When Hollywood decided to make a movie adapted from the Broadway play Oklahoma in 1954 they couldn’t find a location in the Sooner State that resembled Oklahoma in 1907. Everywhere you looked was an oil well. Someone suggested southern Arizona would be an ideal place to shoot the film. So, the cast and crew headed for Nogales, Arizona.
Oklahomans were outraged to think Hollywood would shoot a film about Oklahoma achieving statehood in Arizona. The good people in Nogales stepped up and offer
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