Doris Day

Howard Keel

Allyn Ann McLerie

Philip Carey

Dick Wesson

Paul Harvey

Chubby Johnson

Gale Robbins

Billy Bletcher

Bess Flowers

Colin Kenny

Frank McLure

Bert Stevens

Arthur Tovey

Chuck Roberson

Beulah Archuletta

Lane Chandler

Edmund Cobb

Sam Harris

Pierce Lyden

Lee Shumway

Charles Soldani

Glenn Strange

Harry Tenbrook

Norman Stevans

Suzanne Ridgway

Sailor Vincent

Artie Ortego

Buddy Roosevelt

Art Felix

George Sowards

Charles Morton

Carl Sklover

Frank Mills

Philo McCullough

Dave Kashner

Ethan Laidlaw

Al Hill

George Huggins

Franklyn Farnum

Clem Fuller

Herman Hack

Chet Brandenburg

Stanley Blystone

Roydon Clark

Ben Corbett

Ray Kellogg

I. Stanford Jolley

Michael Jeffers

Harold Goodwin

Fritz Ford

Fred Aldrich

Tom Ferrandini

Raoul Freeman

David Butler

G.W. Berntsen

Wilfrid M. Cline

David Buttolph

John Beckman

William Jacobs

Howard Jackson

Irene Morra

Stanley Jones

Gordon Bau

Philip Quinn

Ray Heindorf

Emory Hoerger

Sammy Fain

Norman Luboff

Paul Francis Webster

James O'Hanlon

Jack Donohue

Howard Shoup

Frank Comstock

Mitchell Kovaleski

Charles David Forrest

Comedy

Music

Romance

Western

Calamity Jane

Warner Bros. Pictures

United States of America

English

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 very basic on narrative and direction, this is predominantly appealing to the film fan with musical leanings. However, on that score the film is utterly delightful, such as it is fronted by the spirited lead performances from Day & Keel and a handful of truly great tunes headed by the Oscar winning "Secret Love" (Day luminous and vocally on peak form). 

Pic also earns some bonus points for giving Day the chance to play something other than the naive innocent girl next door type (it was a personal favourite role of hers). She gets to be spunky and brash without ever losing that adorable appeal that carried her throughout her career. The play on sexual stereotypes is rather humorous without being twee, something that you feel director Butler was under appreciated for, while Wilfred M. Cline's gorgeous colour photography enhances the playfulness of it all. 

Seen now as a feminist fantasy with a gay following thanks to "Secret Love", there's no denying the film is all very Hollywoodized - with characters so animated they could actually burst. But all told, if one is able to forgive and see past its tiny flaws then this is a film guaranteed to light up the darkest of wintry days. 7.5/10

Calamity Jane 1953 Trailer HD | Doris Day | Howard Keel

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