Calamity Jane was a pistol-wielding frontierswoman living her life in the wild west of 18th-century America, and, rumour has it she was also an alcoholic, illiterate, sex worker. So why the historical figure was adapted into a 1950s musical with Doris Day playing the lead character, we’ll never know.
But sticking to what we do know – and although this was never meant to be the case – Calamity Jane (1953) is an all-out saloon showdown of gender-bending and…
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