Betty Hutton

Howard Keel

Louis Calhern

J. Carrol Naish

Edward Arnold

Keenan Wynn

Benay Venuta

Clinton Sundberg

Dorothy Abbott

Bette Arlen

Polly Bailey

Hal Bell

Evelyn Beresford

Margaret Bert

Norman Borine

Tex Brodus

Eleanor Brown

Archie Butler

George Calliga

Sue Carlton

Bridget Carr

Sue Casey

André Charlot

Dorinda Clifton

Mae Clarke

Diane Dick

Helen Dickson

Michael Dugan

Phil Dunham

Edward Earle

Marietta Elliott

Herbert Evans

Luigi Faccuito

Budd Fine

Elizabeth Flournoy

Lee Tung Foo

Mary Jane French

Fred Gilman

Mary Gleason

A. Cameron Grant

Marion Gray

William Hall

John Hamilton

Sam Harris

James Harrison

Jean Harrison

Dell Henderson

Carol Henry

Shep Houghton

Tom Humphrey

Ed Kilroy

Helen Kimball

Judy Landon

Nolan Leary

Meredith Leeds

Casey MacGregor

Robert Malcolm

Charles Mauu

Edith Mills

Rhea Mitchell

Joe Molina

Brad Morrow

Forbes Murray

John Mylong

Kerry O'Day

Anne O'Neal

Susan Odin

Rusty Parent

Nino Pipitone

Peter Price

Charles Regan

Al Rhein

Alex Romero

Buddy Roosevelt

Carl Sepulveda

Carl Sklover

Dorothy Skyeagle

Sandra Spence

Shooting Star

Larry Steers

Riley Sunrise

William Tannen

Tony Taylor

Jack Trent

Ellinor Vanderveer

Jackee Waldron

Alice Wallace

John War Eagle

Bunny Waters

Frank Wilcox

Billy Wilkerson

Marjorie Wood

Chief Yowlachie

George Sidney

Sidney Sheldon

Paul Groesse

James E. Newcom

Jack Dawn

Cedric Gibbons

Edwin B. Willis

Irving Berlin

Herbert Fields

A. Arnold Gillespie

Douglas Shearer

Dorothy Fields

Helen Rose

Adolph Deutsch

Warren Newcombe

Sydney Guilaroff

Charles Rosher

Arthur Freed

Walter Plunkett

Music

Comedy

Romance

Western

Annie Get Your Gun

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

United States of America

Annie get your gun, your man and lift the ceiling off of those rafters.

Out of MGM, Annie Get Your Gun is primarily directed by George Sidney and adapted for the screen by Sidney Sheldon from the book written by Dorothy & Herbert Fields. It stars Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Benay Venuta, Louis Calhern & J. Carrol Naish. Music is by Irving Berlin and photography is by Charles Rosher. It is a Technicolor production. It's loosely based on the life of sharpshooting Annie Oakley and this film production comes after the immense success of the stage play that began its run in 1946. Plot sees Hutton as Annie Oakley, a simple backwoods kinda girl, who after beating famed sharpshooter Frank Butler (Keel) in a contest, goes on to be world famous. But with fame comes tribulations, not least is that she has a thing for Frank.

Ebullient and colorful musical that asks you to leave history at the door and just enjoy the ride. The film famously had a troubled production, Judy Garland (Annie) had to leave due to ill health, Frank Morgan (Buffalo Bill) passed away and George Sidney was the third director to work on the film after Busby Berkeley and Charles Walters had left the lot. Even after the new cast and team reconvened there was bad feeling on set, with most of it aimed towards Hutton purely because she had replaced Garland. Post the film's major success, a dispute between MGM and Irving Berlin meant the film was pulled from circulation in 1973 and wasn't seen again till 2000. Thankfully since then a whole new era of musical fans can now enjoy, along with the older supporters, this marvellous piece of entertainment. With show stopping tunes like "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly", "You Can't Get a Man With a Gun", "There's No Business Like Show Business" and "Anything you Can Do" bursting out from the screen like rays of sunshine, it's film to light up the darkest of days when you're feeling blue. Oh and for the record, Hutton is an absolute delight, attacking the lead role with a zest that belies the bad time she was getting off camera. Great comic timing, too. 8/10

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