"Annie Get Your Gun" (1950)

Betty Hutton (as Annie Oakley) is quite the animated character. Trying not to read too much into it culturally speaking (backwoods culture, Native Americans, gender roles), but that's also kind of hard to ignore in this musical. Irving Berlin music with quite a few well-known tunes including "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better", "No Business Like Show Business" and "Doin' What Comes Nat'chur-ly". It's kind of like a transition piece--traces of the musical revue from the 30s, show business musicals from the 40s, but 50s humor (I guess that's what you'd call that element.). The intro to the DVD said that Judy Garland was originally supposed to star in it--they did 2 numbers with her, but then had to replace her. The intro also called Betty Hutton a well-known "comedian". Huh.