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Betty Hutton as Annie Oakley stands center stage, smiling and holding a rifle, with Louis Calhern raising her arm in victory and Howard Keel to her left, in Annie Get Your Gun (1950). Annie Get Your Gun
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Betty Hutton as Annie Oakley stands center stage, smiling and holding a rifle, with Louis Calhern raising her arm in victory and Howard Keel to her left, in Annie Get Your Gun (1950).
Annie Get Your Gun Betty Hutton with Howard Keel (left) and Louis Calhern (second from right) in a scene from the film Annie Get Your Gun (1950).

Annie Get Your Gun

stage musical by Berlin, Fields, and Fields
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Annie Get Your Gun, award-winning musical with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and accompanying libretto by siblings Dorothy and Herbert Fields. The musical is a fictionalized version of sharpshooter Annie Oakley’s life and her romance with fellow marksman Frank E. Butler. It premiered at the Imperial Theatre in New York City on May 16, 1946, and soon became a popular and critical success, running for more than a thousand performances on Broadway. Annie Get...

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