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Annie Oakley (film)
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Annie Oakley is a 1935
biographical film
about the life of Annie Oakley
. It stars Barbara Stanwyck
and Preston Foster
.
), the "greatest shot in the whole world". Walker is very particular about what he eats, and the owner of the hotel bought Annie's quail because she is such a good shot, she shoots the quail clean through the head, leaving no buckshot.
At the banquet, Jeff Hogarth (Melvyn Douglas
) signs Walker to a contract making him part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. James MacIvor (Andy Clyde
), the hotel's owner, challenges Walker to a shooting contest to take place the next morning.
MacIvor had arranged for "Andy" Oakley to compete against Walker, only to be shocked when Annie shows up instead. He tries unsuccessfully to call the whole thing off. Before he knows who she is, Walker is rude to Annie and boasts at how he will beat Oakley. The scheduled match ends in a tie, so they proceed to sudden death - the next person to miss loses. The two sharpshooters continue hitting their targets. Annie and her mother (Margaret Armstrong) worry that Walker might lose his job if he were to lose to a mere woman, so Annie deliberately misses her next shot. Walker is a gracious, if unsuspecting winner. However, Hogarth knows exactly what Annie did.
When the Oakleys return home, Annie promises to pay back all those who bet on her. Hogarth follows and tells Annie that he never bet the money she gave to him. He also invites Annie to join the Wild West Show. Annie, having developed a crush on Walker, accepts. Hogarth introduces her to Buffalo Bill
(Moroni Olsen
) and the other members of the show.
When Walker overhears Buffalo Bill telling Hogarth that he might have to fire Annie because she lacks the showmanship to attract customers, he teaches her some 'fancy shootin' and tricks.
At the first show, Chief Sitting Bull
(Chief Thunderbird) is in the audience. Ned Buntline
(an uncredited Dick Elliott), Buffalo Bill's publicist, tries to sign him up for the show, but the chief is bored with the acts until he sees Annie shoot five targets thrown in the air. He is so impressed, he changes his mind and joins the show.
A romance blossoms between Annie and Walker, despite Hogarth's attempts to win Annie's affections for himself. They also become good friends with Sitting Bull.
One day, a man with a grudge tries to shoot Sitting Bull. Walker grabs the man's gun just as it goes off, saving his friend's life. However, his eyes are affected by the closeness of the shot.
While Annie's fortunes rise, Walker's decline. He hides his injury, but ends up shooting Annie in the hand as a result. He is dismissed from the show. However, Annie cannot forget him. After a triumphant tour of Europe, the show next plays New York
, Walker's home town. When Walker attends the show, Sitting Bull spots him and reunites the loving couple.
1935 in film
-Events:*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .*Seven year old Shirley Temple wins a special Academy Award.*The Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment started in order to educate the Bantu peoples.-Top grossing films:-Academy Awards:...
biographical film
Biographical film
A biographical film, or biopic , is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. They differ from films “based on a true story” or “historical films” in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a person’s life story or at least the most historically important years of their...
about the life of Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley , born Phoebe Ann Mosey, was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's amazing talent and timely rise to fame led to a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, which propelled her to become the first American female superstar.Oakley's most famous trick is perhaps...
. It stars Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress. She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra...
and Preston Foster
Preston Foster
Preston Foster was an American stage and film actor, and singer. Foster entered films in 1929 after appearing as a Broadway stage actor. He was appearing in Broadway plays as late as October 1931 when he acted in a play titled Two Seconds starring Edward J. Pawley...
.
Plot
In late 1800s Ohio, a backwoods gal, Annie Oakley delivers six dozen quail she has shot to the owner of the general store. He sends them to the MacIvor hotel in Cincinnati, where the mayor is holding a large banquet in honor of Toby Walker (Preston FosterPreston Foster
Preston Foster was an American stage and film actor, and singer. Foster entered films in 1929 after appearing as a Broadway stage actor. He was appearing in Broadway plays as late as October 1931 when he acted in a play titled Two Seconds starring Edward J. Pawley...
), the "greatest shot in the whole world". Walker is very particular about what he eats, and the owner of the hotel bought Annie's quail because she is such a good shot, she shoots the quail clean through the head, leaving no buckshot.
At the banquet, Jeff Hogarth (Melvyn Douglas
Melvyn Douglas
Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg , better known as Melvyn Douglas, was an American actor.Coming to prominence in the 1930s as a suave leading man , Douglas later transitioned into more mature and fatherly roles as in his Academy Award-winning performances in Hud...
) signs Walker to a contract making him part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. James MacIvor (Andy Clyde
Andy Clyde
Andy Clyde was a Scottish movie and TV actor whose career spanned more than four decades. He broke into silent films in 1925 as a Mack Sennett comic...
), the hotel's owner, challenges Walker to a shooting contest to take place the next morning.
MacIvor had arranged for "Andy" Oakley to compete against Walker, only to be shocked when Annie shows up instead. He tries unsuccessfully to call the whole thing off. Before he knows who she is, Walker is rude to Annie and boasts at how he will beat Oakley. The scheduled match ends in a tie, so they proceed to sudden death - the next person to miss loses. The two sharpshooters continue hitting their targets. Annie and her mother (Margaret Armstrong) worry that Walker might lose his job if he were to lose to a mere woman, so Annie deliberately misses her next shot. Walker is a gracious, if unsuspecting winner. However, Hogarth knows exactly what Annie did.
Buffalo Bill
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was a United States soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory , in LeClaire but lived several years in Canada before his family moved to the Kansas Territory. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872 for service to the US...
(Moroni Olsen
Moroni Olsen
Moroni Olsen was an American actor.-Biography:Olsen was born in Ogden, Utah to Mormon parents Edward Arenholt Olsen and Marsha Hoverholst who named him after the Moroni found in the Book of Mormon. Some sources have claimed that Olsen's birth name was John Willard Clawson, or even John Willard...
) and the other members of the show.
When Walker overhears Buffalo Bill telling Hogarth that he might have to fire Annie because she lacks the showmanship to attract customers, he teaches her some 'fancy shootin' and tricks.
At the first show, Chief Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull Sitting Bull Sitting Bull (Lakota: Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake (in Standard Lakota Orthography), also nicknamed Slon-he or "Slow"; (c. 1831 – December 15, 1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to United States government policies...
(Chief Thunderbird) is in the audience. Ned Buntline
Ned Buntline
Ned Buntline , was a pseudonym of Edward Zane Carroll Judson , an American publisher, journalist, writer and publicist best known for his dime novels and the Colt Buntline Special he is alleged to have commissioned from Colt's Manufacturing Company.-Naval and military experience:Edward Judson was...
(an uncredited Dick Elliott), Buffalo Bill's publicist, tries to sign him up for the show, but the chief is bored with the acts until he sees Annie shoot five targets thrown in the air. He is so impressed, he changes his mind and joins the show.
A romance blossoms between Annie and Walker, despite Hogarth's attempts to win Annie's affections for himself. They also become good friends with Sitting Bull.
One day, a man with a grudge tries to shoot Sitting Bull. Walker grabs the man's gun just as it goes off, saving his friend's life. However, his eyes are affected by the closeness of the shot.
While Annie's fortunes rise, Walker's decline. He hides his injury, but ends up shooting Annie in the hand as a result. He is dismissed from the show. However, Annie cannot forget him. After a triumphant tour of Europe, the show next plays New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Walker's home town. When Walker attends the show, Sitting Bull spots him and reunites the loving couple.
Cast
- Barbara StanwyckBarbara StanwyckBarbara Stanwyck was an American actress. She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra...
— Annie Oakley - Preston FosterPreston FosterPreston Foster was an American stage and film actor, and singer. Foster entered films in 1929 after appearing as a Broadway stage actor. He was appearing in Broadway plays as late as October 1931 when he acted in a play titled Two Seconds starring Edward J. Pawley...
— Toby Walker - Melvyn DouglasMelvyn DouglasMelvyn Edouard Hesselberg , better known as Melvyn Douglas, was an American actor.Coming to prominence in the 1930s as a suave leading man , Douglas later transitioned into more mature and fatherly roles as in his Academy Award-winning performances in Hud...
— Jeff Hogarth - Moroni OlsenMoroni OlsenMoroni Olsen was an American actor.-Biography:Olsen was born in Ogden, Utah to Mormon parents Edward Arenholt Olsen and Marsha Hoverholst who named him after the Moroni found in the Book of Mormon. Some sources have claimed that Olsen's birth name was John Willard Clawson, or even John Willard...
— Col. William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody - Pert KeltonPert KeltonPert Kelton was an American vaudeville, movie, radio and television actress. She was the first actress who played Alice Kramden in The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason and was a prominent comedic supporting film actress in the 1930s...
— Vera Delmar - Andy ClydeAndy ClydeAndy Clyde was a Scottish movie and TV actor whose career spanned more than four decades. He broke into silent films in 1925 as a Mack Sennett comic...
— James MacIvor - Chief Thunderbird — Sitting Bull (as Chief Thunder Bird)
- Margaret Armstrong — Mrs. Oakley
- Delmar WatsonDelmar WatsonDavid Delmar Watson was an American child actor and news photographer.-Biography:He was the son of actor, stuntman, and pioneer special effects artist Coy Watson Sr. They lived by Mack Sennett's studios in the old Edendale area of Los Angeles, California and Delmar attended Belmont High...
— Wesley Oakley - Adeline Craig — Susan Oakley