{"id":22118,"date":"2012-01-23T13:03:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T20:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=22118"},"modified":"2021-01-08T13:02:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T20:02:11","slug":"annie-oakley-1935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=22118","title":{"rendered":"Annie Oakley (1935)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I never knowed any woman could shoot good enough to join <em>this<\/em> outfit.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Poster-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Poster-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Poster-89x128.jpg 89w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Poster.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen touring in the Wild West Show run by Buffalo Bill (Moroni Olson), backwoods sharpshooter Annie Oakley (Barbara Stanwyck) and her performance partner (Preston Foster) fall in love while maintaining a facade of friendly rivalry.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barbara Stanwyck Films<\/li>\n<li>Biopics<\/li>\n<li>George Stevens Films<\/li>\n<li>Melvyn Douglas Films<\/li>\n<li>Preston Foster Films<\/li>\n<li>Romance<\/li>\n<li>Strong Females<\/li>\n<li>Westerns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary begins his review of director George Stevens&#8217; romantic biopic by noting that &#8220;Barbara Stanwyck is fine as a good-hearted, unpretentious backwoods girl who joins Buffalo Bill&#8217;s Wild West Show because of her love for Preston Foster, a rival sharpshooter&#8221;. He argues that the &#8220;most interesting and enlightening aspect of the film is that Foster, once full of conceit, is willing to accept that Stanwyck is the better shot&#8221;, and is ultimately &#8220;supportive of her rather than being jealous or competitive&#8221;; this slant to the storyline makes it more akin to <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=20285\"><em>A Star is Born<\/em><\/a> than to the musical it directly inspired, Irving Berlin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=21768\"><em>Annie Get Your Gun<\/em><\/a> (which posits Oakley and her love interest as perpetually at rivalrous odds with one another). Peary points out that <em>Annie Oakley<\/em> &#8220;looks dated and suffers considerably from the overuse of studio sets that give it [a] phony and claustrophobic feel&#8221;, but I wasn&#8217;t all that bothered by this, especially since the Wild West Show itself was very much a &#8220;staged&#8221; production, and there&#8217;s a sense of authenticity to its re-creation here. While it&#8217;s not must-see viewing, this one will surely be of interest to fans of Stanwyck, and is worth a one-time look by all film fanatics. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barbara Stanwyck as Annie Oakley<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Stanwyck.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Stanwyck.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Stanwyck.png 720w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Stanwyck-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Stanwyck-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Preston Foster as Toby Walker<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Foster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Foster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Foster.png 720w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Foster-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Foster-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>A fine recreation of the immensely popular Wild West Show<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Wild-West-Show.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Wild-West-Show.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Wild-West-Show.png 720w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Wild-West-Show-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Annie-Oakley-Wild-West-Show-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but it&#8217;s recommended for Stanwyck&#8217;s performance. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0026073\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1935\/12\/24\/archives\/the-screen-barbara-stanwyck-not-to-mention-chief-thunderbird-in.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s2383stan.html\">DVD Savant Review <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/1313\/annie-oakley#articles-reviews?articleId=975\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I never knowed any woman could shoot good enough to join this outfit.&#8221; Synopsis: When touring in the Wild West Show run by Buffalo Bill (Moroni Olson), backwoods sharpshooter Annie Oakley (Barbara Stanwyck) and her performance partner (Preston Foster) fall in love while maintaining a facade of friendly rivalry. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Barbara Stanwyck Films Biopics George Stevens Films Melvyn Douglas Films Preston Foster Films Romance Strong Females Westerns Response to Peary\u2019s Review: Peary begins his review of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=22118\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22118"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62306,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22118\/revisions\/62306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}