Doris Day and Howard Keel have a lot to answer for, namely, audiences’ continued love of Calamity Jane, now one of the great staples of amateur theatre companies everywhere.
Their performances in the 1953 film as the gender-defying frontierswoman (based on real life sharpshooter and storyteller Martha Jane Canary) and her “secret love”, Wild Bill Hickok, set the bar high for those who follow.
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