Not an Oscar nominee for this year, but it did win an Oscar for Best Original Song for "Secret Love".I was in kind of a funk yesterday and I didn't feel like doing anything. Nothing particularly bad happened, I just wasn't in a good mood. So I decided to pull out Calamity Jane, because you can't be angry while humming show tunes. It's a fact.
When his New York actress turns out to be a New York actor, Deadwood saloon operator Henry Miller (Paul Harvey) thinks he is sunk. But local rough rider and sharpshooter Calamity Jane (Doris Day) has a solution: she will ride to Chicago and get acclaimed actress Adelaid Adams (Gale Robbins) for the town. Unfortunately, Ms. Adams is leaving for a European tour and Calamity accidentally hires her maid, Katie Brown (Allyn McLerie), instead. Katie is soon found out to be a fraud but Calamity convinces the town to giver her a break and she soon becomes Deadwood's darling, catching the attention of famed gambler Wild Bill Hickock (Howard Keel) and cavalry officer Lt. Danny Gilmartin (Philip Carey). This latter swain proves a problem as Calamity is secretly in love with Danny, despite the fact that he's kind of a douche.
Doris Day was the probably the most wholesome person to have ever been on film, with the possible exception of Shirley Temple (RIP). This is one of my favorites of her films, even though it's not the most lavish. She's just so fresh-faced and hopeful that you can't watch her and be in a bad mood. Is it predictable and kind of corny? Sure, but for me, it's the right kind of predictable and corny.
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