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Calamity Jane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western musical film starring Doris Day and Howard Keel, and directed by David Butler. The musical numbers were staged and directed by Jack Donohue, who a year later would direct the Day musical Lucky Me (1954). The film is loosely based on the life of Wild West heroine Calamity Jane (Doris Day) and ...
Jan 29, 2020 · Uncovering the Real Story of Calamity Jane. An interview with Jane biographer James D. McLaird. by Sierra Adare 1/29/2020. Calamity was a crowd-pleaser at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y., but she soon grew restless for the wide-open West. ( (William B. Secrest Collection))
Jan 12, 2022 · Better known by her nickname ‘Calamity Jane’, the legendary Martha Jane Canary was famed as a sharp-shooting, tobacco-spitting, whisky-guzzling and foul-mouthed reprobate who regularly wore men’s clothes and engaged in fearsome gunfights in mid-19th century America’s Wild West. As ever, the truth is more nuanced.
Mar 12, 2024 · By Heather Mundt. March 12, 2024. You would be forgiven in describing Calamity Jane as an iconoclast whose flouting of 19th-century female mores launched her into exceptional fame and fortune...
Dec 3, 2010 · “She’s me, Short Pants—Martha Canary—Martha Burke, better known as ‘Calamity Jane.’” Calamity, arguably the most famous female character of the Wild West, had arrived from Cody, Wyo., that afternoon, rented a room over a saloon, gone out on the town and then promptly forgotten where she was staying.
Jun 13, 2019 · By. Jone Johnson Lewis. Updated on June 13, 2019. Calamity Jane (born Martha Jane Cannary; 1852–August 1, 1903) was a controversial figure in the Wild West whose adventures and exploits are shrouded in mystery, legend, and self-promotion.
Jun 11, 2018 · Martha Jane Cannary, known as Calamity Jane (1852-1903), was a notorious American frontier woman in the days of the Wild West. As unconventional and wild as the territory she roamed, she has become a legend. The most likely date of Jane Cannary's birth is May 1, 1852, probably at Princeton, Mo.
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