Her Calamity is clumsy, awkward, and vulnerable. She isn't a heroine but a troubled soul, desperate to be loved, telling tall tales and fibs, while trying to find her feet as a woman who is deeply uncomfortable with traditional notions of femininity.
Was Calamity Jane real?
Martha Jane Cannary (May 1, 1852 August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was a well-known American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and raconteur. In addition to many exploits she was known for being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok.
Is Calamity Jane based on a true story?
Calamity Jane is a 1953 musical-Western film from Warner Bros. starring Doris Day and Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok. The plot of the film is almost entirely fictional and bears little resemblance to the actual lives of the protagonists.
Did Calamity Jane marry?
Around 1885, she supposedly married a man named Burke (Edward or Clinton) and gave birth to a daughter in 1887. There are numerous accounts of her seen with a young girl in several small towns throughout the West in the 1880s and 1890s, but no marriage license or birth certificate exists.
Was Calamity Jane an outlaw?
They say well-behaved women rarely make history, and Martha Jane Cannary, aka Calamity Jane, was about as ill-behaved as any male outlaw of her day. In 1865, Martha Jane's father packed the family up in a wagon train and headed out to Virginia City, Montana. May 1, 2012