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Actors: Doris Day, Howard Keel
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Calamity Jane |
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Calamity Jane (Doris Day) is a tomboy-ish sharp-shooting Wild West heroine from the small town of Deadwood. There are very few women in this town, and so Calam offers to bring the famous actress Adelaid Adams to the town to entertain them. She heads to Chicago to get her, but gets fooled by Adelaid Adam's maid, Katy Brown, into thinking she is Adelaid Adams.
Back in Deadwood, Calamity is made a fool of when the fraud is discovered. However Katy is accepted by the men, moves in with Calamity, and tries to make her more womanly.
But problems arise because Calamity is in love with her friend Danny, who is in love with Katy. Calam's friend, Wild Bill Hickok (Howard Keel) is in love with Katy too, and this leads to a few unpleasant incidents as spoilt short-tempered Calam has to figure out that she can't tell anyone who to love, and at the same time discovers her own true love.
--Susanna de Almeida, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Calamity Jane |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 19th century
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- love triangle/polygon
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Body type
- (man) muscular
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an entire race
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- American Indian
Setting
Small town?
Yes
Misc setting
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
Any profanity?
- None
If lots of song/dance...
- lot of singing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Broadway musical
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