Annie Get Your Gun (50th Anniversary Special Edition) Digital Life VHS

Annie Get Your Gun (50th Anniversary Special Edition)
starring: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Arnold
directed by: Busby Berkeley, George Sidney

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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0012569543836
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: November 14, 2000
Running Time: 107 minutes
Sales Rank: 2626
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 17, 1950

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Never before available on home video and unseen on television since 1973, the 1950 production of Annie Get Your Gun has achieved somewhat legendary status, most notably for who would inherit the role Ethel Merman had made famous on Broadway in 1946. MGM originally cast Judy Garland, but her ongoing drug and alcohol problems led to her being fired and replaced by Betty Hutton. Fortunately, the bright and brassy Hutton sparkles in this highly fictionalized story of Annie Oakley, the sharpshooter who wins fame in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and wins the heart of fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler (Howard Keel). Dashing baritone Keel was beginning his career as one of MGM's favorite leading men in the 1950s (including Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Kiss Me, Kate). Together they make gold of the many Irving Berlin hits--'Doin' What Comes Naturally,' 'Anything You Can Do,' 'They Say It's Wonderful,' 'I Got the Sun in the Morning,' and the classic anthem 'There's No Business Like Show Business.'

Annie Get Your Gun is unquestionably a product of the 1950s. Keel's relentless chauvinism and Hutton's constant fawning over him grow tiresome (though she does stand up to him in a battle of the sexes), and the Indians wear full headdresses and face paint, say 'Ugh,' and destroy modern conveniences. (In the name of political correctness, the 1999 Broadway revival starring Bernadette Peters removed 'I'm an Indian Too' and received its own share of criticism from purists.) Quibbles aside, the excellent cast and immortal score make Annie Get Your Gun a classic musical. It's great to have it back. --David Horiuchi

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- Annie Get Your Gun - DVD
This is a great family musical - My four year old granddaughter requested this movie for a birthday gift.

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- Annie Get Your Gun
I have searched for this movie for some time, thank you Amazon the quality is perfect an I just love the movie
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- No business like show business!
This is show business at it's best. My six year old niece, when asked her favorite movie, doesn't say Little Mermaid, or Hannah Montana, she says, "Annie get your gun, with Betty Hutton 1952" Honestly!

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- Everything About it Is Appealing
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN is one of the great musicals of the theater and 1950 film adaption certainly ranks with the most beloved movie musicals, a true classic despite being locked away for almost 30 years. The movie stars the amazing Betty Hutton as Annie Oakley, a real woman from Ohio whose phenomeonal shooting ability made her an international celebrity in the late 1800's up until her death in 1926. Annie's life story seemed destined for the stage and screen for not only was she a unique celebrity but she fell in love with the man who was considered the greatest marksman of the era whom she proved was an inferior shot making their love a classic plot for a battle of the sexes romantic tale.

This Irving Berlin musical meets it's perfect Annie in Betty Hutton, who captures all of of the shadings of Berlin's character - the simple illiterate, the loudmouth hick, the wistful lover, the professional showwoman. ... Read More

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