Rodgers and Hammerstein, along with creating nine Broadway musicals, wrote two movies together, State Fair and Cinderella.
“They defined the Broadway Musical at mid-century.” —Caroline Kennedy
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“For Rodgers, riding high on the wave of success ... to reach out to Oscar Hammerstein, whose output in the 1930s was inconsistent, looks more risky than it must have seemed after Oklahoma! opened.... Luckily, in each other they found creative soulmates, collaborators who believed in the same theater, and understood how together they could take it where it needed to go. In fact, during their 16 years together they created five of the acknowledged classics of the American musical repertoire--Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music—is pretty astonishing.” —Ted Chapin
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