Annie Get Your Gun (1950) |
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Other InformationAwardsBest Written American Musical Writers Guild of America, USA [1951] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy Golden Globes [1951] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Film Editing Academy Awards [1951] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Cinematography, Color Academy Awards [1951] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color Academy Awards [1951] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Academy Awards [1951] (Won/Nominated: Won) Most Popular Female Star Photoplay Awards [1950] (Won/Nominated: Won) Plot SummaryJudy Garland was originally slated to star in MGM`s film version of Irving Berlin`s Annie Get Your Gun, but she was forced to pull out of the production due to illness (recently discovered out-takes reveal a gaunt, dazed Garland, obviously incapable ... TaglineBiggest musical under the sun! "Annie Get Your Gun" is even greater as an M-G-M musical! Related MoviesAnnie Oakley [Version of] (Year of movie: 1935) DiscographySinglesThe Girl That I Marry My Defenses Are Down Colonel Buffulo Bill There`s No Business Like Show Business They Say It`s Wonderful Anything You Can Do I Got Sun in the Morning I`m An Indian Too Doin` What Comes Naturally You Can`t A Man With a Gun |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Chief Sitting Bull: Sitting Bull live by three words: Keep bow tight, Keep arrow sharp,
[and with finality]
Chief Sitting Bull: No put money into shoe budiness.
Charlie Davenport: [rhetorically] How`d we ever get this country away from them?
Annie Oakley: [calling after Frank as he`s walking away] Hey, mister...? Don`t you like girls?
Frank Butler: [not comprehendeding the question] Well... sure!
Annie Oakley: [realizing it herself] I`m a girl.
Frank Butler: [laughing condescendingly as he walks away] That`s fine.
Trivia `Charles Walters (I)` did not know that he had been fired and replaced by George Sidney until he heard gossip columnist Hedda Hopper announce it on the radio. The original Broadway show "Annie Get Your Gun" opened at the Imperial Theater on May 16, 1946 starring Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton and ran for 1,147 performances. According to her 1991 autobiography, "Ginger: My Story," Ginger Rogers would have loved to play Annie Oakley on screen. Approaching MGM producer Arthur Freed, Miss Rogers was told to stick to her high heels. Louis Calhern replaced Frank Morgan in the role of Buffalo Bill after Morgan died just as filming was getting under way. But if you look closely at Buffalo Bill`s very first appearance on his horse, you will see a second of Frank Morgan before the shot of Calhern. Before the eventual casting of Judy Garland as Annie Oakley, Doris Day and Judy Canova were mentioned for the role, as well as Betty Hutton (this was before she eventually replaced Garland in the role). Charles Walters suggested to Arthur Freed that Betty Grable would be an ideal Annie Oakley. However, Twentieth Century-Fox wouldn`t loan her out. The original filming of the opening number, "Colonel Buffalo Bill," with Frank Morgan appearing as Buffalo Bill, and Geraldine Wall featured as Dolly Tate, is an extra on the DVD release from Warner Home Video. In the opening number, it is Frank Morgan as Buffalo Bill seen on the horse. The rest of the film features Louis Calhern because of Frank Morgan`s sudden death. Irving Berlin added one original movie song to his Broadway score, "Let`s Go West Again," which was deleted. Recordings by both Judy Garland and Betty Hutton are contained on the soundtrack CD issued by Rhino. In addition, Miss Hutton`s footage can be seen on the DVD from Warner Home Video. After Judy Garland`s firing from the picture, Betty Garrett was briefly considered as a replacement. Script and casting problems delayed the filming schedule for three months, which allowed Judy Garland to appear in In the Good Old Summertime (1949) in relatively good health. Despite its popularity, this film was unavailable in any form from 1973 until 2000 due to legal tangling between Irving Berlin (and later his estate) and MGM (later Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros). It was finally re-released in 2000 after the 1998 Broadway revival of the stage show with Bernadette Peters renewed interest in seeing this film again. The existing footage of Judy Garland shot prior to her leaving the production shows that some key sequences, most notably "I`m an Indian Too" were originally to have been shot on a soundstage, rather than outdoors. Besides the major roles mentioned above, several child roles were also recast between Garland leaving the film and production resuming with Hutton, as evidenced by the Garland version of "Doin` What Comes Naturally".
Betty Hutton said in an interview that the crew at MGM was not very nice to her because they told her they`d rather have Judy Garland in the role. However, at a recent screening of the re-mastered print of the film, the surviving members of the cast and crew praised Hutton`s performance highly, and acknowledged her contribution to the film. Hutton was one of the surviving cast members who did not attend that screening. Rights to the Broadway show cost $650,000, a record at the time. Geraldine Wall was replaced in the cast by Benay Venuta. Howard Keel broke his leg during filming when a horse fell on it. Director Busby Berkeley was also replaced, by George Sidney. Charles Walters had been set to direct after Berkeley left, but was fired before he could actually shoot any of it. Judy Garland and Frank Morgan, who appeared together in The Wizard of Oz (1939), were scheduled to reappear together in this film. Garland was fired because of health problems, and Frank Morgan died shortly after filming began. As a result of this, Betty Hutton took over Judy Garland`s role as Annie Oakley, and Louis Calhern succeeded Frank Morgan as Buffalo Bill. Judy Garland, originally cast as Annie, was taken ill during early filming and production was halted until Betty Hutton finished Let`s Dance (1950) and was called in to replace her. | ||
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