Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to the local saloon, but jealousy soon gets in the way.
Acting
Doris Day commits fully to swaggering, shooting, and pining.
Score
Secret Love won an Oscar and became an accidental queer anthem.
Costume
The buckskin-to-frills transformation deserves its own thesis.
Director
David Butler
Doris Day
Calamity Jane
Howard Keel
Wild Bill Hickok
Allyn Ann McLerie
Katie Brown
Philip Carey
Lieutenant Danny Gilmartin
Dick Wesson
Francis Fryer
Paul Harvey
Henry Miller
Chubby Johnson
Rattlesnake
Gale Robbins
Adelaid Adams
Billy Bletcher
Prospector (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Officer's Wife in Reception Line (uncredited)
Colin Kenny
Chicagoan (uncredited)
Frank McLure
Officer at Fort Dance (uncredited)
Arthur Tovey
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Chuck Roberson
Barfly (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Calamity Jane became a cult queer text despite the hetero ending; fans read the Jane/Katie romance as buried by censorship.
Doris Day recorded Secret Love in one take and hated it; the studio overruled her and won Best Original Song.
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