Calamity Jane

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Calamity Jane, 1953.

TCM fan Lyndsay Rouzer-Squyres joins Ben Mankiewicz for an introduction and comments following Calamity Jane, 1933.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces Calamity Jane, 1953.

Having replaced her rough buckskins with a softer cleaner set, with a new hairdo and Joel McCrea's horse, which he loaned to her for the picture, Doris Day (title character) offers the Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster original that became one of her signature songs, in Calamity Jane, 1953.

Doris Day (title character), with saloon owner Miller (Paul Harvey) and maybe-boyfriend Wild Bill Hickock (Howard Keel), laments having promised to bring a big-time singer to Deadwood, inducing another original by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, in Calamity Jane, 1953.

Full throttle opening, original tune by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, Chubby Johnson is the driver and Howard Keel appears as Wild Bill but all are spectators to the star, Doris Day in the title role in the 1953 Warner Bros. hit Calamity Jane.

Doris Day sings the Oscar-winning song "Secret Love" in the Western musical Calamity Jane (1953).