Title: Annie Get Your Gun
Runtime: 107 Min
Year: 1950
Genres: Biography - Comedy - Family
Cast: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Arnold, Keenan Wynn, Benay Venuta, Clinton Sundberg
Directed By: George Sidney and Busby Berkeley (uncredited) (footage unused and completely reshot)
PLOT
Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who was raised 'Doin' What Comes Naturally'. Frank Butler, the star sharpshooter in 'Colonel Buffalo Bill''s show, however, knows full well that's not how 'The Girl That I Marry' must be. Anyway, not at least until he finds that 'My Defences are Down'. Though Annie defiantly says 'Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better', she realizes that 'You Can't Get a Man With a Gun'. The victor at the end is love; as you know, 'It's Wonderful'. After all, 'There's No Business Like Show Business'.
Country: U.S.A.
Language: English
Writers: Sidney Sheldon (screenplay), Herbert Fields (book for "Annie Get Your Gun") & Dorothy Fields (book for "Annie Get Your Gun")
Awards:
1944- Academy Awards, USA (Oscar)
-Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Adolph Deutsch and Roger Edens (WON)
-Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color Cedric Gibbons, Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis and Richard Pefferle (NOMINATED)
-Best Cinematography, Color Charles Rosher (NOMINATED)
-Best Film Editing James E. Newcom (NOMINATED)
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