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Secret Love, a popular song written in 1953 with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster was first performed by Doris Day in the film Calamity Jane that also starred Howard keel. It received an Academy Award for Best Original Song and Day recorded the best-selling record of the song, which reached #1 on both the Billboard and Cash Box charts in 1954.

Calamity Jane is a Wild West themed film musical released in 1953 devised by Warner Brothers in response to Annie Get Your Gun. It was loosely based on the life of the real Wild West heroine and explores an alleged romance between her and Wild Bill Hickok. The film starred Doris Day as the title character and Howard Keel as Hickok.

Secret Love won the Academy Award for Best Original and was also nominated for Scoring of a Musical Picture and Best Sound Recording.