Day of the Triffids (1963) starring Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey
The Day of the Triffids is a famous science fiction horror tale. Triffids are tall, carnivorous, mobile plants capable of aggressive and seemingly intelligent behavior. They are able to move about by “walking” on their roots. Triffids appear to communicate with each other. And they have a deadly whip-like poisonous sting that enables them to kill their victims …. And feed on their rotting carcasses.
Show Boat (1951) starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner
Product description of Show Boat
One of the greatest Broadway musicals comes to the screen in this tale of music, racial bigotry and enduring love as outsized as the American heartland set aboard a Mississippi River Show Boat. Magnolia Brown has grown up onboard a sailing theater, plying the river from town to town to entertain people, and she has always dreamed of a life on stage. When the star’s, Julie LaVerne part African American ancestry is revealed and she is forced to leave, Magnolia steps in to take Julie’s place on stage.
Magnolia soon falls in love with her leading man, the handsome gambler and rogue, Gaylord Ravenal (Howard Keel—Kiss Me Kate, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), and the two marry, have a daughter and live happily–for a while. But Ravenal’s gambling debts force Magnolia to find a job, and Julie LaVerne again leaves her starring role–this time voluntarily–to give Magnolia the break she needs, an opportunity that leads to stardom.
Calamity Jane (1953), starring Doris Day, Howard Keel
Synopsis of Calamity Jane
Doris Day saddles up as wild West heroine Calamity Jane. She’s a tomboy gunslinger who leaves Arizona to go to Chicago to bring back a stage star to perform in a frontier saloon. She pines for an attractive soldier and swoons over rough-riding Wild Bill Hickock.
Howard Keel: My ma was seventeen the day that she and Pa got wed, When I was ten, gosh even then they were oh so nice, Now and again I sit beside them on their big old bed, And Ma and Pa are always full of good advice. For instance:
Song lyrics to Colonel Buffalo Bill song lyrics, written by Irving Berlin, performed in Annie Get Your Gun by Keenan Wynn, Benay Venuta, Howard Keel & Chorus
Annie Get Your Gun, starring Betty Hutton, Howard Keel
Synopsis of Annie Get Your Gun
Annie Get Your Gun stars Betty Hutton as backwoods sharpshooter Annie Oakley. Plucked out of obscurity by Buffalo Bill (Louis Calhern), the rough-edged Annie is groomed for a leading role in Bill’s world famous Wild West show. However, Annie has a rival in the form of rifleman Frank Butler (Howard Keel), a man she soon falls in love with.
