James Mitchell passed away in 2010. Bambi Lynn is one of the still surviving cast members of the original opening night production of "Oklahoma" (1943) she is currently 97. God bless her.

what a gorgeous melody - Shirley Jones does it beautifully

@leojbramble

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, this song isn't exactly underrated, but it definitely doesn't get the attention or recordings it deserves. Not sure why...

@user-il5oq5df6l

2 ай бұрын

Shirley sings this number beautifully.

This is so beautiful and so well-crafted that it feels real instead of silly or cheesy. Amazing dancers. Pretty much blows my mind.

@royalty8380

2 жыл бұрын

The only thing silly and cheesy in this is the men in the saloon dancing the Chicken Dance

@royalty8380

2 жыл бұрын

+ the Cowboys dancing to Gangnam Style

@kellymcphaul2793

Жыл бұрын

@@royalty8380 I just saw this, made me wheeze-laugh 😂

@jerrykitich3318

10 ай бұрын

Silly or cheesy 🧀? Them's fightin' words.

The DREAM SEQUENCE was excellent. I enjoyed it very much. No words were spoken but you received the message . !!!!!!

This whole ballet is a masterpiece of choreography and dancer's craft. It adds so much to the story and characters without a single word; visual storytelling at its best. The saloon scene in particular is a great imagining of the sort of life Laurey would live if she chose Jud - especially the moment where Jud drops Laurey and begins dancing with one of the other women, implying that as possessive of her as he is, there’s a strong chance he wouldn’t even be faithful to her in the long run once he found someone else to fixate on. Unlike Curly who will always be devoted to her and would risk his life for her, which he ultimately does more than once in the real world.

@davidallen508

Жыл бұрын

Another interpretation to yours ; Laurey nurtured a secret fantasy, to be ravaged by Jud even though she feared him.

@charlie-obrien

26 күн бұрын

@@davidallen508 Yours is just an aggressive man's fantasy. Laurey could be ravaged by the man she loves, Curly as well as loved tenderly. Something Jud could never do.

Such a difficult song perfectly executed. I love her voice

Probably the most memorable sequence in all of Oklahoma. Genius. Beautifully choreographed and danced. A Freudian banquet!

@anarcho-communist11

4 ай бұрын

I agree. Partly because It was unusual for innocent musicals to have this touch of darkness.

The story goes that from 11:07 to 11:28, Agnes DeMille told the dancers to think of themselves as "diseased Chrismas ornaments."

One of The Greatest Musical Numbers on Film....Just Lush, and Gorgeous, yet Hauntingly Beautiful ( The Girls in The Salon)...

I shared this with my tween and she LOVED it!! The dancing, costumes, etc..This is beautiful..The choreography..No one today can come remotely close to this...So talented...I feel so lucky to be able to appreciate and be able to share this with my daughter...It is important to keep these musicals alive..not let the brilliance of this time fade away..

@valeriebellomo3573

3 жыл бұрын

I so agree with you. I miss the beautiful musicals America used to enjoy!

Besides the magnificent score and dancing, let us not forget the brilliant choreography by Agnes de Mille. Cinematography by Robert Surtees and Floyd Crosby.

@royalty8380

Жыл бұрын

Only Floyd wasn't credited

Great vocal by Shirley on 'Out of my Dreams' and great choreography and dancing in the 'Dream Ballet'.

Oh my god. I remember the scary part of this scene used to really creep me out when I was a kid.

@KurtBenning

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@julistarling8382

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. Also the other creepy parts with Curly and Jud. I really kept thinking that Jud was going to *actually* kill either himself or Curly or maybe both. I know it's not that kind of movie and probably already knew that too when I was nine or ten, but was still creeped out anyway. Which basically just means that they did a good job with the scenes.

@Wolfmanluv

2 жыл бұрын

@@julistarling8382 yes that part is creepy when Jud almost killed Curly with the kaleidoscope thing, "the little wonder" or whatever it was

James Mitchell and Bambi Lynn are the dream Curley and Laurie. Rod Steiger is the only movie star lead in the whole ballet.

Watching this beautiful ballet....and the Music! Brings such emotion for me. First time I saw the film..12 years old. So scared of Jud's women...

This is my first time hearing This song as I have to learn it for this Thursday and wow it’s amazing

Everyone just leaving her is so scary and the “prostitutes/ saloon girls?” Their costumes are genius.

@elizabethmurphy9384

Жыл бұрын

I love the way the dance hall girls are just phoning it in, not giving it any real juice. That same bored attitude is seen in Big Spender from Sweet Charity.

...my heartfelt favorite from the whole movie...

Rodgers and Hammerstein classic from the lips of Shirley Jones, the non-pareil 'Laurie'. Thank you!

I love the bit where Curly shoots at Jud, but Jud takes no damage. It’s incredibly creepy...

@kellymcphaul2793

4 жыл бұрын

Joosh That scared the crap out of me when I was little.

@jeffreyhunter4966

4 жыл бұрын

It means Jud is indestructible

@julistarling8382

2 жыл бұрын

He's like some kind of zombie monster or something (in that part of the dream sequence, that is) (fortunately *not* in the rest of the movie). If he were *actually* like that then this would be *really* scary. 😨😳😨 You know those "what if this were a horror movie?" trailers for other movies? I'm thinking that maybe this movie needs one. They could just use that sequence. It's certainly scary enough. 😨 😨 😨

That Palmer Cortland sure can dance.

This is probably my all time favorite next to Show Boat. The music is incredible. Did the show in College in the early 90s at UNLV. We broke Box Office records

And when the men come in on their imaginary horses is the best.

Beautiful song from my childhood

This is the one i was dreaming of.

This movie is far better than is advertised. It is quite archetypical.

A fabulous waltz number...

This was one of the best things I watch in any movie that I watched!🤩

I searched long.. My dad loves this scenes very much

I did that play of Oklahoma at elmwood playhouse last year and I was the role of Laurey

RIP Jane Fischer 9/5/2018- she was the long, darkhaired schoolgirl paired with the late Lizanne Truex.

@bobzeschin3154

5 жыл бұрын

I couldn't disagree more with the two guys who said this sequence is a waste of celluloid. To me, the ballet and Charlotte Greenwood are the best things in the movie (after the score, of course), and the dancers are its unsung heroines. According to IMDB, Bambi Linn (Dream Laurie), who was in her teens when the Broadway production opened in 1943, is still with us at age 92.

@lauracorbett4577

5 жыл бұрын

Ruby Marlowe I wish someone would upload the part where they gave Laurie and Curly a shivaree and Jud sets the hay stacks on fires and tries to stab Curly with a knife but Curly jumps on Jud and the knife stabs him instead

11:18 that scene creeped me out when i was a kid, the dancer looks dead

I don’t want to get graphic but the scene right after the wedding with all the women in colorful dresses literally feels like your watching all of the women and the “bride” get sexually abused by the men, like when all the men are holding the women up and they look dead, it’s actually really intense if you think of it in that way.(sorry it’s been SO long since I’ve watched this movie so I don’t know names, like I know the bride has an actual name) I don’t know for sure if that’s what they were going for, or maybe just an unhappy marriage approach, like I said I haven’t seen this movie in awhile.

@mariekazyak5233

3 жыл бұрын

The bride's name is Laurey in the movie and yes, I personally think that was the point. Jud and the saloon men were lustful, not loving and that's the difference between Jud and Curly.

@fourthgirl

3 жыл бұрын

Life with Jud would mean him turning Laurey into a disrespectful woman like the ones working the saloons and on the playing cards he likes.

@valeriebellomo3573

3 жыл бұрын

Of course. That's the precise point of the scene!

@valeriebellomo3573

2 жыл бұрын

That's the exact point of that scene. Women hanging limp after being abused by vulgar men

@Marcel_Audubon

Жыл бұрын

sometimes it's better to just not comment if the best you have is uninformed word salad. You're not required to comment, hunny.

The magic of edited footage only enhances, rather than diminishing Agnes' De Mille's groundbreaking choreography.

I first saw this when I was about 10 (1967) . . . and even then, I kind of "went" more for Jud's "Painted Floozies" than Laurie. :-)

@valeriebellomo3573

2 жыл бұрын

Lol..

I finally realized why James Mitchell was cast as Dream Curley instead of the original, Marc Platt who was doing a lot of film dancing . In the film, the switch from real Laurie and Curley to Dream Laurie and Curley was done on screen and required similar appearance for the audience to understand that these dancers were supposed to be Laurie and Curley. James Mitchell was a good fit for Gordon Macrae, short and rather stocky. Marc Platt was tall blond and willowy. Their concern for similar appearance went so far as to cast Rod Steiger in the dance because they did not think they could find a dancer to match his tall burley appearance. They simplified his dance role and fortunately he moved well. Notice Virginia Bosler gets key roles in all the girls dances. She has long brunette hair and a pouty mouth .

Magnificent

♥

Sublime

Rodgers and Hammerstein were incomparable when creating waltzes like this, and Jones is the mistress of all the musical scales and modes.

Palmer from All My Children!

Young 'Palmer Courtland' from "All My Children" ( Dream Curly)...

This dream sequence occurs after Laurey takes smelling salts she bought from a Middle Eastern itinerant traveler -- pretty hard hitting for 1955

@Marcel_Audubon

Жыл бұрын

it was 1955, not 1655, dearie

@evanhughes1510

8 ай бұрын

@@Marcel_Audubonthis musical is set in 1906

@Marcel_Audubon

8 ай бұрын

@@evanhughes1510 obviously, we're talking about the year the movie was introduced, not the fictional year within the movie

@cozname397

7 ай бұрын

It's got that 'opium tent' feel.

Virginia Bosle very beautiful .

Look at that fancy footwork by Rod Steiger! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Rod Steiger has an ugly magnetism in this, but... a number hard not to watch, a darker part of a sunny, sunny, musical. Gordon and Shirley and Charlotte were wonderful.

I don't think the Dream sequence could be improved on as far as Agnes de Mille's stunning, weirdly off-kilter choreography is concerned, the heightened use of colour and a setting that somehow combines to be claustrophobic yet threateningly open. That sounds soooo pretentious, but IS supposed to be a dream. What does give me a problem every time I watch it is that my enjoyment and appreciation are severely compromised because the film looks like standard ratio cropped for CinemaScope, cutting the dancers off from the knees down in closeups. I guess they must have had their reasons...

Ahhh, back when they made good movies

Mitchell is such a gorgeous guy. He did soaps later.

Brilliant dance sequence, the devil wants to recruit the bride.

You know what? There really *is* a bright golden haze on the meadow and it's in the early part of *this* scene. Just saying. 😉

What happened. Genuine gentleman????

Why do they have different actors for Curly and Laurie in this scene?

@johnmccarron7066

2 жыл бұрын

These were professional ballet dancers; the other actors wouldn't have been able to fully perform this scene. Plus, as an added bonus, it enhances the surrealism of the scene.

@user-il5oq5df6l

2 ай бұрын

​@@johnmccarron7066I think it was R&H's intention to have the roles of Laurey and Curly be temporarily taken over by dancers for this scene.

Dalí was so hip back then

9:49 - 10:49: Did the dancers make Laurey tired and did she fall asleep on that staircase far several seconds? If she did, I never knew you could sleep in a dream!

Laurey needs this dream ballet to get her to wake up and see sense. I always wondered why did she not already know *before* the dream. I suppose though subconsciously she *did* already know and that's how/why she was able to give herself that dream (fortunately for her so she didn't have to go through something equally awful in real life). Jud Fry is crazy and scary. 😨 Deep down, Laurey must've somehow already known that or sensed that. Otherwise she probably wouldn't have dreamed this. Her subconscious mind can tell her what her conscious mind can't.

@roninjoey

Жыл бұрын

She enjoys the courtship and she’s not ready to commit. Judd, being a lowly farmhand and someone looked down on by most of the community, is a safe option for Laurie because she believes she would never have to marry him. She underestimated him because she is kind to him, but he is more dangerous than she realizes.

Active in community theatre over 40 years. Done this show only twice ..chorus dancer.... Dream Ballet was always the directors nightmare. Terribly difficult .. very long...17 minutes I think... and you'd better have some damned good dancers

Would you happen to have the original opening credit sequence that was superimposed over Curly riding through the countryside? They did away with it in subsequent DVD releases. Thank you!

@KatrinaHaffner

6 жыл бұрын

I forget which-is-which, but they filmed it separately for Todd-AO and Cinemascope, and one of those versions has the footage of Curly while the other doesn't. Hope this helps if you haven't found it already. (I have a R&H Blu-Ray collection, and it came with both versions.)

@12classics39

Жыл бұрын

the Todd-AO version has the opening credits over a black screen and then fades into Curly on his horse. The CinemaScope version immediately opens with Curly on his horse and the opening credits are superimposed over the shots of him riding through the plains. So you’re looking for the CinemaScope version of the film. :)

5:16 Oppa Gangam Style.

The only party of movie I never liked, butit was beautifully done, not into dreams

who is the handsome male dancer in the beginning?

@emerybayblues

2 ай бұрын

James Mitchell, most known for playing Palmer Courtland on All My Children.

This song was way too short.

Lead female dancer? Bambi something?

@pamelastevenschuler9575

3 жыл бұрын

Bambi Lynn is a ballet dancer

The movie makers had to invent a way to get someone who knew how to dance to be in the dance scenes, which makes me wonder why they didn’t just teach Shirley Jones how to dance, herself! Maybe she had two left feet!

@user-il5oq5df6l

2 ай бұрын

In the subsequent Warner Brothers film version of THE MUSIC MAN, Shirley did learn to dance, and as far as I remember, she did a fine job.

This movie musical is not a family friendly one due to the gun violence, adult language and innuendo

This scene was not generally well received back in 1956 and although I enjoyed acting it out in a stage production in Australia , I really feel that on film , the scene could have finished at the point where Jud lifts her veil.The entire segment is something of a stretch.

@brbrknndy

Жыл бұрын

She was trying to decide who to choose. This dream brought what she already knew subconsciously to the surface of her mind to show what her life would be like with Judd.

This is what happened when you do drugs

Jud Fry was misunderstood. They really treated him badly. Curly ridiculed him unmercifully. Laurie lead him on as well. Should have been nicer to him and none of the conflict would have happened.

@mariekazyak5233

3 жыл бұрын

Jud had a dark past, if I remember correctly. He made advances on another girl and when she rejected them, he killed her and her whole family by setting fire to their house. I agree that Laurey shouldn't have used him like she did, but still Jud was a sinister character.

@alysiabernardo8900

3 жыл бұрын

@@mariekazyak5233 Interesting! Where did you hear that about Jud's past though??

@mariekazyak5233

3 жыл бұрын

@@alysiabernardo8900 I'm not sure if I'm remembering it correctly, as it's been a while since I saw the movie, but as I recall Jud mentions it while talking to Curly after the song "Poor Jud is Daid" under the guise of saying that he [Jud] had "heard" of a fellow who killed a family that way. Curly eventually figures out that Jud was talking about himself. Again, I could be wrong as it's been a while since I saw the movie.

@Suzanne4415

2 жыл бұрын

You can have empathy with people like that without blaming their victims when they do horrific things. (The stage play makes his character clearer than in the movie.)

So lovely! The stupid Disney and other commercials really STINK. AND RUIN THE MOOD.

Not to be rude..Jud is way sexier than Curley! LOL!

@persebra

3 жыл бұрын

the singer Curly or the dancer Curly? It makes a difference.

@tarp11z

3 жыл бұрын

Rod Steiger was a fantastic actor. Check out the 1965 version of Dr. Zhivago. His character owned the movie. And what a movie.

@Wolfmanluv

2 жыл бұрын

yeah he is so burly and muscular unlike Curly who was too skinny

By modern conventions, these staid Agnes de Mille ballets are so stagey; and they interrupt the flow of the narrative. And they only semi-work on film. So many mannered poses; less than ideal camera angles. And you just know the whole thing was shot on a soundstage. It just smacks of fakery and phoniness.

@Dr.Pepper001

6 жыл бұрын

Myles Garcia --- I agree. It's 15 minutes boredom to me. But, when I watch this movie on my DVD/TV, it allows me time to make more popcorn and get another Dr. Pepper.

@musicaltheatergeek79

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, in this bit Laurey is high on the opiate that the peddler sold her. It's supposed to be a dream sequence that turns into a nightmare.

@jeanettedemain8924

5 жыл бұрын

Wow, you have no understanding of dance at all.

@etcetera1995

4 жыл бұрын

Dude, it's a musical. It's going to be stylized when people literally burst into song and dance to express themselves.

@kellymcphaul2793

4 жыл бұрын

musicaltheatergeek79 Thank you! She’s tripping balls.