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Calamity Jane is a "Wild West"-themed film musical released in 1953. It is loosely based on the life of Wild West heroine Calamity Jane and explores an alleged romance between Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in the American Old West. The film starred Doris Day as the title character and Howard Keel as Hickok. It was devised by Warner Brothers in response to the success of Annie Get Your Gun.
It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song ("Secret Love", Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster) and was also nominated for Scoring of a Musical Picture and Best Sound, Recording (William A. Mueller).
The songs and screenplay form the basis of a stage musical of the same name that has had a number of productions. The film was also adapted for television in 1963, with Carol Burnett in the title role.
Calamity Jane (Doris Day) rides into Deadwood, South Dakota on the stagecoach. The local saloon bar, the Golden Garter, sends for beautiful women to appear on the stage and entertain the residents of a town with few females. Unfortunately, the men are anything but pleased when the latest "woman" turns out to be a man named Francis Fryer (Dick Wesson), who does a stage act in drag (reluctantly) and goes under the name Frances Fryer. The saloon owner was misled by the girlish-sounding name when reading an advertisement in the newspaper. The men begin to storm out. Calamity, thinking quick in all the panic, vows to get them the one woman they are all drooling over: singer Adelaid Adams (Gale Robbins), who is in Chicago. The Golden Garter receives a letter from Adams that she wouldn't be seen dead in that town but Calamity is still determined to bring her. Wild Bill Hickok (Howard Keel) laughs at the idea and tells Calamity that the night Adams steps on the stage, he will come to the opening dressed as a Sioux squaw lugging a papoose.
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Deadwood, Dakota Territory, is largely the abode of men, where Indian scout Calamity Jane is as hard-riding, boastful, and handy with a gun as any; quite an overpowering personality. But the army lieutenant she favors doesn't really appreciate her finer qualities. One of Jane's boasts brings her to Chicago to recruit an actress for the Golden Garter stage. Arrived, the lady in question appears (at first) to be a more feminine rival for the favors of Jane's male friends...including her friendly enemy Wild Bill Hickock.
Keywords: anger, applause, axe, ball, bar, bartender, bow-and-arrow, bride, buggy, cabin
Calamity Jane: Make mine sarsparilly!
[the singer is a man in drag]::Wild Bill Hickok: She ain't very good lookin'::Calamity Jane: That ain't all she ain't.
Calamity Jane: This town ain't big enough! Not for me and that frilled-up, flirtin', man-rustlin' petticoat, it ain't!
Calamity Jane: Look at these! Silk, pure silk! I'll bet her mother spun 'em!
Calamity Jane: [singing] At last my heart's an open door / And my secret love's no secret any more.
Calamity Jane: That's better. Next time I tell a story, keep your hands in your *pockets* you toothless old buffalo!
Calamity Jane: Excitement? Why, I got more arrows in the back of that coach than a porcupine has got stickers!
Henry Miller: [looks inside stage coach] Is there a woman in here?::[Indians are looking at and touching Frances clothes and bag inside the stage coach]::Francis Fryer: No sir. Just Indians.
[Bill is dressed as an Indian woman with a baby]::Calamity Jane: Gosh almighty, it's Bill Hickok!::[proceeds to laugh along with everyone else]::Wild Bill Hickok: [hands baby over] Here take him.::[stands up]::Wild Bill Hickok: The next man that laughs is gonna get his head ventilated.::[silence and Bill sits down. Calamity laughs again after a few moments]
Calamity Jane: [singing] Hi Joe / say where'd you get them fancy clothes? / I know / off some fella's laundry line. / Hi Bow / aren't you the prairie rose / Smell like a watermelon vine.
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Plot: Wild Bill Hickok, famed lawman and gunman of the Old West, is haunted by his past and his reputation. He is loved by, but cannot love, Calamity Jane. Dogging his trail is young Jack McCall, who blames Bill for abandoning the boy's mother and destroying her life. McCall has sworn to kill Bill, and Bill's ghosts, his failing eyesight, and his fondness for opium may make McCall's task easier.
Keywords: 1860s, 1870s, ambush, bar-fight, based-on-book, based-on-novel, based-on-play, based-on-true-story, beating, black-&-white-to-colorActors: Ralph Winter (producer), David Kirschner (producer), Kathy Najimy (actress), Garry Marshall (actor), Bette Midler (actress), Mick Garris (producer), Penny Marshall (actress), Doug Jones (actor), Sarah Jessica Parker (actress), Norbert Weisser (actor), Kathleen Freeman (actress), Thora Birch (actress), Jason Marsden (actor), Mick Garris (writer), Mick Garris (writer),
Plot: 300 years have passed since the Sanderson sisters were executed for practicing dark witchcraft. Returning to life thanks to a combination of a spell spoken before their demise and the accidental actions of Max, the new-kid-in-town, the sisters have but one night to secure their continuing existence...
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Plot: The best job on this film is the one performed by director/writer/producer Ande Lamb when he persuaded somebody at Columbia to put their logo on this indie production that looks a little like what PRC might have made on a bad day, and once past the first five-billed players it is a game of "who dat?" This one finds Calamity Jane learning that her ownership of the "Prairie Queen" saloon, bequeathed to her by the late unseen Frank Mullen, is going to be disputed by Frank's niece, Cecelia Mullen and her lawyer, Gordon Hastings, brought to town by her rival saloon owner Matt Baker. Calamity and her aide, Colorado Charley try to run Gordon out of town but this fails, and he and the niece are soon on Calamity's side against Baker.
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Plot: With the end of the North American Civil War, the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means of making money selling the weapons to the North American Indians, using the front man John Lattimer to sell the rifles to the Cheyenne. While traveling in a stagecoach with Calamity Jane and William "Buffalo Bill" Cody and his young wife Louisa Cody that want to settle down in Hays City managing a hotel, Wild Bill Hickok finds the guide Breezy wounded by arrows and telling that the Indians are attacking a fort using repeating rifles. Hickok meets Gen. George A. Custer that assigns Buffalo Bill to guide a troop with ammunition to help the fort. Meanwhile the Cheyenne kidnap Calamity Jane, forcing Hickok to expose himself to rescue her.
Keywords: ambush, american-civil-war, american-indian, army, assassination, bar-shootout, barber-shop, battle-of-little-big-horn, bison, black-hills