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Calamity Jane

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Calamity Jane

Warner Bros.' sky highest, smile widest, wild and woolliest Western of 'em all!

7.0(195) 11/4/1953 1h 41m
ComedyMusicRomanceWestern

Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.

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Top Cast

Doris Day

Doris Day

Calamity Jane

Howard Keel

Howard Keel

Wild Bill Hickok

Allyn Ann McLerie

Allyn Ann McLerie

Katie Brown

Philip Carey

Philip Carey

Lieutenant Danny Gilmartin

Dick Wesson

Dick Wesson

Francis Fryer

Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey

Henry Miller

Chubby Johnson

Chubby Johnson

Rattlesnake

Gale Robbins

Gale Robbins

Adelaid Adams

Directed by

David Butler

Production

Reviews

John Chard

7/10

2/18/2017

As fizzy as a Sarsparilla. Calamity Jane is directed by David Butler and written by James O'Hanlon. It stars Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Phillip Carey & Dick Wesson. The score features music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. Out of Warner Brothers, the film is seen as a response to the success of MGM's production of Annie Get Your Gun in 1950, where Keel was also starring. Plot here is loosely based on the life of Wild West heroine Calamity Jane (Day) and explores the relationship between Wild Bill Hickok (Keel) and herself. I guess the first thing that should be said is that this is no biography of one Martha Jane Cannary Burke (AKA: Calamity Jane), in truth this is more a comedy musical romp built around that famous frontiers woman, so with it being

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