In this essay, writer Michael Coveney discusses the elements of the stage production that are successfully captured in this film version.

Still "doin' fine" after 60 years, Rodgers & Hammerstein's landmark musical "Oklahoma!" is reborn in this film version of the award-winning production.

View the production credits for "The Great American Songbook."

In this interview, Mary Rodgers, daughter of Richard Rodgers, speaks about her father and his collaborations with Lorenz Hart.

"Porgy," the opera by Gershwin, nearly became "Porgy," the musical comedy by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II.

In 1938, TIME magazine wrote: "As Rodgers and Hart see it, what was killing music comedy was its sameness, its tameness, its eternal rhyming of June with moon."

The American movie musical transformed Hollywood into a Mecca for the biggest singing stars and leading songwriters of the '30s, '40s, and '50s.

View the production credits for "Kiss Me, Kate."

Learn more about the songs from "Kiss Me, Kate."

Cole Porter's 1948 score was his major effort at an "integrated" musical in the wake of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel."