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For Immediate Release
What: “Betty”
The story & songs of Paramount’s #1 star in the ‘40s, Betty Hutton
Where: Part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival
When: June 17-27, 2010.
Web: www.hollywoodfringe.org for details and online ticket sales.
“Betty Hutton, it is perfectly clear, is the closest possible human approximation of a buzz bomb. – New York Post”
Betty who?
Miss Betty Hutton and her explosive songs took the screen by storm in the ‘40s and is most remembered as the lead in the film “Annie Get Your Gun”. Bob Hope said she was “A vitamin pill with legs.” She worked with all the greats and became Paramount Picture’s #1 star, even getting top billing over Fred Astair. She and Harpo Marx taught Lucille Ball comedy, she worked along side Cecile B. Demille and out-sold Judy Garland. But, like Judy, she fell down the same path of drugs and despair.
When the bottom fell out of her tu...
