Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

George Sidney

Writers:

Dorothy Fields (libretto "Annie Get Your Gun") and
Herbert Fields (libretto "Annie Get Your Gun") ...

Release Date:

17 May 1950 (USA)

Genre:

Biography | Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance | Western

Tagline:

"Annie Get Your Gun" is even greater as an M-G-M musical!

Plot:

The story of the great sharpshooter, Annie Oakley, who rises to fame while dealing with her love/professional rival, Frank Butler.

Plot Keywords:

Annie Oakley | Sharpshooter | Show Business | Sitting Bull | England

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations

Cast

Betty Hutton	...	Annie Oakley
Howard Keel	...	Frank Butler
Louis Calhern	...	Col. Buffalo Bill Cody
J. Carrol Naish	...	Chief Sitting Bull
Edward Arnold	...	Pawnee Bill
Keenan Wynn	...	Charlie Davenport
Benay Venuta	...	Dolly Tate
Clinton Sundberg	...	Foster Wilson

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | UK:U | France:U | Australia:G | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivia:

Irving Berlin's "You Can't Get A Man With a Gun" is strikingly similar to "I'm True To The Navy Now" written by Elsie Janis and Jack King and performed by Clara Bow in Paramount on Parade (1930). That earlier song was later performed by Carmen Miranda in the Fox film Doll Face (1946) but was cut from that film as Paramount would not give permission for its use.

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Annie sees the Statue of Liberty as she returns to America to win Frank Butler's heart. The statue wasn't shipped from Paris until 1885, and wasn't completed in New York harbor until 1886, four years after Frank and Annie married.

Quotes:

Chief Sitting Bull: Sitting Bull live by three words: Keep bow tight, Keep arrow sharp,
[and with finality]
Chief Sitting Bull: No put money into shoe budiness.
Charlie Davenport: [rhetorically] How'd we ever get this country away from them?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Petticoat Junction: There's No Business with Show Business (#2.36)" (1965)

Soundtrack:

I'M AN INDIAN TOO

A Classic Musical Gets the MGM Treatment

1950's ANNIE GET YOUR GUN was originally planned to star Judy Garland in the title role; however Garland had just finished a stint in rehab and doctors recommended a year off. Instead she was given two weeks off and was assigned to report to wardrobe tests for the film. She even filmed a few scenes and a couple of musical numbers (which are included on the DVD), but Garland looks worn and haggard and she clearly was in no shape, physically or emotionally to work, so she was replaced by that bundle of bombastic( an adjective which I think the actress has the patent on)energy, Betty Hutton, who makes the most of this role and the classic Irving Berlin score (not Rodgers and Hammerstein as a previous poster stated). I have to admit I wouldn't have minded hearing Garland's interpretation of "I've Got the Sun in the Morning" or "They Say that Falling in Love" (Hutton's weakest moment) but for the most part Hutton shines as Annie and gets solid support from handsome Howard Keel as Frank Butler. Their duet "Anything you can do" is another highlight. A first rate stage musical gets first rate screen treatment from the MGM dream factory.