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The Deadwood Stage is comin' to town, bringing Doris Day and Howard Keel to fuss, feud and fall in love as Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickock in this mother lode of entertainment form the golden age of movie musicals. At first, curvaceous Calamity is too dunned busy fightin' Indians and cracking a bullwhip to pay much mind to such girlie what-alls as dresses and perfume. And Wild Bill is too danged busy wooing a dainty chanteuse (Allyn McLerie) to give a hoot about a hit-headed tomboy. But things change in a rootin', tootin' big way when each becomes the other's love target. There are wide-open Technicolor Western spaces, lots of high-stepping terpsichory and a hummable humdinger of a score by Academy Award-winning songwriters Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, who came up with their first Oscar for the classic ballad (and '50s megahit) Secret Love.
"...an excellent score." Halliwell's Film Guide
"Day at her...most likable. The score is just fine." Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights At The Movies
"One of (Day's) best Warner musicals..." VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever
Editor's Note
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").
Plot Summary
Energetic musical about the unlikely romance of famed Western tomboy Calamity Jane and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok. In an attempt to lure a handsome Army lieutenant away from another woman, Jane trades in her gunslinging and uniforms for housekeeping and dresses, and wins the affections of Wild Bill instead.
| Features | All-New Digital Transfer | | Audio: English, French Mono | | Cast Film Highlights | | Interactive Menus | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Production Notes | | Scene Access | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 4/26/2005 |
| Original Release Date: 1953 | | Catalog ID: 70598 | | UPC: 00012569705982 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1954) |  | Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster, Winner, Best Music, Song ("Secret Love") | | | William A. Mueller, Nominee, Best Sound Recording | | | Ray Heindorf, Nominee, Best Musical Score |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"[Doris Day is] dizzyingly kinetic..." 04/29/2005 p.135 |
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