Annie Get Your Gun (film)
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by |
George Sidney Busby Berkeley (uncredited) Charles Walters (uncredited) |
| Produced by |
Arthur Freed Roger Edens |
| Screenplay by | Sidney Sheldon |
| Based on |
Annie Get Your Gun 1946 book by Dorothy Fields Herbert Fields |
| Starring |
Betty Hutton Howard Keel Benay Venuta |
| Music by |
Irving Berlin originally Jerome Kern |
| Cinematography | Charles Rosher |
| Edited by | James E. Newcom |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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107 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,734,000 |
| Box office | $7,756,000 |
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. Despite some production and casting problems (Judy Garland was fired from the lead role after a month of filming in which she clashed with the director and repeatedly showed up late or not at all), the film won the Academy Award for best score and received three other nominations. Star Betty Hutton was recognized with a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.
The film adaptation cut the following numbers from the original score: "I'm a Bad, Bad Man", "Moonshine Lullaby", and "I Got Lost in His Arms", ("An Old Fashioned Wedding" was written for the 1966 revival). The 2000 compact disc release of the soundtrack includes all of the film's numbers and, "Let's Go West Again" (a Hutton number deleted before the film's release), an alternate take of Wynn's "Colonel Buffalo Bill", and Garland's renditions of Annie's pieces.
The film was originally budgeted at $1.5 million, with $600,000 paying for the score and the book.
Paramount's blonde bombshell, Betty Hutton, played Annie Oakley, with Howard Keel (making his American film debut) as Frank Butler and Benay Venuta as Dolly Tate. Frank Morgan, cast as Buffalo Bill Cody, died suddenly of a heart attack shortly after shooting the film's opening production number, "Colonel Buffalo Bill." Morgan was replaced by Louis Calhern.
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