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The team went on to create four more hits that are among the most popular of all musicals and were each made into successful films: Carousel ( 1945 ), South Pacific ( 1949, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama ), The King and I ( 1951 ), and The Sound of Music ( 1959 ).

Other shows include the minor hit, Flower Drum Song ( 1958 ), as well as relative failures Allegro ( 1947 ), Me and Juliet ( 1953 ) and Pipe Dream ( 1955 ).

They also wrote the score to the film State Fair ( 1945 ) ( which was remade in 1962 with Pat Boone ), and a special TV musical of Cinderella ( 1957 ).