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Summary: Doris' Day of Magnificence!
Review: 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)
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Summary: How the Wild West was Sung!
Review: Doris Day is an absolutely fabulous Calamity Jane. I can't describe how wonderful this movie really is. I grew up watching Calamity spout insult after insult and enjoyed it, but now after many years I still love this movie. As an adult I can't help but fall completely into the love story and the beautiful songs but part of me still enjoys the fastest mouth in the west.
Day plays opposite Howard Keel, probably one of the handsomest cowboys ever the set foot in the Golden Garter Saloon. Calam describes Wild Bill Hickok (Keel) as a seven year itch, but admits that's its awful fun scratchin'. Together Calam and Bill help to keep a would be actress from Chicago from getting herself killed, keep Deadwood's saloon from closing, and realize that underneath they really love one another. The musical numbers are staged perfectly and Doris Day sings song after song without hesitation and does it while wearing a deer skin suit. Howard Keel's rendition of "My Heart id Higher than a Hawk" makes me go weak at the knees, and the characters will dance right into your heart. A can't miss for either Keel or Day fans.
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Summary: Doris Day is in the old west as "Calamity Jane".
Review: Doris Day's 15th film. Doris takes a departure from her usual role in films and plays the title role "Calamity Jane" in the old west. Still a comedy, still a few tunes, but no high-society fashioned evening gowns here. She's definatly a tough-cookie and has no time to be a lady. She's not into dresses and lady-like things. After all, she has her modesty. Wild Bill Hickok (Howard Keel) and Calamity Jane just don't see eye to eye. But secretly, Calamity does like Wild Bill, she just doesn't know how to be a lady. She has to go to Chicago to find a new showgirl for Deadwood City's Golden Garter saloon. Well, unfortunatly for Calamity, Wild Bill has an eye for the new girl, Katie (Allyn McLerie). While Calamity allows this girl to live with her, my oh my, what changes will occur for Calamity Jane? Does the Golden Garter saloon stage jog a memory? Well, it looks similar to the Golden Horseshoe saloon in Disneyland (Anaheim, California USA). This movie set was built first. Disneyland and the Golden Horseshoe Saloon opened two years later on July 17, 1955.
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Summary: Calamity Jane
Review: I've always loved Calamity Jane from the age of four! I remember dancing to the brill songs like 'I can do without you,' and 'the black hills' and 'a womans touch' and 'the windy city'. I think Doris Day is a superb actress and she can sing and act beautifullt to portray a very tomboyish Calamity Jane. She is in love with the lieutenant, but he has fallen in love with a woman called Katy who Calamity herself brought to dead wood and shared home with. After an embarrassing confrontation with Katy in the golden garter, Calamity falls for a life long friend - her secret love Bill hickock - who himself fancied Katy. It all ends happily with Katy marrying the lieutenent (I despise him!!!) and Bill marrying calamity. It's a wicked film and the songs are great! I love it and if you ever have a chance to watch it please do because it gets me hooked everytime even though I have probably watched it about 1000 times!
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Summary: The Doris Day Show.
Review: Very much the star of the show, Doris Day carries "Calamity Jane" with all the perkiness and spark one could possibly imagine. Jane is more manly than most of the men in the show, and although one could read a lesbian subtext into the film, that was most likely not the intention of the writers or the star. Still, this is a fun, albeit slightly cornball western musical, and one of Day's greatest film roles.
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Summary: Doris Day is in the old west as "Calamity Jane".
Review: Doris Day's 15th film. Doris takes a departure from her usual role in films and plays the title role "Calamity Jane" in the old west. Still a comedy, still a few tunes, but no high-society fashioned evening gowns here. She's definatly a tough-cookie and has no time to be a lady. She's not into dresses and lady-like things. After all, she has her modesty. Wild Bill Hickok (Howard Keel) and Calamity Jane just don't see eye to eye. But secretly, Calamity does like Wild Bill, she just doesn't know how to be a lady. She has to go to Chicago to find a new showgirl for Deadwood City's Golden Garter saloon. Well, unfortunatly for Calamity, Wild Bill has an eye for the new girl, Katie (Allyn McLerie). While Calamity allows this girl to live with her, my oh my, what changes will occur for Calamity Jane? Does the Golden Garter saloon stage jog a memory? Well, it looks similar to the Golden Horseshoe saloon in Disneyland (Anaheim, California USA). This movie set was built first. Disneyland and the Golden Horseshoe Saloon opened two years later on July 17, 1955.
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Summary: i always love this film!! its a musical; need i say more? =)
Review: Calamity Jane is one of my all-time favorite musicals. It's starring Doris Day who plays a tomboy with a crush on a civil war general...she is transformed into a bell by a starry-eyed maid from "Chicagey". i really dont feel like getting into the plot, but its a really great film, if u love musicals...and if u love old classics...hmm...even if u didnt, ud probably like this one...
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Summary: Calamity Jane will knock you off your chair.
Review: A fine feel-good rip-roaring musical that is too god to resist. Doris Day is perfect as Calamity Jane as she thinks that even a cowgirl can get her ways, too. Even though she tries, she can't get her "secret love" Bill Hickcock (Howard Keel) out of her mind. Rowdy, rambunctious, funny and full of wonderful musical and highly entertaining song and dance numbers, "Calamity Jane" is a winner! They sure don't make them like that anymore.
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Summary: Doris Day Classic on DVD - A Digital Delight!
Review: This pleasant, energetic musical was tailor made for the star, Doris Day. Playing the rough, rowdy frontier girl with spunk enough to make the entire Old West shake, the only "medicine" to tame "Calamity" Jane is a good old fashioned does of love. Enter Howard Keel, who co-stars as Wild Bill Hickock, and eventually all ends well.Along the line of "Annie Get Your Gun" this film includes the enchanting love theme "Secret Love", which won that year's Academy Award for Best Song. "Hollywood Candy" for any fan of the stars or the Western genre.*****
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Summary: A Rootin' Tootin' Musical
Review: This is Doris Day in one of her most enthusiastic performances (and her own personal favorite) as the tomboy-ish sharp shooter known as "Calamity Jane". Though the story is not to be taken as acurate historical fact, this film is strictly to entertain, which it does and then some! Day is simply superb, storming around the sets, shooting, singing and dancing. It's fun to watch Day trying to go from tomboy to sophisticated lady to win her man. Howard Keel, an always welcome addition to any film, especially with that voice of his, is a great match for Day as Wild Bill Hickock. They make a great team and it's a real shame they didn't make more films together. Great musical numbers and songs include "Whip Crack-Away", "A Woman's Touch", "The Black Hills of Dakota", "The Windy City", "I Can Do Without You" and the Oscar-winning "Secret Love". This film starts off with an energetic bounce and maintains that pace all the way through, with some great laughs. The cast is rounded out by Phillip Carey and Allyn McLerie (in the ingenue role of Katie Brown), who both provide fine support for the two leads.
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