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Calamity Jane (Original title)
Date: 1953 (Copyright)

Country: USA

Directed by: David Butler

Production company billing: ©1953 Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc Warner Bros Pictures presents a Warner Bros.-First National picture
Synopsis: Calamity Jane rides shotgun on a stagecoach and dresses like a man. She finds the Deadwood saloon has accidentally booked a male impersonator instead of a female one, and goes to Chicago to rectify the matter. She confuses the female entertainer's maid for the star herself, and the maid has to perform. Both Jane and the maid, Katy, have eyes for a young lieutenant, but trouble is avoided when Wild Bill Hickok persuades Jane that he loves her.

Genres:
Musical, Western

Subject:
Cross-dressers
Releases
Date: 1953not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 100 mins Length: 9000 FeetLanguage: English
Date: March 2019Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 101 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (21)
©/Presented by: Warner Bros., Produced by: William Jacobs, Assistant Director: Phil Quinn, Dialogue Director: Emory Hoerger, Written by: James O'Hanlon, Director of Photography: Wilfrid M. Cline, Technicolor Colour Consultant: Mitchell G. Kovaleski, Film Editor: Irene Morra, Art Director: John Beckman, Set Decorator: G.W. Berntsen, Wardrobe by: Howard Shoup, Make-up Artist: Gordon Bau, Original Songs Music by: Sammy Fain, Original Songs Lyrics by: Paul Francis Webster, Musical Direction by: Ray Heindorf, Orchestrations: Frank Comstock, Vocal Arrangements: Norman Luboff, Musical Numbers Staged and Directed by: Jack Donohue, Sound by: Stanley Jones, David Forrest
Cast (10)
Doris Day (Calamity Jane), Howard Keel (Wild Bill Hickok), Allyn Mclerie (Katy Brown), Philip Carey (Lt Gilmartin), Dick Wesson (Francis Fryer), Paul Harvey (Henry Miller), Chubby Johnson (Rattlesnake), Gale Robbins (Adelaide Adams), Harry Wilson ([townsperson]), Lee Shumway ([bartender])