Calamity Jane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western musical film starring Doris Day and Howard Keel, and directed by David Butler. The musical numbers were staged and directed by Jack Donohue, who a year later would direct the Day musical Lucky Me (1954). The film is loosely based on the life of Wild West heroine Calamity Jane (Doris Day) and explores an alleged romance between her and Wild Bill Hickok (Howard Keel).

Plot

In the Dakota Territory during the 1870s tough-talking, hard-riding, straight-shooting Calamity Jane rides into town on top of the Deadwood stage, wielding a rifle, and boasts, not always honestly, of her Indian-fighting exploits at a saloon where she has a "sassparilly". She has a crush on Lieutenant Gilmartin, and when survivors of an Indian attack stumble into the saloon and say he was wounded, she even risks life and limb and single-handedly saves him from an Indian war party.