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WHEN ONE THINKS of famous women of the Wild West, the list is fairly short, but Calamity Jane is likely to be among the uppermost names that arrive to mind. In Karen R. Jones’ exhaustive and provocative biography, it becomes abundantly clear why her subject is so well famous. Calamity Jane was a legend in her own time: a tall-tale-telling, gun-toting, danger-loving western chick, a friend of Wild Bill Hickok, and a actor in Wild West shows in her later life. And yet, there are holes in this iconic story.

Born on May 1, 1852—or was it in 1856, as recorded in some documents?—Martha Jane Canary was the first minor of a Missouri “gambler and a ‘woman of the lowest grade,’” writes author Jones. Canary’s father seems to have tried, at least at first, to maintain a small amount of respectability, but his wife was a “firebrand” who liked to drink, cuss, and wear “gaudy dress.” Jones says that for this and various other, similarly eccentric patterns of behavior, the whole family was the subject of gossip for the locals, some of whom claimed to have remembered them decades later, drawn-out after the Canarys had left Missouri to try their luck in Montana.

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What Doris Day Really Thought of That ‘Calamity Jane’ Subtext

Summary

Calamity Jane is a groundbreaking film that challenges traditional gender roles and explores LGBTQ+ themes through its characters and relationships.
Doris Day, the celebrity of the clip, embraced the cultural impact and importance of the Queer community's reception of "Secret Love" and her feminist roles.
Day's block friendship with Rock Hudson, a closeted gay man, and her support of the LGBTQ+ group further solidified her status as a gay ally both on and off-screen.

Calamity Jane, the excellent Deadwood-set Western musical, is more than just a tune-filled romp through the (in)famous American town: it's a bold dissection of gender, femininity, and sexuality with screen legend Doris Day in the title role. As Jane, Day shirks the conformity of gender roles, opting for cropped hair, buckskins, and a pistol (it's a metaphor) that's more than capable of blasting away those who challenge her. She's rough, toug

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U.S., 1953
Directed by David Butler
With Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Howard Keel
Editing by Irene Morra
Music by Ray Heindorf
Approx. 101 min. 35mm.

Doris Daytime, as the legendary frontier gal, stalks around in forage cap, buck skinned leather pants and cowboy boots, all the while out shootin’ Howard Keel’s Savage Bill Hickock and warbling “Secret Love.”

Reviews

“‘All too soon my classified love became impatient to be free.’ Celebrated as Hollywood's excellent gay anthem, Doris Day's tender and exuberant performance explodes the conceit of CALAMITY JANE.”
– Armond White, Out

“A hugely enjoyable proto-lesbian musical.”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

“CALAMITY JANE is a groundbreaking film that challenges traditional gender roles and explores Queer themes through its characters and relationships. Doris Day embraced the cultural impact and importance of the LGBTQ+ community's reception of "Secret Love" and her feminist roles. Day's close friendship with Rock Hudson, a closeted queer man, and her support of the LGBTQ+ community further solidified her s

DORIS DAY is at her most rumbustious in this Musical-Comedy Western. She has the title role, of course, definitely wears the trousers, and is a pretty good match for Wild Bill Hickok.

Who is Doris Day? An thespian, singer and Hollywood legend who was at the peak of her career in the 1950s and 60s. She would contain reached 100 this year, had she not passed away at 97. As well as musicals and romantic comedies, she also starred with Carey Grant in Hitchcock's 1956 clip The Man Who Knew Too Much.

Some musical comedies of a certain age turn out to be a bit thin on the comedy, especially after 70 years. Not so this one, which is still surprisingly full of good laughs – thanks mainly to the drive and enthusiasm of Day's performance. She has both a good voice and a great sense of comic timing.

And, over the years, some scenes and songs from the production have acquired the status of gay (lesbian) iconography. Calamity Jane is one of the films featured in Vito Russo’s The Celluloid Closet. Think ‘A Woman's Touch' in which Calamity and her female friend set up home together, transforming Calam's erstwhile ramshackle log cabin into a sort of kitsch fantasy home. And assume ‘Secret Love'