Today’s movie is a musical
comedy-romance with scenes that happen on March 19. Watch this film tonight and
enjoy.
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
Buffalo Bill’s
Wild West Show arrives in Cincinnati, Ohio, led by its star, the egoistic
marksman, Frank Butler. Rustic Annie Oakley meets frank and falls instantly in
love with him, but is devastated when she realizes she’s not the type of girl
Frank likes. Everyone is shocked when Annie beats Frank in a shooting contest
and she is persuaded to join the Wild West Show. They continue on tour and
Annie tries to improve herself to become Frank’s ideal woman, as Frank begins
to fall for her. However, on March 19, 1884, at the behest of Buffalo Bill,
Annie performs a new shooting stunt that Frank thinks is designed to supplant
him as the star of the show and he joins Pawnee Bill’s show instead. That same
day Annie meets Chief Sitting Bull, who is so impressed with Annie that he
nicknames her “Little Sure Shot” and symbolically adopts her. [43:15 to
1:07:48] The show tours Europe, where Annie is awarded many jewel-laden medals
for her shooting prowess. The return to
the USA broke due to high expenses. Pawnee Bill is also broke and proposes the
shows merge, offering as the reason that Frank and Annie can get back together.
Upon discovering their mutual poverty Pawnee Bill and Buffalo Bill call off the
deal, but Annie offers to sell her jeweled medals to raise the necessary cash.
Frank and Annie seem to reconcile, until they fight about who is the better
shot. Annie challenges Frank to a shooting contest, with her jewels as the
prize. Annie loses, due to Sitting Bull tampering with her sights, so the
show’s merger will occur. However, Frank realizes he does love Annie so they
marry and merge the two shows with the couple as the star attraction.
Annie Oakley by Shirl Kaspor (University of Oklahoma
Press, Norman, OK, 1992) p. 26 gives the date Annie met Sitting Bull
Producers - Arthur Freed and Roger
Edens
Director - George Sidney
Screenplay - Sidney Sheldon
Awards – The film won the Best
Original Score Oscar. It was also nominated for the Best Art Direction, Best
Color Cinematography and Best Film Editing Oscars at the 23rd
Academy Awards.
Released – May 17, 1950
Runtime – 1 hour 47 minutes
Starring - Betty Hutton as Annie
Oakley, Howard Keel as Frank E. Butler, Benay Venuta as Dolly Tate, Louis
Calhern as Buffalo Bill, J. Carrol Naish as Chief Sitting Bull, Edward Arnold
as Pawnee Bill, Keenan Wynn as Charlie Davenport, Clinton Sundberg as Foster
Wilson
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015
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