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Annie Get Your Gun is a 1950 American musical Technicolor comedy film loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley.The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon based on the 1946 stage musical of the same name, was directed by George Sidney.
Between 1954 and 1957, Davis starred in the Annie Oakley series which ran for 81 episodes. An adroit horseback rider, Davis also toured North America in Gene Autry's traveling rodeo . She went on to manage other celebrities. [ 7 ]
Annie Oakley was born Phoebe Ann (Annie) Mosey [1] [2] [3] on August 13, 1860, in a log cabin less than two miles (3.2 km) northwest of Woodland, now Willowdell, in Darke County, Ohio, a rural county along the state line with Indiana. [4] Her birthplace is about five miles (8 km) east of North Star. There is a stone-mounted plaque in the ...
After playing Tagg in the Annie Oakley pilot, Gray joined the cast of Father Knows Best (which premiered in October 1954, nine months after the initial broadcast of Annie Oakley). In the series, Annie Oakley rides a horse named Target: Tagg's horse is Pixie, and Lofty's mount is Forest. [2]
The song is also featured in the 1954 movie of the same name, where it is notably sung by Ethel Merman as the main musical number. [2] The movie, in which she starred with Marilyn Monroe and was directed by Walter Lang, is essentially a catalog of various Berlin's pieces, in the same way that Singin' in the Rain—which starred Donald O'Connor as well—was a collection of Arthur Freed songs.
Annie Oakley (1860–1926) was a sharpshooter in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Annie Oakley may also refer to: Annie Oakley, a short film; Annie Oakley, starring Barbara Stanwyck; Annie Oakley (1954–1957) SS Annie Oakley, a Liberty ship in World War II
The film was the first Western for both Stevens and Stanwyck. [2] While based on the real life of Annie Oakley, it took some liberties with the historical details. The film focuses primarily on Oakley's love affair with Toby Walker (representing Oakley's real-life husband Frank E. Butler) rather than on her career as an exhibition sharpshooter.
The performers in each film were members of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show with Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill themselves exhibiting their rifle shooting skills. [1] The two dances featured members of the Sioux nation who are believed to have been the first Native Americans to perform on film. The lasso thrower was Vicente Oropeza and the ...