Rodgers and Hammerstein Properties Today
Corporate components to many of the Rodgers and Hammerstein film adaptations are now owned by different companies. 20th Century Fox owns the film versions of Carousel, The King and I, The Sound of Music, and both versions of State Fair outright, while holding partial ancillary rights (including home video) to South Pacific and Oklahoma!. Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer (via their acquisition of the holdings of The Samuel Goldwyn Company) owns the theatrical and television rights to Oklahoma!, South Pacific, and Flower Drum Song. (Universal Pictures, the film's original distributor, owns only the video rights and the film's copyright), while owning full rights to the 1965 television version of Cinderella.
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