Annie Get Your Gun (musical) Show Business", "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly", "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun", "They Say It's Wonderful", and "Anything You Can Do." Dorothy Fields had the idea for a musical about Annie Oakley, to star her friend, Ethel Merman. Producer Mike Todd turned the project down, so Fields approached a new producing team, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. After the success of their first musical collaboration, "Oklahoma!", Rodgers and Hammerstein had decided to become producers of both their own theatrical ventures and those by other authors. They agreed to produce the musical and asked Jerome Kern to compose
The Wild Wild West shows such as "Rawhide", where each episode title began with "Incident at" or "Incident of," and "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", where episodes were titled "The (Blank) Affair." Robert Conrad starred as James West. Before "The Wild Wild West", Conrad played private eye Tom Lopaka in ABC's "Hawaiian Eye" for four seasons, 1959-63. Conrad claimed to be the 17th actor to test for the role of James West. (Rory Calhoun was initially announced for the part.) Conrad performed nearly all of his own stunts on "The Wild Wild West". "For the first few episodes we tried stuntmen," Conrad explained, "but the