Annie Oakley (1935 film) man with a grudge tries to shoot Sitting Bull. Toby grabs the man's gun just as it goes off, saving his friend's life. However, his eyes are affected by the closeness of the shot. While Annie's fortunes rise, Toby's decline. He hides his injury, but ends up shooting Annie in the hand and is dismissed from the show. Much to Annie's heartbreak, Jeff and Wild Bill keep Toby away from her. However, during a chance meeting, a woman accompanying Toby tells Annie that she's been nothing but bad luck to him. Although Toby tries to stop the woman, Annie feels
Annie Oakley (1935 film) famous Thanksgiving Day shooting match so that Walker won't lose his job, a point that may have resonated with the film's Depression-era audiences. Oakley also spends much of the film pining away for Walker—they are separated while she tours in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show, but fortuitously reunited by Sitting Bull just in time for a happy ending. In this first Hollywood version of Oakley's life, the facts of the Butlers' long and happy marriage are pushed to the side, and Frank Butler's deliberate ceding of the spotlight to his wife is ignored. The film was released less than