Photos Top cast Edit. Chubby Johnson Rattlesnake as Rattlesnake. Victor Adamson Barfly as Barfly uncredited. Fred Aldrich Chicagoan as Chicagoan uncredited. Leon Alton Townsman as Townsman uncredited. Emile Avery Barfly as Barfly uncredited.
George Bell Barfly as Barfly uncredited. Billy Bletcher Prospector as Prospector uncredited. David Butler. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Deadwood, Dakota Territory, is largely the abode of men, where Indian scout Calamity Jane is as hard-riding, boastful, and handy with a gun as any; quite an overpowering personality.
But the army lieutenant she favors doesn't really appreciate her finer qualities. One of Jane's boasts brings her to Chicago to recruit an actress for the Golden Garter stage. Arrived, the lady in question appears at first to be a more feminine rival for the favors of Jane's male friends It's the big bonanza in musical extravaganza!
Did you know Edit. Trivia Doris Day recorded the song "Secret Love" in only one take. Goofs After leaving the ball at the fort, we cut to a shot of Calamity's bare back as she is undressing. Once she gets the dress off she is shown wearing undergarments that clearly cover most of her back. User reviews 95 Review. Top review. A musical and sympathetic portrayal of the known frontier wildcat stunningly played by Doris Day.
She also began engaging in conflicts with Native Americans. It was here that she met Wild Bill Hickok, with whom she became obsessed.
After he was killed that same year during a poker game, Calamity Jane claimed that she had been married to Wild Bill Hickok and that he was the father of her alleged daughter, born in and given up for adoption. Calamity Jane, besides being known for her skills as a scout, was also known for her kindness. She saved many American lives by diverting attacks from Native Americans and also served as a nurse during a smallpox epidemic. She was a horse rider and trick shooter in the show, but her addiction to alcohol, which was evident from an early age, became more and more consuming.
In , Calamity Jane returned to Black Hills, South Dakota and died at the age of 51 from an alcohol-related illness. Libby Larsen.
Calamity Jane. She had grown up tall and powerfully built with many male characteristics. Illiterate and poor, she was forced to move from one place to another, taking any work available to survive. She was surrounded by desperate people, also scrapping out a living, and not providing a nurturing environment for a young impressionable girl. It is also believed that as a teenager she occasionally engaged in prostitution, as it was more lucrative and always in demand.
In , Jane traveled with a U. At this point the legends surrounding her life become abundant and the facts harder to find. She is said to have had numerous affairs with some of the most notorious desperados of the time.
One such story was her relationship with Western legend Hickok, whom she probably did meet in Deadwood. Their alleged dalliance launched her name into the annals of Western folklore. Jane was also known for her softer side. In her autobiography, she takes credit for rescuing a runaway stagecoach fleeing from a Cheyenne Indian war party by bravely driving the coach to Deadwood with six passengers and a wounded driver.
There are also accounts from several sources of her helping nurse patients during a smallpox epidemic in Deadwood. The accounts have several versions and documentation of her role in the events is suspect, but the stories are plausible because the events did occur.
In addition to her alleged relationship to Hickok, there were saucy tales, creatively recorded by Western dime novel authors, of wild sex, a child born, and even marriage to Hickok. There are numerous stories, with varying levels of credibility, that Jane was a wife and mother one time. Around , she supposedly married a man named Burke Edward or Clinton and gave birth to a daughter in
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