CALAMITY JANE
What's It All About?
Set in a small male dominated town called Deadwood. The local saloon bar 'The Golden Garter' is the only place to provide entertainment, beautiful girls from other states are brought in to perform on the stage.
Calamity Jane rides in to town on the Deadwood Stage coach, but she's not your typical young lady, put it this way, when it comes to shooting there's not much competition apart from Wild Bill Hickok.
But all isn't what it seems when the latest beautiful girl 'Francis Fryer' comes to Deadwood. The town's men are disgusted when 'Francis' comes to the stage in drag! Calamity tries to save the day, or at least the saloon by vowing to bring Adelaide Adams from Chicago. The actress that all the men have been drooling after.
This is where Calamity's adventure starts on her new found mission, making new friends, enemies and somewhere a love story.
Background Of The Show.
Calamity Jane was born about 1852 in Missouri, as Martha Jane Cannary. She moved to Deadwood, Dakota, during the Gold Rush in the Black Hills. There, after the murder of Wild Bill Hickok in 1876, she claimed that he was the father of her child and that they had been married. Calamity Jane was noted for her habit of dressing in men's clothing and nursed victims of a smallpox epidemic in 1878, also dressed as a man. She was something of a local legend because the 'Sioux Indians' left her alone.
In her later years, Calamity Jane appeared in Wild West shows around the country. 'The Buffalo Bill Wild West Show' featured her riding and shooting skills, but her chronic drunkenness and fighting caused many problems. After being fired from a show in 1901, she retired to Deadwood, where she died from pneumonia. Calamity Jane was buried next to Wild Bill Hickok.
The movie was released in 1953 which was devised by Warner Brothers in response to the huge success of 'Annie Get Your Gun'. The film stars Doris Day as 'Calamity Jane' and Howard Keel as 'Wild Bill Hickok'.
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