Annie Oakley (TV series) Don C. Harvey, five times. Approximately two dozen episodes lapsed into the public domain and are currently available on DVD in North America (including several releases issued through Davis's estate) and elsewhere, although a full-series release has yet to happen. On March 31, 2009, Mill Creek Entertainment released "Gun Justice Featuring The Lone Ranger", with other television Westerns such as "Annie Oakley". On July 11, 2014, it was announced that VCI Entertainment will release the complete series on DVD in Region 1 for the first time on October 21, 2014. A number of American comics were based on the TV
Annie Get Your Gun (film) at $1.5 million, with $600,000 paying for the score and the book. Betty Hutton, played Annie Oakley, with Howard Keel (making his American film debut) as Frank Butler and Benay Venuta as Dolly Tate. Louis Calhern played Buffalo Bill, replacing Frank Morgan, who died in 1949. Judy Garland, MGM's biggest musical comedy star, was originally cast as Annie Oakley. She recorded all her songs for the soundtrack and worked for two months under the direction of Busby Berkeley and dance director Robert Alton. Berkeley and Garland had worked together previously in the late 1930s and early 1940s in a successful