Calamity Jane

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Doris Day as Calamity Jane in the 1953 film, wearing a fringed western outfit and wide-brimmed hat, smiling broadly while holding a rifle outdoors.

Calamity Jane

film by Butler [1953]

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David Butler
… (1953), with Gordon MacRae; and Calamity Jane (1953), with Howard Keel. Inexplicably, Butler subsequently made several action films, including the feeble King Richard and the Crusaders (1954) and the war drama Jump into Hell (1955). In 1956 he returned to more familiar fare with the comedy The Girl He Left…
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… (1953), with Gordon MacRae; and Calamity Jane (1953), with Howard Keel. Inexplicably, Butler subsequently made several action films, including the feeble King Richard and the Crusaders (1954) and the war drama Jump into Hell (1955). In 1956 he returned to more familiar fare with the comedy The Girl He Left…
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Doris Day
…long series of musicals, including Calamity Jane (1953), Young at Heart (1954), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), and The Pajama Game (1957). Her screen persona, that of an intelligent, wholesome woman of unfailing optimism and understated strength of character, came to epitomize the ideal American woman of the 1950s.…
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…long series of musicals, including Calamity Jane (1953), Young at Heart (1954), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), and The Pajama Game (1957). Her screen persona, that of an intelligent, wholesome woman of unfailing optimism and understated strength of character, came to epitomize the ideal American woman of the 1950s.…
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