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Annie Get Your Gun 1950 3 stars

    N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Family / Western / Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Arnold, Keenan Wynn, Benay Venuta, Clinton Sundberg, James Harrison, Mae Clarke, John Hamilton, Anne O'Neal, William Tannen, Frank Wilcox, Chief Yowlachie

  This film features Irving Berlin songs "Anything You Can Do," "Doin' What Comes Naturally," and "There's No Business Like Show Business." It is the story of sharpshooter Annie Oakley's (Betty Hutton) life in Buffalo Bill's (Louis Calhern) Wild West Show and her romance with the show's star sharpshooter Frank Butler (Howard Keel).

Call Me Mister 1951 2 and a half stars

    N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Danny Thomas, Dale Robertson, Benay Venuta, Richard Boone, Jeffrey Hunter, Harry von Zell, Jerry Paris

  In this film, which is based on the Broadway musical, Dan Dailey takes on the role of Shep Dooley, the American GI who goes AWOL in Japan to meet with his wife, Kay (Betty Grable), who is touring with a USO troupe.

The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown 1957 1 and a half stars

    N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Jane Russell, Keenan Wynn, Ralph Meeker, Fred Clark, Adolphe Menjou, Una Merkel, Benay Venuta, Robert Harris, Milton Frome, Dick Haynes

  After kidnapping movie star Laurel Stevens (Jane Russell), criminals Dandy (Keenan Wynn) and Mike Valla (Ralph Meeker) are frustrated when their ransom note is taken for a publicity stunt.

Stars and Stripes Forever 1952 2 and a half stars

    N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Henry Koster
Cast: Clifton Webb, Debra Paget, Robert Wagner, Ruth Hussey, Finlay Currie, Roy Roberts, Thomas Browne Henry, Olan Soule, Roger Moore, Benay Venuta

  John Philip Sousa's march tunes are woven into the script of this enjoyable (even if shallow) biography of the leader of the United States Marine Corps Band.

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