Revealing mistake: During "Many a New Day", when Laurie sings "many a red sun will set" and before they all hear the Cummings girl laugh outside, Laurie and two others are looking into a mirror. The actresses are actually looking into the camera through a mirror frame, to give the illusion that we are seeing their reflections. When the girl with the long black hair joins them, you see her run in from the side, then her "reflection" in the mirror. However, if it was a real mirror, you wouldn't see her run in from the side. (00:44:00)
Oklahoma (1955)
1 revealing mistake
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Gloria Grahame, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood
Continuity mistake: The scene where the people are going to Skidmore for the box social, Laurie greets several young ladies on the front porch, they hear Gertie laugh and you can see the same young ladies just getting out of wagons and surries.
Will Parker: I don't know what to make of you! You're too purty to be a skunk! Too thin to be a snake! To little to be a man, and too big to be a mouse! I reckon you're a rat.
Ali Hakim: That's logical.
Trivia: Although James Whitmore plays Gloria Grahame's father in the movie, he was only two years older than her.
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