Calamity Jane

***Calamity Jane (1953)*** is a UK VHS release by Warner Home Video on 2nd October 1989, and then it got re-released by Warner Home Video on 10th October 1994, 22th September 1997 and 10th April 2000. It also got re-released on UK DVD by Warner Home Video on 26th May 2003, 9th October 2006, and 27th January 2020. It got released on Blu-Ray in High Definition on 3 March 2015. It also got -released on a 3 Musical DVD Collection by Warner Home Video on 17th October 2005, following by *Seven Brides for Seven Brothers* (1954) and *My Fair Lady* (1964).

The romantic musical comedy western stars Hollywood singer and actress Doris Day as the roughest, toughest gal in the town of Deadwood. With Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok and Allyn Ann McLerie as Katie Brown.

## Description

How the West Was Sung!

The Deadwood Stage is coming to town, bringing Doris Day and Howard Keel to fuss, feud and fall in love as Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in this mother lode of entertainment from the golden age of movie musicals. At first curvaceous Calamity is too durned busy fighting Indians and cracking a bullwhip to pay much mind to such girlie what-all as dresses and perfume. And Wild Bill is too danged busy wooing a dainty chanteuse Katie Brown (Allyn McLerie) to give a hoot about a hot-headed tomboy. But things change in a rooting, tooting, big way when each becomes love's 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 another Oscar for the classic ballad (and '50s megahit) *Secret Love*.

## Songs

* The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away!)
* A Hive Full of Honey
* I Can Do Without You
* It's Harry I'm Planning to Marry
* The Windy City
* Keep It Under Your Hat
* Higher Than a Hawk
* A Woman's Touch
* The Black Hills of Dakota
* Secret Love
* The Deadwood Stage (Reprise)

## Cast

* Doris Day as Calamity Jane
* Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok
* Allyn Ann McLerie as Katie Brown
* Paul Harvey as Henry Miller
* Dick Wesson as Francis Fryer
* Chubby Johnson as Rattlesnake
* Phillip Carey as Daniel Gilmartin
* Tom London as Prospector (uncredited)
* Gale Robbins as Adelaid Adams

## Song Quote

1. A touch of paint, a magic nail, can turn a kitchen chair into a Chippendale. Even make the lamp appear, like a crystal chandelier. #

## Letter Quote

"Dear Danny, Calamity loves you and you probably love her. I had no right to come between you. I love you both, and want you to be happy. Pretend it was Adelaid Adams who came to Deadwood. Katie Brown never existed. She doesn't know. Goodbye, Danny."

## Credits

* Directed by: David Butler
* Produced by: William Jacobs
* Written by: James O'Hanlon
* Art Director: John Beckman
* Sound by: Stanley Jones, David Forrest
* Film Editor: Irene Murra, A.C.E.
* Set Decorator: G.W. Berntsen
* Dialogue Director: Emory Hoerger
* Wardrobe by: Howard Shoup
* Assistant Director: Phil Quinn
* Make-up Artist: Gordon Bau
* Vocal Arrangements: Norman Luboff
* Orchestrations: Frank Comstock
* Director of Photography: Wilfrid M. Cline. A.S.C.
* Technicolor Colour Consultant: Mitchell G. Kovaleski
* Musical Numbers Staged and Directed by: Jack Donohue
* Original Songs: Music by: Sammy Fain
* Lyrics by: Paul Francis Webster
* Musical Direction by: Ray Heindorf
* Colour by: Technicolor
* A Warner Bros. First National Picture
* Sound by: RCA Sound System
* MPDDA/MPAA Number: 16445
* Copyright (c) MCMLIII by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. All rights reserved.

## Trailers and info

#### **Opening**

John Sachs voiceovers the Warner Bros Family Entertainment children's trailer from 1994 with clips of "The Secret Garden", "Curly Sue", "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", "The Never Ending Story", "Lois and Clark The New Adventures of Superman", "Rover Dangerfield", "Tiny Toons: Who I Spend My Vacation", "Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales", "Dennis", and the opening of Calamity Jane.

#### **Closing**

1. The End of Calamity Jane
2. Thumbelina
3. Willy 2: The Adventure Home
4. Black Beauty