...the start. For me therefore Annie Get Your Gun is the perfect musical as it certainly ticks all of these boxes as well as many, many more.
Annie get your gun was released in 1950 and stars Betty Hutton and Howard Keel in a sharp shooting adventure based on the fantastic Broadway performance. Annie Get Your Gun is in short a boy-meets-girl story but the musical score and acting performances as well as the extremely well written script make it so ... ...Buffalo Bills Show and when Annie meets him she is instantaneously gob-smacked. Despite her initial attempts however Butler is under no impression that how Annie behaves is "How the girl that I marry" should. Annie however is not going to give up quite so easily and is certain that anything he can do she can do better and goes hell-for-leather to prove it too him. In her own right Annie becomes extremely successful and well sought after but she still ...
MI9to5 02.09.2008
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Advantages: Make you feel warm inside Disadvantages: You realise you know all the show tunes
...on the true story of Annie Oakley, Frank Butler, Colonel Buffaol Bill and Chief Sitting Bull. Annie Get Your Gun, boasts a fantastic Oscar winning score, featuring songs you probably didn't even know were in this film.
"Colonel Buffalo Bill"
"Doin' What Comes Natur'lly"
"The Girl That I Marry"
"There's No Business Like Show Business"
"They Say It's Wonderful"
"My Defences Are Down"
"I'm An Indian Too"
"I Got The Sun In The Morning"
"Anything ... ...the time Betty Hutton as Annie Oakley and Howard Keel as Loving, Shooting, Singing, Frank Butler.
The opening introduction by Susan Lucci, gives background on Annie Oakley, who's life the story follows, and interesting information about the 1950's film. It could have been an entirely different movie altogether. As originally Judy Garland was cast as Annie, but she dropped out due to illness and exhaustion. Leaving the role open for Betty Hutton.
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mysterygirl77 02.03.2006
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Advantages: Family Golden Oldie Disadvantages: not for everyones taste
...Betty Hutton and a superb Annie Oakley was born.
Annie Oakley, a young Wild West Hillbilly teenage girl,aquired her skill for sharp shooting,via a basic need for survival for herself and her kin (family).
Whilst trying to peddle her game to a local hotelier,Buffalo Bills wild west show has come to town with its main star the dashing Sharp Shooter Frank Butler (Howard Keel). As part of the show,there is a contest for any local to compete against ... ...gain $100,knowing Annie and her shooting abilities,the hotelier sees his chance to make a fast buck and pursuades Annie to enter,where she gives Butler a lesson in shooting skills.
Buffalo Bill pursueds Annie to join the show, but this then leaves her in direct conflict with Butler, who she becomes smitten on, the two become so hell bent on beating each other, they miss out on what really matters the fact that they have fallen in love.They say that ...
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Production Year: 1999 - Music / Performing Arts - Original Language: English - Classification: Exempt - Starring: Donny Osmond, Joan Collins, Richard Attenborough