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Article: Culture: From wild punk to Doris Day; Toyah Willcox has had to master the bullwhip to play Calamity Jane, but she tells Terry Grimley why she draws the line at hard drinking.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2002
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Byline: Terry Grimley
With the title role in Calamity Jane, Toyah Willcox seems to have completed a remarkable 25-year career journey, from punk to Doris Day.
'It's probably what my mother wanted,' she laughs, when I put this thought to her.
'But I suppose this isn't quite Doris Day, because I think women have moved on so much since that film was made.
'It was written to celebrate the strength of women during the war: this was the film that said women are equal to men. It goes with the period immediately after the war, at a time when women ...