Annie Get Your Gun (film)

Annie Get Your Gun
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGeorge Sidney
Busby Berkeley (uncredited)
Charles Walters (uncredited)
Screenplay bySidney Sheldon
Based onAnnie Get Your Gun
1946 book
by Dorothy Fields
Herbert Fields
Produced byArthur Freed
Roger Edens
StarringBetty Hutton
Howard Keel
Louis Calhern
Keenan Wynn
Benay Venuta
J. Carrol Naish
CinematographyCharles Rosher
Edited byJames E. Newcom
Music bySongs: (lyrics and music by) Irving Berlin
Music Direction: Adolph Deutsch
Additional music:Roger Edens
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's, Inc.
Release date
  • May 17, 1950 (1950-05-17)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3,734,000[1]
Box office$7,756,000[1]

Annie Get Your Gun is a 1950 American musical Technicolor comedy film loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon based on the 1946 stage musical of the same name, was directed by George Sidney. Despite several production and casting problems (Judy Garland was fired from the lead role after a month of filming in which she clashed with the director and repeatedly showed up late or not at all), the film won the Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture and received three other nominations. Star Betty Hutton was recognized with a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.