Sunday, November 2, 2008

#73. Calamity Jane (1953)


Director: David Butler
Screenplay: James O'Hanlon
Cast: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Phillp Carey, Dick Wesson, Paul Harvey, Chubby Johnson, Gale Robbins

Quote: "I got a strange feelin' somebody's bein' hustled."

Filled with song and dance and the lovely Doris Day, the film is about title character, Calamity Jane (Doris Day), a tomboy-ish, happy-go-lucky cowgirl who can out shoot any man and any "injun" in the West! Off course, except the infamous Bill Hickok (Howard Keel), who happens to be her love-hate best friend. She's always had her eye on Lt. Danny Gilmartin (Philip Carey), but when she brings a beautiful, suave new singer from Chicago, Katie Brown (Allyn Ann McLerie), all eyes are to her and Calamity it ignored. Could Calamity finally change her ways and become a beautiful woman of the West and will she actually tell her "secret love" her true feelings for him?

OSCAR winner for Best Original Song ("Secret Love")

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