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| DVD Information |  | Annie Get Your Gun | | Hutton, Betty | | Keel, Howard | | UPC: 012569543829 | | Musicals & Performing Arts : General | | Amazon.com
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 --This text refers to the VHS Tape edition.
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Included on this DVD release, and of prime interest to many fans, are two scenes originally filmed by Judy Garland before she was replaced by Betty Hutton. By unfortunate coincidence, those two are the least flattering, with Doin' What Comes Naturally portraying Garland as a backwoods hick and I'm an Indian Too (filmed on a set strikingly different from what was used in the final Hutton version) showing her in Indian face paint. Garland is warm and likable in the first number, without the... read more | | | | Products related to "Annie Get Your Gun" from Amazon.com | |
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