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'''Bill:''' ''(stops her again)'' You needed a lesson! [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Who are you to tell people who to love? Suppose you did scare her out of town, would that get your lieutenant back? Would that stop Katie from loving him, or him her?]] That's female thinking. He'd bring her back, and they would both hate you. You had to lose tonight, Calam, or you'd never win again.

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'''Bill:''' ''(stops her again)'' You needed a lesson! [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Who are you to tell people who to love? Suppose you did scare her that girl out of town, would that get your lieutenant back? Would that stop Katie from loving him, or him her?]] That's female thinking. He'd bring her back, and they would both hate you. You had to lose tonight, Calam, or you'd never win again.
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'''Bill:''' ''(stops her again)'' You needed a lesson! Who are you to tell people who to love? Suppose you did scare her out of town, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion would that get your lieutenant back? Would that stop Katie from loving him, or him her?]] That's female thinking. He'd bring her back, and they would both hate you. You had to lose tonight, Calam, or you'd never win again.

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'''Bill:''' ''(stops her again)'' You needed a lesson! [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Who are you to tell people who to love? Suppose you did scare her out of town, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion would that get your lieutenant back? Would that stop Katie from loving him, or him her?]] That's female thinking. He'd bring her back, and they would both hate you. You had to lose tonight, Calam, or you'd never win again.
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-->'''Bill:''' I've seen you do lots of crazy things, Calam, but this is the first time I've seen you make a blasted fool of yourself. Now you sit down and listen! You're a fake, Calam. You dress, talk, write and shoot like a man, but you think like a female! Like a green-eyed, snarling, spitting female. Katie beat you. She beat you twice, out of your man and out of the respect you used to have around here. And you helped her! I did, too. She didn't shoot the glass out of your hand, I did. \\

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-->'''Bill:''' I've seen you do lots of crazy things, Calam, but this is the first time I've seen you make a blasted fool of yourself. ''(stops her from leaving)'' Now you sit down and listen! You're a fake, Calam. You dress, talk, write and shoot like a man, but you think like a female! Like a green-eyed, snarling, spitting female. Katie beat you. She beat you twice, out of your man and out of the respect you used to have around here. And you helped her! I did, too. She didn't shoot the glass out of your hand, I did. \\

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-->'''Bill:''' I've seen you do lots of crazy things, Calam, but this is the first time I've seen you make a blasted fool of yourself. Now you sit down and listen! You're a fake, Calam. You dress, talk, write and shoot like a man,
but you think like a female! Like a green-eyed, snarling, spitting female. Katie beat you. She beat you twice, out of your man and out of the respect you used to have around here. And you helped her! I did, too. She didn't shoot the glass out of your hand, I did. \\

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-->'''Bill:''' I've seen you do lots of crazy things, Calam, but this is the first time I've seen you make a blasted fool of yourself. Now you sit down and listen! You're a fake, Calam. You dress, talk, write and shoot like a man,
man, but you think like a female! Like a green-eyed, snarling, spitting female. Katie beat you. She beat you twice, out of your man and out of the respect you used to have around here. And you helped her! I did, too. She didn't shoot the glass out of your hand, I did. \\
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Bill gives one to Calamity Jane in a ToughLove way, in order to knock some sense into her.
-->'''Bill:''' I've seen you do lots of crazy things, Calam, but this is the first time I've seen you make a blasted fool of yourself. Now you sit down and listen! You're a fake, Calam. You dress, talk, write and shoot like a man,
but you think like a female! Like a green-eyed, snarling, spitting female. Katie beat you. She beat you twice, out of your man and out of the respect you used to have around here. And you helped her! I did, too. She didn't shoot the glass out of your hand, I did. \\
'''Jane:''' Why, you...! ''(starts to lunge at him)'' \\
'''Bill:''' ''(stops her again)'' You needed a lesson! Who are you to tell people who to love? Suppose you did scare her out of town, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion would that get your lieutenant back? Would that stop Katie from loving him, or him her?]] That's female thinking. He'd bring her back, and they would both hate you. You had to lose tonight, Calam, or you'd never win again.
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'''Bill:''' [[LampshadeHanging It's funny, ain't it?]] \\

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'''Bill:''' [[LampshadeHanging It's funny, ain't it?]] \\it?]]

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* NotSoDifferent: During a pretty sad scene in the woods, Jane cries about how crazy in love she was with Danny. Bill then softly reveals the he felt the same about Katie. It soo

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* NotSoDifferent: During a pretty sad scene in the woods, Jane cries about how crazy in love she was with Danny. Bill then softly reveals the he felt the same about Katie. It soosoon leads to their LoveEpiphany.
-->'''Jane:''' ''(crying)'' I was so plumb crazy about him. \\
'''Bill:''' Yeah I know. I felt the same way about her. \\
'''Jane:''' You mean, you're in love with Katie? \\
'''Bill:''' [[LampshadeHanging It's funny, ain't it?]] \\
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* LoveEpiphany: Both Jane and Bill experience this when they commiserate over losing the people they're in love with (Danny and Katie, respectively) and they realize that they loved each other all along.


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* NotSoDifferent: During a pretty sad scene in the woods, Jane cries about how crazy in love she was with Danny. Bill then softly reveals the he felt the same about Katie. It soo
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* ToughLove: After he brings her into the woods after her confrontation with Katie, Bill reveals himself to be the one who shot the glass out of her hand and allowed Katie to take credit because he wanted to teach her a lesson that scaring Katie out of town won't bring Danny back. He then comforts a heartbroken Jane by revealing that he too had unrequited feelings for Katie, which led to their LoveEpiphany.
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* ScreenToStageAdaptation: One was made in 1961, and has been revived several times. It features six new songs, by the original writers.

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* LadyLooksLikeADude: Due to her masculine appearance, Katie initially mistakes Jane for a man.

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* LadyLooksLikeADude: LadyLooksLikeADude:
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Due to her masculine appearance, Katie initially mistakes Jane for a man.man.
** In the stage version, we get this after the Deadwood Stage comes in:
---> '''Calamity:''' Came darn near pluggin' that feller in the store when he called me “buddy ". Wanted to know what my wife's name was, 'n if I'd any kids!
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* DigitalDestruction: The colour balance keeps on shifting subtly on the UK DVD, sometimes from second to second.
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** At the dance, Bill takes Calamity's coat to show off her gown as he goes to hang it up. He takes a few steps before stopping then slowly turning around as Howard Keel provides one of the most epic open-jawed, wide-eyed looks of utter astonishment in film history.

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->"Excitement? Why, I got more arrows in the back of that coach than a porcupine has got stickers!"
-->'''Calamity Jane'''

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->"Excitement? [[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/calamity_jane.jpg]]

->''"Excitement?
Why, I got more arrows in the back of that coach than a porcupine has got stickers!"
-->'''Calamity
stickers!"''
-->-- '''Calamity
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A 1953 movie musical based on the famous gunslinger, ''Calamity Jane'' starred Doris Day as the title character and Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok. One of the film's songs, "Secret Love", became an Oscar-winning hit song for Day.

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A 1953 movie musical based on the famous gunslinger, ''Calamity Jane'' starred Doris Day Creator/DorisDay as the title character and Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok. One of the film's songs, "Secret Love", became an Oscar-winning hit song for Day.
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* BattleCouple: Considering how Calamity Jane and Bill Hickok are skilled gunslingers and like trouble, you'd think they'd turn out to be this couple in an instant, but it's implied to be averted after they get together as both of them want to settle down and raise children. They've been close friends for quite some time, so it's not outlandish to assume that they played this straight at some point.
--> '''Bill's friend:''' I don't know what kinda life you're gonna have living with that catamount, Bill, but it ain't gonna be dull!
--> '''Bill:''' That's fer dang sure.
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* LastSecondWordSwap: From "I Can Do Without You": ''You can go to... Philadelphia''. Calamity's hesitation implies she wanted [[{{Hell}} a word]] that rhymes with the third syllable of "Philadelphia".


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* ObliviousToLove: Calamity fails to notice that Bill is in love with her, and that Danny isn't.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Calamity finds Katie mistaking her for a man to be hilarious, until [[LadyLooksLikeADude the implications]] sink in.



* NoManOfWomanBorn: When Bill is forced to dress like a female Indian at the saloon, everyone laughs out loud. Angered, Bill pulls out a gun and warns he'll "put a bullet in the next man who laughs." Instant silence...except for Calamity, who keeps laughing hysterically.

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* NoManOfWomanBorn: When Bill is forced to dress like a female Indian at the saloon, everyone laughs out loud. Angered, Bill pulls out a gun and warns he'll "put a bullet in the next man who laughs." Instant silence... except for Calamity, who keeps laughing hysterically.

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The RealLife Calamity Jane didn't look like Doris Day ''at all.'' In fact, photos of the time show she looked more like Howard Keel. No, really; Martha Jane Cannary looked more like a man than a woman.


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* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: The RealLife Calamity Jane didn't look like Doris Day ''at all.'' In fact, photos of the time show she looked more like Howard Keel. No, really; Martha Jane Cannary looked more like a man than a woman.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The RealLife Calamity Jane didn't look like Doris Day ''at all.'' In fact, photos of the time show she looked more like Howard Keel. No, really; Martha Jane Cannary had a ''very'' masculine build and face.

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The RealLife Calamity Jane didn't look like Doris Day ''at all.'' In fact, photos of the time show she looked more like Howard Keel. No, really; Martha Jane Cannary had looked more like a ''very'' masculine build and face.man than a woman.

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The RealLife Calamity Jane was so-called because so many of her lovers ended up on Boot Hill. Additionally, she didn't look like Doris Day at all. In fact, photos of the time show she looked more like Howard Keel. No, really; Martha Jane Cannary had a very masculine build and face.


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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The RealLife Calamity Jane didn't look like Doris Day ''at all.'' In fact, photos of the time show she looked more like Howard Keel. No, really; Martha Jane Cannary had a ''very'' masculine build and face.
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A 1953 movie musical based on the famous gunslinger, ''Calamity Jane'' starred DorisDay as the title character and Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok. One of the film's songs, "Secret Love", became an Oscar-winning hit song for Day.

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A 1953 movie musical based on the famous gunslinger, ''Calamity Jane'' starred DorisDay Doris Day as the title character and Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok. One of the film's songs, "Secret Love", became an Oscar-winning hit song for Day.



The RealLife Calamity Jane was so-called because so many of her lovers ended up on Boot Hill. Remaining photos show she was also ugly as sin with some ''very'' masculine features, and didn't look like Doris Day at all.

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The RealLife Calamity Jane was so-called because so many of her lovers ended up on Boot Hill. Remaining photos show Additionally, she was also ugly as sin with some ''very'' masculine features, and didn't look like Doris Day at all.
all. In fact, photos of the time show she looked more like Howard Keel. No, really; Martha Jane Cannary had a very masculine build and face.

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A 1953 movie musical based on the famous gunslinger, ''Calamity Jane'' starred Doris Day as the title character and Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok. One of the film's songs, "Secret Love", became an Oscar-winning hit song for Day.

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A 1953 movie musical based on the famous gunslinger, ''Calamity Jane'' starred Doris Day DorisDay as the title character and Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok. One of the film's songs, "Secret Love", became an Oscar-winning hit song for Day.


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The RealLife Calamity Jane was so-called because so many of her lovers ended up on Boot Hill. Remaining photos show she was also ugly as sin with some ''very'' masculine features, and didn't look like Doris Day at all.
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* NoManOfWomanBorn: When Bill is forced to dress like a female Indian at the saloon, everyone laughs out loud. Angered, Bill pulls out a gun and warns he'll "put a bullet in the next man who laughs." Instant silence...except for Calamity, who keeps laughing hysterically.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: When Katie does a big talk on how she has to go no matter what and heads to pack, a baffled Jane turns to the camera.
--> '''Calamity''': I got me the strange feeling someone's getting hustled!
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* LadyLooksLikeADude: Due to her masculine appearance, Katie reacts this way upon first meeting Jane.

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* LadyLooksLikeADude: Due to her masculine appearance, Katie reacts this way upon first meeting Jane.initially mistakes Jane for a man.
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* BelligerentSexualTension: Jane and Bill have this.


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* LadyLooksLikeADude: Due to her masculine appearance, Katie reacts this way upon first meeting Jane.


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* SheCleansUpNicely: ''Everyone'' reacts this way to seeing Jane in a dress.
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A 1953 movie musical based on the famous gunslinger, ''Calamity Jane'' starred Doris Day as the title character and Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok. One of the film's songs, "Secret Love" became an Oscar-winning hit song for Day.

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A 1953 movie musical based on the famous gunslinger, ''Calamity Jane'' starred Doris Day as the title character and Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok. One of the film's songs, "Secret Love" Love", became an Oscar-winning hit song for Day.

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-->Wild Bill Hickock: She ain't very good lookin'.
-->Calamity Jane: That ain't all she ain't.

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-->Wild -->'''Wild Bill Hickock: Hickock:''' She ain't very good lookin'.
-->Calamity Jane: -->'''Calamity Jane:''' That ain't all she ain't.
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->"Excitement? Why, I got more arrows in the back of that coach than a porcupine has got stickers!"
-->'''Calamity Jane'''

A 1953 movie musical based on the famous gunslinger, ''Calamity Jane'' starred Doris Day as the title character and Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok. One of the film's songs, "Secret Love" became an Oscar-winning hit song for Day.

Calamity Jane comes to the town of Deadwood, South Dakota one day. She decides to revitalize the local saloon by bringing them Chicago star Adelaide Adams. Unfortunately, she instead brings them Adelaide's maid, Katie Brown, whom she found trying on her costumes. Katie becomes a hit with everyone, including Jane's secret love, Lt. Daniel Gilmartin. A rivalry for his affections with Katie ensues.

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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: The small-town theatre hall owner in Deadwood sarcastically says this when Calamity asks why he doesn't send for Adelaide Adams.
-->'''Calamity:''' Why don't you send for her?\\
'''Henry:''' ''Sure.'' Why don't I send for the Queen of Sheba?\\
'''Bill:''' Yeah.\\
'''Calamity:''' [[SarcasmBlind ...No good. They want Adelaide!]]
* BetaCouple: Katie and Danny.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Jane has a song about this in the ScreenToStageAdaptation.
* DraggedIntoDrag: Francis Fryer appears on stage as "Frances", but not willingly.
-->Wild Bill Hickock: She ain't very good lookin'.
-->Calamity Jane: That ain't all she ain't.
* LoveTriangle: Jane and Katie over Danny.
* TheSavageIndian: Jane brags about the many she has fought and killed.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Jane and Katie.
* WeddingsForEveryone: Katie and Danny, along with Jane and Bill.
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