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This 1953 musical is very much a vehicle for Doris Day, in the
title role, as a wild cowgal who can outshoot and outsing any boy on
the range. When an actress arrives in Deadwood and uses her feminine
charms on Jane's secret love, Wild Bill Hickock (Howard Keel), Jane
tries to mend her tomboy ways. Not exactly up to the feminist code of
honor, this is still energetic and Day is very perky. Of course, one
could almost detect a homosexual undercurrent with the cross-dressing
Jane, but this was Hollywood in the 1950s, so we best not. This won an
Oscar for Best Song--"Secret Love," by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis
Webster. --Rochelle O'Gorman
