
#123movies #fmovies #putlocker #gomovies #solarmovie #soap2day Watch Full Movie Online Free – A story very loosely based on the love story of Annie Oakley and Frank Butler who meet at a shooting match. Fabulous music although the lead characters have virtually nothing to do with the actual historical figures. Annie joins Frank Butler in Col. Cody’s Wild West Show. They tour the world performing before Royalty as well as the public at large.
Plot: Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.
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Annie Is Wonderful, Wonderful, So They Say
Despite the fact that Ethel Merman wasn’t even considered by MGM to repeat her Broadway triumph and Judy Garland fell by the way side, Annie Get Your Gun is still as alive and as fresh as the day it debuted on Broadway and for 1147 performances starting in 1946. It was Irving Berlin’s biggest stage success both quantitatively and qualitatively. It sure had the most hit songs coming out of it, maybe the most for any Broadway show.Because they had Garland, so they thought at MGM, for box office, producer Arthur Freed felt they could go with an unknown for Frank Butler. Both John Raitt and Howard Keel tested for the role and Keel won the toss. Then Keel broke his ankle falling off a horse on the set and they shot closeups and around him, putting pressure on Judy Garland’s fragile psyche. On top of that Frank Morgan who was playing Buffalo Bill died suddenly in the middle of the film. Most of it had to be reshot when Betty Hutton was borrowed from Paramount.
Annie Get Your Gun was the perfect musical to appeal to the Rosie the Riveter crowd who competed and won in a man’s world during World War II. Those women who became feminist icons certainly identified with another feminist icon in Annie Oakley.
The real Annie Oakley was not as brassy as her character in Annie Get Your Gun. By all accounts Phoebe Annie Mosee, aka Annie Oakley was a quiet retiring woman when away from the spotlight. She let her skill with weaponry do her talking.
Irving Berlin wrote so many hits out of this film it’s staggering. Ballads like They Say It’s Wonderful and The Girl That I Marry were recorded by many artists down to the present. My Defenses are Down also sold quite a few platters back in the day.
But of course the theatrical profession got its anthem when Irving Berlin wrote There’s No Business Like Show Business. There’s a really fine recording of it that Bing Crosby, Dick Haymes and the Andrews Sisters did of it with the flipside being Anything You Can Do also another gem from this show.
Some songs didn’t make the cut. A good one that Ethel Merman did called I Got Lost in His Arms is absent from this film, a pity. And Berlin wrote a song called Let’s Go West Again which was to be done on the cattle boat by Hutton and the ensemble was cut. Al Jolson made a recording of it for Decca though.
Louis Calhern and Edward Arnold as Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill play a fine pair of frontier rogues. Calhern captured the character of the real later Cody quite well.
With feminist issues by now means settled, Annie Get Your Gun is maybe more relevant now than when it first came out.
Terrifc musical
With exception of a slightly abrupt ending, Annie Get Your Gun is simply terrific. It has so much energy and vigour, it is for me impossible not to like. Betty Hutton is perfectly cast as Annie Oakley, while the handsome and immensely Howard Keel makes a very impressive movie-musical debut as sharp-shooting Frank Butler. There is also some good dialogue and a fun story. But what makes Annie Get Your Gun asides from the lead performances is the joyous energy the film has, and also George Sidney’s bravura direction, fabulous Technicolour and costume design and the marvellous score and songs from Irving Berlin especially Anything You Can Do(I Can Do Better) and There’s No Business But Show Business. In conclusion, terrific fun. 9/10 Bethany Cox
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 47 min (107 min)
Budget 3768785
Revenue 8000000
Status Released
Rated Passed
Genre Biography, Comedy, Musical
Director George Sidney, Busby Berkeley
Writer Sidney Sheldon, Herbert Fields, Dorothy Fields
Actors Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 6 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor (color)
Film Length 2,946.5 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm