Betty Hutton

Betty Hutton

Born: February 26, 1921
Died: March 12, 2007
in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA
Betty Hutton (born Elizabeth June Thornburg) was a star American stage, film, and television actress, comedienne and singer.

Movies for Betty Hutton...

Private Screenings: Betty Hutton
Title: Private Screenings: Betty Hutton
Character: Self
Released: April 27, 2000
Type: Movie
Singer-comedian Betty Button shares stories from her career as one of Hollywood's top stars.
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That's Entertainment! III
Title: That's Entertainment! III
Character: (archive footage)
Released: July 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain.
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Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
Title: Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
Character: Self
Released: July 2, 1990
Type: Movie
Documentary about the life and work of film director Preston Sturges.
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Showbiz Goes to War
Title: Showbiz Goes to War
Character: (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 1982
Type: Movie
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. Comedian David Steinberg plays host for this star-studded, 90-minute documentary, which looks at the way Tinseltown helped the United States' war effort.
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The Hollywood Clowns
Title: The Hollywood Clowns
Character: (archive footage)
Released: March 23, 1979
Type: Movie
Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Title: That's Entertainment, Part II
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 16, 1976
Type: Movie
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
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Title: Baretta
Released: January 17, 1975
Type: TV
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.
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Title: The Hollywood Palace
Character: Self - Singer
Released: January 4, 1964
Type: TV
The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace, it began as a mid-season replacement for The Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood. A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl", who placed the names of the acts on a placard.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Rena Zito
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Title: Burke's Law
Character: Carlene Glory
Released: September 20, 1963
Type: TV
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
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Title: The Greatest Show on Earth
Released: September 17, 1963
Type: TV
Johnny Slate successfully manages his circus as it moves from town to town.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: Startime
Released: October 6, 1959
Type: TV
Startime is an anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety, and was one of the first American television shows broadcast in color. The program was aired Tuesday nights in the United States on the NBC Television network in the 1959-60 television season.
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Title: The Betty Hutton Show
Character: Goldie Appleby
Released: October 1, 1959
Type: TV
The Betty Hutton Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS's Thursday night schedule during the 1959-1960 season. The show was sponsored by General Foods' Post Cereals, and was produced by Desilu and Hutton Productions. The series, which was originally entitled Goldie, would retain its original title during its syndication run.
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Spring Reunion
Title: Spring Reunion
Character: Margaret 'Maggie' Brewster
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.
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Title: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.
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Jazz Ball
Title: Jazz Ball
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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Title: The Chevy Show
Character: Self
Released: October 4, 1955
Type: TV
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Molly McConnell
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Satins and Spurs
Title: Satins and Spurs
Character: Cindy Smathers
Released: September 12, 1954
Type: Movie
A rodeo performer at a show in Madison Square Garden falls for a handsome photographer who's been assigned to do a story on the show for Life Magazine.
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Somebody Loves Me
Title: Somebody Loves Me
Character: Blossom Seeley
Released: September 24, 1952
Type: Movie
Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship with vaudeville singer Benny Fields.
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The Greatest Show on Earth
Title: The Greatest Show on Earth
Character: Holly
Released: February 16, 1952
Type: Movie
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.
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Sailor Beware
Title: Sailor Beware
Character: Hetty Button (uncredited)
Released: February 8, 1952
Type: Movie
Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enlist before, but was always rejected. He keeps trying so that he can impress women. Melvin, is allergic to women's cosmetics and his doctor prescribed ocean travel, so he decided to join the navy.
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Let's Dance
Title: Let's Dance
Character: Kitty McNeil
Released: November 29, 1950
Type: Movie
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, her USO partner Donald Elwood, who agrees to help her fight for custody of the child.
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Annie Get Your Gun
Title: Annie Get Your Gun
Character: Annie Oakley
Released: May 17, 1950
Type: Movie
Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Red Hot and Blue
Title: Red Hot and Blue
Character: Eleanor Collier aka Yum-Yum
Released: September 5, 1949
Type: Movie
A Broadway director rescues a starlet from mobsters who blame her for a shooting.
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Dream Girl
Title: Dream Girl
Character: Georgina Allerton
Released: July 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A young woman spends much of her time fantasizing about what might be, but a realistic admirer tries to convince her to live the life she has.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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The Perils of Pauline
Title: The Perils of Pauline
Character: Pearl White
Released: July 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take
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Cross My Heart
Title: Cross My Heart
Character: Peggy Harper
Released: December 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.
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The Stork Club
Title: The Stork Club
Character: Judy Peabody
Released: December 28, 1945
Type: Movie
Director Hal Walker's 1945 musical comedy stars Betty Hutton as a hat-check girl at New York City's famous nightclub. The cast also includes Barry Fitzgerald, Don Defore, Andy Russell, Iria Adrian and Robert Benchley.
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Hollywood Victory Caravan
Title: Hollywood Victory Caravan
Character: Betty Hutton
Released: September 30, 1945
Type: Movie
A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.
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Duffy's Tavern
Title: Duffy's Tavern
Character: Betty Hutton
Released: September 28, 1945
Type: Movie
The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.
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Incendiary Blonde
Title: Incendiary Blonde
Character: Texas Guinan
Released: July 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
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Here Come the Waves
Title: Here Come the Waves
Character: Susan / Rosemary Allison
Released: December 18, 1944
Type: Movie
Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.
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Skirmish on the Home Front
Title: Skirmish on the Home Front
Character: Emily Average
Released: May 11, 1944
Type: Movie
Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization Plan.
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And the Angels Sing
Title: And the Angels Sing
Character: Bobby Angel
Released: April 25, 1944
Type: Movie
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall is playing.
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Title: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Character: Trudy Kockenlocker
Released: December 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can't remember.
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Let's Face It
Title: Let's Face It
Character: Winnie Potter
Released: August 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three customers of the "fat farm" scheme to get back at their philandering husbands by hiring the soldier and two of his buddies as "escorts" for the weekend. Complications ensue when the husbands show up unexpectedly.
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Happy Go Lucky
Title: Happy Go Lucky
Character: Bubbles Hennessy
Released: January 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo.
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Strictly G.I.
Title: Strictly G.I.
Character: Self - Guest Star
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A filmed broadcast of the Command Performance radio programs in which various Hollywood stars appeared and performed in accordance with letter requests from American service men stationed around the world. This entry (Army-Navy Screen Magazine No. 20) was broadcast and filmed at a live performance at Camp Roberts, California. Lana Turner, Betty Hutton, Judy Garland and Bob Hope star.
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Star Spangled Rhythm
Title: Star Spangled Rhythm
Character: Polly Judson
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
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The Fleet's In
Title: The Fleet's In
Character: Bessie Dale
Released: January 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are placed on his prowess with the ladies.
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One for the Book
Title: One for the Book
Character: Cinderella
Released: February 3, 1940
Type: Movie
In this entertaining short, famous literary figures step out of the pages of books after dark.
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Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra
Title: Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra
Character: Herself - Betty Hutton - Singer
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Tired of playing their theme song, “Nola,” ad nauseam, Vincent Lopez’s orchestra rebels. They perform a number of other tunes with vocalists including Betty Hutton (in one of her first screen appearances) and virtuoso whistler Fred Lowery.
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Public Jitterbug No. 1
Title: Public Jitterbug No. 1
Character: Betty
Released: May 9, 1938
Type: Movie
The government has set up a special agency to stamp out what it considers the number one public menace: the jitterbug. They aren't after the many followers, but the primary perpetrator of the jitterbug, who they've coined "Public Jitterbug No. 1". Hal Sturges is one of several agents working on the case who goes undercover as a dancer in Broadway haunts to find and capture Public Jitterbug No. 1. In his investigation, Hal runs across the beautiful Betty, a seemingly innocent bystander. Hal and Betty fall for each other. However Betty is unaware that Hal is a federal agent, and Hal is unaware that Betty is Public Jitterbug No. 1. Will their roles as agent and public menace number one take priority over their roles of man and woman?
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Nat King Cole & Friends Unforgettable Hits
Title: Nat King Cole & Friends Unforgettable Hits
Character: self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Some marvelous late-fifties memories of the one and only Nat King Cole. Singing (and occasionally playing) all-time Cole classics, like When I Fall In Love, The Christmas Song, Sweet Lorraine, and A Blossom Fell. Plus, there is a stellar list of other top tunes - including Stardust, Autumn Leaves, and Makin' Whoopee - each bearing his unmistakeable imprint. Nat, in solo performance, of course, but assisted, on occasion, by fellow greats like Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Torme, Peggy Lee - and even the legendary Jazz at the Philharmonic.