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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 several 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.

Cast

Musical numbers

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 alternative take of Wynn's "Colonel Buffalo Bill", and Garland's renditions of Annie's pieces.

Production history

The film was originally budgeted at $1.5 million, with $600,000 paying for the score and the book.^[2]

Betty Hutton, played Annie Oakley, with Howard Keel (making his American film debut) as Frank Butler and Benay Venuta as Dolly Tate. Louis Calhern played Buffalo Bill, replacing Frank Morgan, who died in 1949.

According to Betty Hutton, she was treated coldly by most of the cast and crew because she had replaced Garland. During an interview with Robert Osborne (first telecast on Turner Classic Movies "Private Screenings" on July 18, 2000), she recalled the other cast members being hostile and the MGM management as so unappreciative they neglected to invite her to the New York premiere. By all accounts, Hutton clashed with co-star Howard Keel. Years later, Keel recalled Hutton as "a scene stealer" and "insecure". In his autobiography Only Make Believe: My Life in Show Business, Keel wrote that on one occasion Hutton was upset because she felt Keel was upstaging her and they reshot the scene 35 times until she was satisfied with it. Hutton wrote in her memoir Backstage You Can Have that Keel was a "green horn" who tried to pull focus from her performance. Reportedly, she felt the only major cast member who treated her with any kindness and respect was Louis Calhern. Hutton also stated that one day Judy Garland was visiting the set and that Hutton greeted her with a bouncy "Hiya', Judy!", only to be answered by a string of profanities from Garland. Years later, the two women became friendly while each was performing in Las Vegas. According to Hutton, Garland admitted that she never felt she was right for the part of Annie and had been relieved when Hutton took over.

Only two production numbers were completed with Garland, "Doin' What Comes Naturally" and "I'm an Indian, Too" and these were officially released by MGM for the first time in the 1994 documentary That's Entertainment III. All of Garland's studio prerecordings for the film exist and were officially released by Rhino Records in 2000 for the film's first complete and remastered soundtrack CD, with Betty Hutton's renditions of the same numbers from the film.

Release and reception

The film premiered at Loew's State Theatre in New York City on May 17, 1950.^[4] Despite the production problems, the film garnered mostly favorable reviews from critics. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called it "a whale of a musical picture" with Hutton giving the lead role "a great deal of humor and bounce."^[5] Variety declared it "socko musical entertainment on film, just as it was on the Broadway stage ... Wonderfully stimulating, always entertaining, 'Annie' should do a lot to push the slogan, 'Movies Are Better Than Ever.'"^[6] Harrison's Reports wrote that "it holds one captivated from start to finish with the brilliance of its color photography, the lavish sets, the huge cast, the colorful costumes, the lilting Berlin tunes and, foremost, the truly wonderful performance given by the dynamic Betty Hutton, as 'Annie Oakley.'"^[7] Richard L. Coe of The Washington Post called it "a swell musical—a picture everybody will enjoy," adding that "while Annie is a juicy part, it's hard to think of anyone who could have done it as well as Betty has."^[8] John McCarten of The New Yorker wrote that it was "far superior to the usual line of Hollywood goods," though in comparison to the stage version, Hutton "never projects the hilarity of the business with anything like the enormous competence of Miss Merman."^[9] The Monthly Film Bulletin called Berlin's music "very enjoyable" but faulted the direction because "the staging of the numbers rarely takes advantage of the amplitude of the sets or the mobility of the camera," and thought that Hutton played the role "as a series of turns rather than as an acting performance."^[10]

The film was one of the top-grossing pictures of the year.^[11] During its initial release, MGM recorded it as earning $4,708,000 in the US and Canada and $3,048,000 overseas, resulting in a profit of $1,061,000.^[1]^[12]

In 1973 it was withdrawn from distribution, owing to a dispute between Irving Berlin and MGM over music rights, which prevented the public from viewing this film for almost 30 years. It was not until the film's 50th Anniversary in 2000 that it was finally seen again in its entirety.

One of Hutton's costumes, the very first "Wild West Show" costume seen in the film for the reprise of "There's No Business Like Show Business" is on permanent display at the Costume World Broadway Collection Museum in Pompano Beach, Florida.

Awards and honors

References

1. ^¹²{{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study | place = Los Angeles}}.
2. ^[https://archive.org/stream/variety174-1949-04#page/n1/mode/2up Variety April 1949 p 3]
3. ^¹Green, Stanley; revised and updated by Elaine Schmidt. Hollywood Musicals Year By Year, Second Edition (1999) Hal Leonard Corporation, p. 159 {{ISBN|0-634-00765-3}}
4. ^{{cite book |last=Arceri |first=Gene |date=2009 |title=Rocking Horse - A Personal Biography of Betty Hutton |url= |location= |publisher=BearManor Media |page= |isbn=9781593933210 |accessdate= }}
5. ^{{cite journal |last=Crowther |first=Bosley |date=May 18, 1950 |title=The Screen: Three Films Make Their Bows |url= |journal=The Washington Post |location= |publisher= |page=B7 |accessdate= }}
6. ^{{cite journal |last= |first= |date=April 12, 1950 |title=Annie Get Your Gun |url= |journal=Variety |location= |publisher= |page=6 |accessdate= }}
7. ^{{cite journal |last= |first= |date=April 15, 1950 |title='Annie Get Your Gun' with Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, and Edward Arnold |url= |journal=Harrison's Reports |location= |publisher= |page=58 |accessdate= }}
8. ^{{cite journal |last=Coe |first=Richard L. |date=June 15, 1950 |title='Annie' a Musical Everyone'll Like |url= |journal=The Washington Post |location= |publisher= |page=B7 |accessdate= }}
9. ^{{cite journal |last=McCarten |first=John |date=May 20, 1950 |title=The Current Cinema |url= |journal=The New Yorker |location= |publisher= |page=105 |accessdate= }}
10. ^{{cite journal |last= |first= |date=July 1950 |title=Annie Get Your Gun |url= |journal=The Monthly Film Bulletin |location= |volume=17 |issue=198 |publisher= |page=98 |accessdate= }}
11. ^{{cite journal |last= |first= |date=January 17, 1951 |title=All-Time Top Grossers |url= |journal=Variety |location= |publisher= |page=5 |accessdate= }}
12. ^Background information from the Judy Garland Database
13. ^{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/83779/Annie-Get-Your-Gun/details |title=NY Times: Annie Get Your Gun |accessdate=2008-12-20|work=NY Times}}