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Calamity Jane (1953)

Actors: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick Wesson
Directed By: David Butler
Studio: Warner Home Video
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Run Time: 101 minutes
Theatrical Release Date: November 04, 1953
DVD Release Date: April 26, 2005
Format: DVD
Genres: Westerns

The legendary sharpshooter mends her ways for the man she loves. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/26/2005 Starring: Doris Day Philip Carey Run time: 101 minutes Rating: Nr Director: David Butler

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Amazon.com Editorial Review:
This 1953 musical is very much a vehicle for Doris Day, in the title role, as a wild cowgal who can outshoot and outsing any boy on the range. When an actress arrives in Deadwood and uses her feminine charms on Jane's secret love, Wild Bill Hickock (Howard Keel), Jane tries to mend her tomboy ways. Not exactly up to the feminist code of honor, this is still energetic and Day is very perky. Of course, one could almost detect a homosexual undercurrent with the cross-dressing Jane, but this was Hollywood in the 1950s, so we best not. This won an Oscar for Best Song--"Secret Love," by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster. --Rochelle O'Gorman