Calamity Jane

Summary: Calamity Jane (Day) & best friend Wild Bill Hickock (Howard Keel) are always competing against each other for the towns best shot and biggest story teller. Both are in love with other interests who are in love. Nothing can change this and Jane's "Secret Love" (Oscar winning song - Day's biggest single hit selling over 1 million copies) is soon realized. The movie is filled with great music and a very predictable happy ending. A 1950's Hollywood stantard.

This OUTSTANDING DVD is presented in Full Standard Screen Format (before WideScreen) in beautiful Digitalized TECHNICOLOR & mono sound track. The Extra features include: Premiere & Awards Newsreels, Producion Notes & Theatrical Trailer.

Doris Day is delightful & very believable as Calamity Jane. This Warner Brothers Musical is a classic & a great family edition to the DVD library. You'll love the music too!! Enjoy.


Just Blew In From The Best DorisDayest Movie In The West   July 2, 2004
Chris (Leeds, Utah United States)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful

I watched this movie recently again and I love it so much. I love all doris day Movies and I own all 39/39 of her movies but I will have to say that this is my favorite out of all of her films. Doris Day was dynamite as Clamity Jane and Howard Keel was excelent as Wild Billy Hicock. This is a great movie it focuses around Calamitys lieing and 2-timing. And how even though she won't admit it the man she really loves is Wild Billy who has a crush on A Singing Sensation that Calam brings to town but at the end of the film Calam and Billy you guessed it they get themselves hitched. This movie also includes great songs from the old west like. Just Blew In From The Windy City. Secret Love. Black Hills. and a lot others. This movie is a movie you and your whole family will enjoy so buy or rent a copy tonight and share it with your whole family.


DVD has arrived...great picture and sound!   September 3, 2000
Peter Prainito (Lombard, IL USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful

Calamity Jane is in my top ten list of favorite musicals. Doris Day is fabulous in the title role along with Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok. Briefly, the plot involves Calamity going to Chicago in hopes of bringing an actress named Adelaide Adams to perform in Deadwood City South Dakota. Trouble is, Calamity mistakenly brings back Ms. Adams' maid Katie instead! After the fraud is revealed, which is hilarious, Calamity befriends Katie. All is peachy until their female hormones kick in. They seemingly fall for the same man which threatens their friendship.

Seems to me that after the huge success of MGM's 1950 musical "Annie Get Your Gun", Warner Brothers wanted to cash in on the musical craze (and the 1950's was an outstanding decade for musicals) with this 1953 classic. They even got Howard Keel, who was in Annie Get Your Gun! Warner Brothers knew what they were doing because "Calamity" turned out to be another huge hit.

The movie has it all; an enjoyable story, humor, glorious technicolor, and great music. This is the movie that introduced the beautiful song "Secret Love", which has become a Doris Day trademark tune. This is a musical that I never get tired of watching. Just bought the DVD and the picture and sound are great! However, there are no extras on the DVD. Highly recommended.


"CALAMITY JANE" Hits The Entertainment Bulls-Eye!   September 6, 2001
Sean Orlosky (Yorktown, IN United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

"Calamity Jane" is one of the best musicals I've ever seen. And I've seen a lot of them. It's not often that musicals combine perfectly the elements of wonderful songs, unforgettable characters, and unalloyed delight. "Calamity" hits it right on the bulls-eye. Based on the tales of the legendary wild woman of the west, the light-hearted musical is as fresh and fun today as it ever was.

Starring as the rough-housing, energetic "Calam", Doris Day is sensational and absolutely irresistible. She sings the rooftops off of saloons, she shoots beer bottles flying through the air, and she's a rootin-tootin' barrel of fun. Howard Keel costars as the suave and smart-aleck Wild Bill Hickock, Calam's old friend and sometime heel, who can match her shot for shot, insult for insult. A supporting cast including Allyn McLerie and Philip Carey, and Dick Wesson couldn't be better.

The bright and bouncy story is a alot of fun and makes for some irresistible scenes. When Calam makes a foolhardy promise to the hardy cowpokes of Deadwood to bring a famous actress, Adelaid Adams, to their town for their enjoyment, she saddles up for the town of "Chicah-gee". There she meets Adelaid's sweet and pretty maid, Katie (McLerie), who poses as Adelaid to try to become a star. Katie becomes a sensation in Deadwood, and she innocently steals the affections of Lieutenant Danny Gilmartin (Carey)... whom Calam just happens to have her eye on. That's when the fur really begins to fly and the town full of " yeller lily-livered buffaloes" will never be the same.

The rich Oscar-nominated score is one of the best I've ever heard for a musical, just as irresistible as anything the movie has to offer. Day's brilliant opening number, "Whip-Crack-Away" is a pure delight, and Day steals scene after scene belting numbers like "I Just Flew In From The Windy City" and "I Could Do Without You" with Keel in heady suit. McLerie's "Keep It Under Your Hat" performed in a skimpy dance hall outfit ("nothin' but underwear" sputters Calam) is perfectly fetching, and Keel's baritoned solo, "My Heart Is Higher Than A Hawk" is a marvelous, warm number. Day and McLerie's bouncy "A Woman's Touch" is a delightfully amusing and charming song. One of the score's most charming numbers is the beautiful "Black Hills of Dakota" sung to heartwarming perfection by Day, Keel, and company. And the treasure of the score is the Academy-Award winning "Secret Love", in which Calam tells the world that "now my heart's an open door, and my secret love's no secret anymore." It's a beautiful score, and Day is absolutely charming singing it.

A marvelous vehicle for Doris Day, and a marvelous musical, "Calamity Jane" is a rafter-raisin', heckuva darned good time. It's a timeless show, and your pleasure will never end while you watch it. It brings a smile to my face every time I watch it, and I hope it does to you, to.