Annie Oakley Summary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Stevens
Genres: Drama
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This highly fictionalized biopic of legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley stars Barbara_Stanwyck as "Little Sure Shot" Annie. Coming down from the hills of Ohio, Annie rises to fame with Buffalo Bill's (Moroni_Olsen) Wild West Show. Her success as a performer is counterpointed by her stormy romance with fellow performer Toby Foster (Preston_S._Foster), whose reputation as the World's Great Marksman is shot to holes by Annie's accomplishments. Walking out on Annie and the show, Toby loses himself in the streets of New York but is discovered and dragged back by Annie's faithful Indian friend Sitting Bull (Chief_Thunderbird, whose performance is far from politically correct but undeniably amusing). Melvyn_Douglas co-stars as Annie's manager and would-be boyfriend Jeff Hogarth, while an uncredited Dick_Elliot delivers a hearty performance as press agent Ned Buntline; others in the cast include such 2-reel comedy favorites as Charlie_Hall and Harry_Bernard, who like director George_Stevens were alumni of the Hal_Roach fun factory. The much-later musical version of the Annie Oakley story, Irving_Berlin's Annie_Get_Your_Gun, bears traces of this 1935 film, but not so much as to constitute plagiarism (Coincidentally, Herbert_Fields, one of the writers of Annie Oakley, collaborated with his sister Dorothy on the libretto of Annie_Get_Your_Gun). Hal Erickson, Rovi
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