Annie Get Your Gun is a fictionalized version of the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley (who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West) and her romance with sharpshooter Frank E. Butler. Dorothy Fields came up with the idea for the musical as a star vehicle for her friend, Ethel Merman. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II also liked the idea and decided to produce the show. Fields and her brother Herbert initially worked with Jerome Kern, but he collapsed and died 3 days into the project. Irving Berlin was persuaded to take over and wrote the score for the show. Interestingly, one of the
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