Calamity Jane

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Summary: Doris shines !
Review: With so many positive reviews, there is not much to add. For me, this is Doris Day's best film--period. She really sparkles as Jane, and Howard Keel is a perfect co-star. The movie is filled with great characters, and, of course, there is that wonderful music score.
The DVD is gorgeous--yes she really does tell the "golden" daffodil ! The sound is mono--hey it was made in 1953--but the movie is so much fun, that you don't really think about any shortcomings.
If younger people today want to know why Ms. Day was such a huge star, show them "Calamity Jane" !

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Summary: Calamity Jane
Review: This is a great movie. I love it. I have seen it several times on Television and thought very, very funny. Doris Day was great in this movie.

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Summary: Doris Day is Calamity Jane! Now on DVD in TECHNICOLOR!!!!
Review: Doris Day one of Hollywoods greatest talents now comes to the DVD TECHNICOLOR screen as Martha Jane Canary, better known as "Calamity Jane". Loosely based on the western heroine's life. Calamity served as an Indian Scout, mail carrier and later as a performer in a Wild West Show demonstrating her fancy shooting. This action packed, toe tapping, knee slapping musical launched Doris Day as a Hollywood Star!!! She is outstanding as this wild tomboyish gun toting character.

Summary: Calamity Jane (Day) & best friend Wild Bill Hickock (Howard Keel) are always competing against each other for the towns best shot and biggest story teller. Both are in love with other interests who are in love. Nothing can change this and Jane's "Secret Love" (Oscar winning song - Day's biggest single hit selling over 1 million copies) is soon realized. The movie is filled with great music and a very predictable happy ending. A 1950's Hollywood stantard.

This OUTSTANDING DVD is presented in Full Standard Screen Format (before WideScreen) in beautiful Digitalized TECHNICOLOR & mono sound track. The Extra features include: Premiere & Awards Newsreels, Producion Notes & Theatrical Trailer.

Doris Day is delightful & very believable as Calamity Jane. This Warner Brothers Musical is a classic & a great family edition to the DVD library. You'll love the music too!! Enjoy.

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Summary: The Most "Bang" For Your Buck!
Review: "Calamity Jane" is one of those rare movies that offers comedy, music and gunslingers and does all three marvelously, giving you a lot of bang for your buck. Every song on the score is catchy and singable, and the stars all play off each other beautifully (if one overlooks Lieutenant Dan's stale but mercifully small performance). Doris Day is perfectly cast as Martha "Calamity" Jane Canary, stomping and spitting and getting as close to cussing as you can get in a family movie. The film never drags, thanks to the witty repartee and great chemistry between Day and Keel, and to Day's blustery, bravado-filled performance as the fast-talking, fast-shooting Black Hills tomboy. I've loved this movie since the first time I watched it as a young girl, and for different reasons in different stages of my life. I'm rather conflicted over how I feel about the film, because it does send mixed feminist messages. On the one hand, it has Doris Day as the consummate tomboy, ridin', ropin', cussin' and fightin' and doing everything as well as or better than the famous gunslinging hotshot Bill Hickok. On the other hand, the latter half of the movie suggests several antifeminist ideas: that a woman's life without a man is incomplete; that you have to clean the house and wear a dress to get said man to notice you (apparently being able to shoot a glass out of someone's hand isn't attention-grabbing enough!); that deep down, women are jealous and petty creatures ... but it's not as though most modern romantic comedies that feature supposedly strong women don't have the same type of cop-out ending. It was a disappointment in this case mostly because this was "Calamity Jane," and Calam was clearly supposed to ride off into the sunset either alone or with Katie, as one assumes the real-life, not-so-sunny and -heterosexual Martha Jane Canary would have done.

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Summary: greatest musical western ever
Review: I BELIEVE THIS TO BE THE BEST WESTERN COMEDY MUSICAL EVER MADE BECAUSE DORIS DAY AND HOWARD KEAL GIVE IT THEIR ALL . WHO ELSE COULD PLAY CALIMITY WITH SUCH GUSTO AND VITALITY THAN DORIS DAY BEST SCENE FOR ME IS WHEN DORIS SINGS SECRET LOVE AND FOLLOW UP LATER WITH BLACK HILLS OF DAKOTA .
THE BEST DANCE ROUTINE MUST WHEN CALAMITY ARRIVES IN TOWN AFTER THE STAGE COACH IS ATTACKED BY INDIANS AND THE FOLLOWING SALOON ROUTINE IS BRILLIANT .
THE HOLE FILM IS EXCITING FROM START TO FINSH WITH A GREAT MUSICAL SCORE BACKED BY HOWARD KEAL IT TO BE A WINNER IF THERE HAD TO BE A MINUS I THINK WE COULD HAVE HAD BETTER CO-STARS BUT WHEN YOU GOT DORIS DAY AT HER BUBBLY BEST WHO CARES WITH BACKING FROM HOWARD KEAL WHO ALSO APPEARS IN MY SECOND GREATEST MUSICAL SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHES WHAT MORE CAN BE SAID-

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Summary: This is a very entertaining movie and just for fun.
Review: I like the stars in this movie and I enjoy the singing and the romantic story.
It is a lighthearted comedy and musical which I enjoy.

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Summary: Good Old Fashioned Fun
Review: If you're a fan of musicals, Doris Day, or westerns...this is the movie for you. Light-hearted fun, albeit not politically correct (but what was in the 50's??), this movie clips along without a dull moment in sight. Day sounds wonderful when singing and Howard Keel is always a delight.

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Summary: Doris at her most energetic
Review: While Love me or Leave Me and Pajama Game are my two top Doris Day performances, the one I love for sheer joy is Calamity Jane. It prompted my first fan letter to DD. We have remained friends to this day. This film is nothing but total fun and Doris singing Secret Love still stands out as a great today video contender for a great singer and the ultimate Movie Star turn in a movie. It's obvious to see that Doris loved the movie just as her many fans did.

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Summary: old-time fun
Review: This movie is a lot of fun - a great change of pace. It's happy and easy for kids to watch. Doris Day's "accent" gets a bit old by the end of the movie, however.

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Summary: Whip crack-away, whip crack-away, whip crack-away!
Review: This is more than just a camp musical. This is THE musical! Warner Brothers have out-M.G.M.d M.G.M., and Sammy Fain has bettered Rogers and Hammerstein. Doris Day has never shone brighter, and Howard Keel was never more charming than he is in this Technicolor masterpiece. Every song stands out, the performances are at once knowing and innocent, and the romantic story could melt all except the stoniest of hearts. My favourites are The Deadwood Stage and Secret Love, but I am sure you will have your own. This video deserves a place on the shelves of anyone who wants to represent the 1950s musical in his collection.