Stars: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick Wesson, Paul Harvey, Chubby Johnson, Gale Robbins

Director: David Butler

Summary: A musical extravaganza about the legendary sharp-shooter. Includes the Oscar-winning song 'Secret Love', plus 'A Woman's Touch', 'The Deadwood Stage', 'Just Blew In From The Windy City' and more. Music and lyrics by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster.

Doris Day is great as the famous cowgirl in this musical extravaganza about the legendary female sharpshooter and her up-and-down romance with Wild Bill Hickok. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Sound Recording. Academy Awards: Best Song ("Secret Love").

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This 1953 musical is very much a vehicle for Doris Day, in the title role, as a wild cowgal who can out-shoot and out-sing 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 honour, 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. Calamity Jane won an Oscar for Best Song--"Secret Love", by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster. --Rochelle O'Gorman

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Bonus Footage - 1. Newsreels: Western Style & Photo Play, Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer, Interactive Menus, Scene Access
Year:	1953
Release Date:	May 26, 2003
Runtime:	97 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D 022292
Keywords:	Music, Films, Jane, Calamity, Shows, Performing, Musicals, Arts
Genre:	Music/Performing Arts