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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.
Gail Davis (born Betty Jeanne Grayson; October 5, 1925 – March 15, 1997) was an American actress and singer, best known for her starring role as Annie Oakley in the 1950s television series Annie Oakley. [1]
Her breakthrough role came in Preston Sturges's The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944), and she went on to receive further notice for her lead role as Annie Oakley in the musical Annie Get Your Gun (1950), and for Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Greatest Show on Earth (1952). She made her final feature film appearance in Spring Reunion (1957).
The cast recorded an album, Annie Get Your Gun - 1986 London Cast [29] and Quatro's songs "I Got Lost in His Arms"/"You Can't Get a Man with a Gun" were released as a single. [27] Since then "I Got Lost in His Arms" has also been included in the compilation albums The Divas Collection (2003) [30] and Songs from the Greatest Musicals (2008). [31]
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The 1950 film version of the musical starred Betty Hutton and Howard Keel. Several years after headlining the 1948 national tour, Mary Martin returned to the role for a 1957 NBC television special that also featured John Raitt as Frank Butler. Gail Davis played a fictionalized version of Oakley in the television series Annie Oakley (1954 to 1956).
Elmer Bradley Johnson (July 23, 1924 – April 4, 1981), was an American film and television actor, best remembered for his role as the deputy Lofty Craig on the 1950s Western series, Annie Oakley. He also appeared on Gunsmoke in “Cattle Barons” as “Laskin” (S13E2). Was also a cast member on the first episode of Death Valley Days in ...
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