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24 December 1948 (USA)
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She can shoot a gun almost as fast as BOB can run ! more
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Calamity Jane is despatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence school dentist as part of her cover. full summary | add synopsis
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Won Oscar.
Another 2 nominations
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Legendary Entertainer Bob Hope Dies at 100
(From IMDb News. 28 July 2003)
Legendary Entertainer Bob Hope Dies at 100
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(From IMDb News. 28 July 2003)
Legendary Entertainer Bob Hope Dies at 100
(From WENN. 28 July 2003)
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Painless Peter Potter.
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Bob Hope | ... | 'Painless' Peter Potter | |
| Jane Russell | ... | Calamity Jane | |
| Robert Armstrong | ... | Terris | |
| Iris Adrian | ... | Pepper | |
| Bobby Watson | ... | Toby Preston (as Robert Watson) | |
| Jackie Searl | ... | Jasper Martin (as Jack Searl) | |
| Joseph Vitale | ... | Indian Scout | |
| Charles Trowbridge | ... | Gov. Johnson | |
| Clem Bevans | ... | Hank Billings | |
| Jeff York | ... | Big Joe | |
| Stanley Andrews | ... | Commissioner Emerson | |
| Wade Crosby | ... | Jeb | |
| Chief Yowlachie | ... | Chief Yellow Feather | |
| Iron Eyes Cody | ... | Chief Iron Eyes | |
| John Maxwell | ... | Village gossip |
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91 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
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Referenced in Sunset Blvd. (1950)
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Buttons and Bows
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Bob Hope is in his element in this type of role, here he plays a dopey dentist named Painless Peter Potter, he is the kind of dentist that pulls the wrong teeth and gets high on his own laughing gas. Here he manages to get involved with Calamity Jane {a positively smouldering Jane Russell} and a caper set around rouge Cowboys selling guns and dynamite to the Indians. After mistakenly being taken for a hero after repelling an Indian attack and killing a number of them during said attack, we are taken on this delightful journey as Potter the coward transforms himself into a bravado gun slinger whilst not realising it's actually Calamity pulling his strings and shooting the pistols. It's a smashing comedy that perfectly showcases Hope's immeasurable talent for delivering one liners, in fact few comedians in history can deliver a quip better than Hope could. The chemistry between Russell and Hope is as sharp as the writing, and to cap it all off we get the delightful song Buttons & Bows to hum along to, smashing uplifting comedy, 8/10.