Calamity Jane (BD)

Calamity Jane (BD)Doris Day and Howard Keel fuss, feud and fall in love as Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in this entertainment mother lode. There are wide open Technicolor Western spaces, lots of high stepping dances and a hummable humdinger of a score by Academy Award winning* songwriters Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, who took their fi rst Oscar+ for the classic ballad (and '50s megahit) "Secret Love."

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" Myrna Loy noted about the string of exotic mantraps she portrayed before The Thin Man made her film's savviest

And Arliss was delighted to see Davis succeed

just after the Civil War

It's an adventure that's stylin' from the start

or so he thinks

directed and co-written by Irwin Allen (The Poseidon Adventure)

he relies on the snooty society dame (Constance Bennett) he once fired from the paper to give him entree into the haut monde

antelopes and ostriches stampede down the highway

whose work behind enemy lines grows more precarious when she violates the first rule of espionage: never fall in love with the enemy

The 24-karat Golden Age singing team of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy headlines a lavish

Increasingly charmed by Bill's heartfelt devotion and hoping to give him something to look forward to while he's risking death over there