The Deadwood Stage is comin’ to town, bringing Doris Day and Howard Keel to fuss, feud and fall in love as Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickock in this mother lode of entertainment form the golden age of movie musicals. At first, curvaceous Calamity is too dunned busy fightin’ Indians and cracking a bullwhip to pay much mind to such girlie what-alls as dresses and perfume. And Wild Bill is too danged busy wooing a dainty chanteuse (Allyn McLerie) to give a hoot about a hit-headed tomboy. But things change in a rootin’, tootin’ big way when each becomes the other’s love target. There are wide-open Technicolor Western spaces, lots of high-stepping terpsichory and a hummable humdinger of a score by Academy Award-winning songwriters Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, who came up with their first Oscar for the classic ballad (and ’50s megahit) Secret Love.
June 28, 2011
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