Calamity Jane (film)
Calamity Jane is a Wild Westthemed film musical released in 1953. It is loosely based on the life of Wild West heroine Calamity Jane and explores an alleged romance between Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in the American Old West. The film starred Doris Day as the title character and Howard Keel as Hickok. It was devised by Warner Brothers in response to the success of Annie Get Your Gun.
Calamity Jane Doris Day rides into Deadwood, South Dakota as shotgun messenger on the stagecoach. The local saloon bar, the Golden Garter, sends for beautiful women to appear on the stage and entertain the residents of a town with few females. Unfortunately, the men are anything but pleased when the latest woman turns out to be a man named Francis Fryer Dick Wesson, who does a stage act in drag reluctantly and goes under the name Frances Fryer. The saloon owner was misled by the girlishsounding name when reading an advertisement in the newspaper. The men begin to storm out. Calamity, thinking quick in all the panic, vows to get them the one woman they are all drooling over singer Adelaid Adams Gale Robbins, who is in Chicago. Francis Fryer points out that Adams wouldnt be seen dead in that town but Calamity is still determined to bring her. Wild Bill Hickok Howard Keel laughs at the idea and tells Calamity that the night Adams steps on the stage, he will come to the opening dressed as a Sioux squaw lugging a papoose.Calamity travels to Chicago, where Adams is giving a farewell performance she was on her way to Europe directly after the performance Adelaid, sick of the primitive Chicago, gives her costumes to her maid, Katie Brown Allyn McLerie, who dreams of becoming a stage singer. She tries on one of the dresses and starts to sing. When Calamity walks in, she mistakes Katie for Adelaid. Katie takes advantage of the error and poses as Adelaid Adams to make her dream come true. ........
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