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| ACTORS: | Doris Day, Howard Keel |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | David Butler |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 04 November, 1953 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Musical |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 085392229222 |
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Customer Reviews of Calamity Jane
Doris' Day of Magnificence! A film musical great for its time and a showcase for Doris Day's brilliance. Now, what this reviewer means by a movie for its time is that nowadays, modern critics and reviewers have sought out the gay undertones of CALAMITY JANE and the Oscar-Winning song "Secret Love" has been scrutinized as much as the Beatles' "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away". With that aside and if one watches the movie as audiences saw it in the innocent 50's, this is Doris Day's vehicle with a terrific performance. Day pulls off the rough, macho, gun touting, title role with ease,gusto and humor. The supporting cast of characters are equally impressive with Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickock. If any of the other support actors look familiar, they are, but you just don't know their names. Allyn Ann McLerie who is great as Katie Brown in the film has been a major support/guest character actor in many tv and film roles. She's most memorable as the wife of station manager, Mr Carlson (Gordon Jump) in the tv series "WKRP in Cincinnati". Also, Philip Carey as Lt. Danny GilMartin plays Asa Buchanan on the daytime soap "One Life to Live". Great songs, great characters, and great story makes this top notch entertainment from the movie musical hey day of the 50's to rival MGM's musicals (CALAMITY JANE was a Warner Bros. musical production)
DVD has arrived...great picture and sound!
Calamity Jane is in my top ten list of favorite musicals. Doris Day is fabulous in the title role along with Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok. Briefly, the plot involves Calamity going to Chicago in hopes of bringing an actress named Adelaide Adams to perform in Deadwood City South Dakota. Trouble is, Calamity mistakenly brings back Ms. Adams' maid Katie instead! After the fraud is revealed, which is hilarious, Calamity befriends Katie. All is peachy until their female hormones kick in. They seemingly fall for the same man which threatens their friendship.
Seems to me that after the huge success of MGM's 1950 musical "Annie Get Your Gun", Warner Brothers wanted to cash in on the musical craze (and the 1950's was an outstanding decade for musicals) with this 1953 classic. They even got Howard Keel, who was in Annie Get Your Gun! Warner Brothers knew what they were doing because "Calamity" turned out to be another huge hit.
The movie has it all; an enjoyable story, humor, glorious technicolor, and great music. This is the movie that introduced the beautiful song "Secret Love", which has become a Doris Day trademark tune. This is a musical that I never get tired of watching. Just bought the DVD and the picture and sound are great! However, there are no extras on the DVD. Highly recommended.
Fun western musical!
As tomboy Calamity Jane, Doris Day is entertaining and funny. In order to get noticed by leutenant GilMartin, Jane changes her deerskin leather for silk and high heels. Unfortunately for Jane, GilMartin has his eyes set on the newcomer actress Katie Brown. But all isn't lost for Jane because she manages to impress her handsome best pal Wild Bill Hickock (Howard Keel) with her new feminine look.
Fun musical numbers and great chemistry between Day and Keel.