Annie Oakley - Representations On Stage, Literature and Screen

Representations On Stage, Literature and Screen

• In 1935, Barbara Stanwyck played Oakley in a highly fictionalized film called Annie Oakley.
• The 1946 Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun is very loosely based on her life. The original stage production starred Ethel Merman, who also starred in the 1966 revival. A 1950 film version starred Betty Hutton. Some years after headlining the 1948 national tour, Mary Martin returned to the role for a 1957 NBC television special.
• From 1954 to 1956, Gail Davis played Oakley in the Annie Oakley television series.
• A highly-fictionalized Oakley appears in the 1966 comedy film Carry On Cowboy. This version of Oakley had a father who was sheriff of the fictitious Stodge City, and traveled out west to kill her father's murderer, and eventually fell in love with the inept Englishman, Marshal P. Knutt (Jim Dale). Oakley was played by Angela Douglas.
• In 1976, Geraldine Chaplin played Oakley in Buffalo Bill and the Indians with John Considine as Frank Butler.
• In 1982, Diane Civita played Oakley, opposite Richard Donner as Bill Cody, in an episode of Voyagers!, where, during Cody's performances for Queen Victoria, Oakley engaged in a marksmanship contest with a Russian duke.
• In 1982, the British rock band Squeeze released a song called "Annie Get Your Gun".
• In 1985, Jamie Lee Curtis portrayed her in the "Annie Oakley" episode of the children's video series Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends.
• In 1996, Reba McEntire portrayed Annie in Buffalo Girls alongside Anjelica Huston, Melanie Griffith and Tom Wopat.
• The 1996 novel The Green Mile by Stephen King references Annie Oakley by name when describing the shooting of William 'Wild Bill' Wharton by Percy Wetmore.
• In 1998, A Shooting Star: A Novel About Annie Oakley by Sheila Solomon Klass was republished.
• In 1999, Annie Get Your Gun was revived on Broadway with Bernadette Peters in the title role. Susan Lucci assumed the role when Peters took a vacation from the show, Cheryl Ladd assumed the role from Peters and was followed by Reba McEntire and Crystal Bernard.
• In 2004, Elizabeth Berridge played Annie Oakley in the Touchstone Pictures film Hidalgo.
• In 2006, an episode of PBS's American Experience documented Oakley's life.
• In 2008, Neil deGrasse Tyson focused on Oakley on an episode of his PBS show.
• In 2009, the band Watchout! There's Ghosts released a song called "Don't Shoot Me, Annie Oakley".
• In 2009, Murdoch Mysteries featured Oakley and Buffalo Bill touring Toronto.
• In 2010, The Geraghtys released a song titled "Annie Oakley", that references the famous sharpshooter.
• Between 2008 and 2010, it's been noted in the 39 Clues series universe that Annie Oakley was part of the Cahill branch, Tomas.