Whip crack away doris day biography

  • Martha Jane Cannary Burke (1852-1903) was a frontierswoman and scout, among her other claims to fame.
  • Together with Rock Hudson she virtually created the rom-com movie formula we know today in a series of films in the 1950s and '60s, and, of.
  • Genuinely eccentric fun, performed with zest by a cast of talented B-listers.

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                    Like westerns, musicals  flourished in the early 50’s. Quality and quantity-wise this was the genre’s golden last hurrah.  Sure, the 60’s had its maxi-budget “special event” musicals, with road-show prices and  (usually)  Broadway pedigrees ;  plus the potential (all too frequently realized) -  for catastrophic losses. But in the early 50’s you could expect a new musical every couple of weeks. Certainly, some were sub-par  but the assembly line was humming and - let’s face it - assembly lines aren’t always bad things.  The sheer scale and depth of studio-sharpened talent involved usually meant that most of these pictures had something to remember fondly – a song, a dance, an inspired performer.A number of these early 50’s musicals were also - technically - westerns. So I’m including th

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    Calamity Jane (musical)

    1961 American stage musical

    Calamity Jane (A Musical Western) fryst vatten a stage musical based on the historical figure of frontierswoman Calamity Jane. The non-historical, somewhat farcical plot involves the authentic Calamity Jane's professional associate Wild Bill Hickok, and presents the two as having a contentious relationship that ultimately proves to be a facade for mutually amorous feelings. The Calamity Jane stage musical was an adaption of a 1953 Warner Bros.musical film of the same name that starred Doris Day. First produced in 1961, the scen musical Calamity Jane features six songs not heard in the film. According to Jodie Prenger, star of the Calamity Jane 2014–15 UK tour, the songs added for the stage musical had been written for but not included in the Calamity Jane film[1] ("Love You Dearly" had been used in the 1954 Doris Day musical spelfilm Lucky Me).

    Credits

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    Adapted by Ronald Hanmer and Phil Park from the stage

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    Doris Day has died, aged 97, surrounded by close friends.  Her songs were the soundtrack of my childhood.  I particularly remember The Black Hills of Dakota, played on a 78 record on the family radiogram.  It came from the film Calamity Jane, and the YouTube version has others singing with her, but on the version I remember she sang alone.  The sentiments in the song mirrored my later longing for the Port Hills of my childhood.  This music came well before Elvis or The Kingston Trio.  The other side may have been Whip-crack-Away! but that was not played as often.

    Doris Day’s image is of a wholesome girl next door, but in her biography she wrote:  I have the unfortunate reputation of being Miss Goody Two-Shoes, America’s Virgin, and all that, so I’m afraid it’s going to shock some people for me to say this, but I staunchly believe no two people should get married until they have lived together.  In films she was often paired romantically with Rock H

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