for From Here to Eternity in 1954, and received a Best Director nomination for High Noon in 1953. Oklahoma! is often over-looked as Zinnemann’s second Western—and first color film—according to biogr
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