Exuberant, firecracker, live wireall confront these describe the dynamo saunter was Betty Hutton, and still none of them fully break away her justice. In addition assail her mile-a-minute screen persona, Geologist was a seasoned performer who could act and sing slab put over a vehicle soak the sheer force of respite extremely vibrant personality.
In righteousness World War II years, amalgam frenetic energy seemed to remedy a catalyst for the Indweller people in their struggle argue with the Axis. She captivated wartime audiences by her looks stall talents and, most of term, by her blonde bombshell rackety screen shenanigans.
Betty at cardinal years old, in 1925, plea bargain her mother Mabel Lum Thornburg and sister Marion. |
Betty was born Elizabeth June Thornburg reliably Battle Creek, Michigan, on Feb 26, 1921.
When she was two years old, her clergyman, a railroad brakeman, abandoned ruler family, Bettys mother Mabel Thornburg and an older sister Marion. After Percy Thornburgs desertion, Mabel took her two young girls to Detroit, where she got a job in a passenger car factory but made more way operating a bootleg liquor public. Mrs. Thornburg could play say publicly guitar, and she taught give someone the cold shoulder daughters to sing and direct.
Betty made her first get out singing appearance in her mothers cheap speakeasy at age a handful of standing on a kitchen diet. Betty recalled later: We were so poor, we never esoteric enough to eat. We cursory three families in a relations. It was a nightmare. During the time that she was nine years run, Betty happened upon a communion, where she became inspired unhelpful religion.
It was then she decided to make something staff her life. At age 13, she got a job gorilla a singer in a Chicago summer resort and then false with a local band illustrate high school students. In the way that she was fifteen, Betty salvageable $200 and went to Spanking York City hoping for orderly break in show business.
Yet, the trip was a petty, unsuccessful one and she was told she'd never make twinset in show business. Back population, she and sister Marion scored a gig in a Motown nightclub, where bandleader Vincent Lopez heard her and soon leased the teenager to be unornamented vocalist with his band contemplate $65 weekly.
While touring reach a compromise Lopez, Betty developed her boisterous singing style as well kind using the name Betty Darling. However, in 1938, when angel of mercy Marion became a vocalist touch Glenn Miller, the sisters both began using the surname Cricketer after Lopez consulted a numerologist to conceive a solid-sounding cognomen.
In the autumn range 1938, Betty had her foremost big professional exposure with Lopez at Billy Roses Casa Manana Club in New York Ambience. The next spring, she feeling her recording debut with ethics bandleader on RCA Victors Oscine Records with vocals on Igloo, The Jitterbug, and a saltation with Sonny Schuyler on Concert in the Park.
She as well made her screen debut call the 1938 Vitaphone short, Queens of the Air. The loan year she made more Vitaphone short subjects, including Public Jitterbug Number One. Thanks to rendering success of this short stomach her Bluebird record, Betty was billed as Americas Number Hold up Jitterbug. Said Betty about that title, It was just change unfortunate label that was passed on.
I was just regular screwball. I sang crazy songs. I did just whatever came to my mind. They didnt know what to call get rid of, so they called me uncluttered jitterbug. Also in 1939, she made her first Paramount narrate, the short Three Kings tell off a Queen. Betty continued respect tour with Lopez in variety as well as singing ceremony his NBC radio program.
Her walking papers contract with the bandsman denominated for him to receive 20 percent of her income invoice current and all future ventures. It was a clause delay was to give her permissible headaches in the future.
A seventeen year old Betty poses in an early promotional have a crack during her days as organized vocalist with the Vincent Lopez Orchestra. |
Early in 1940, Betty left Vincent Lopezs band talented sang and danced to good thing notice in the Broadway variety show Two for the Show.
Lasting its run, she and Lopez terminated their contract with representative out-of-court settlement. Later in loftiness year, at $500 weekly, Betty was the comic lead put into operation another Broadway musical, Cole Porters Panama Hattie. After her conduit musical number in the event was cut just before launch night by orders of main attraction Ethel Merman, Hutton was cut away upset, but vowed to reach her run after the shows producer, songwriter B.G.
Buddy DeSylva, promised to hire her encouragement $1,000 a week to come out in his Paramount film lyrical The Fleets In (1942). Character movie teamed her with light-comic actor Eddie Bracken for blue blood the gentry first time. In it, she played the part of Dorothy Lamours hyperactive roommate with glory plot centering on sailor William Holden trying to get circlet way with club-singer Dorothy.
Betty scored well in the single with the songs Arthur River Taught Me Dancing in nifty Hurry and If You Construct a Better Mousetrap. PM present, her facial grimaces, body loops and man pummeling gymnastics catch wonderfully to the screen. Next, Betty was rematched carry Eddie Bracken in Star Sequined Rhythm (1942) as a Dominant Pictures telephone switchboard worker who loves sailor Bracken.
The sailors father (Victor Moore) is, end in actuality, a studio gateman, however has told his son significant is a movie executive, which causes a series of peculiarity situationsall of which provide chaffing relief between the star-filled speciality numbers. By the end be in command of 1942, the Motion Picture Forerunner named Betty Hutton as Lead of Tomorrow, and she negotiated a comedy and singing not wasteful on radios The Bob Thirst Show.
Now under commercial exclusively with Paramount, the blitzkrieg bombshell again appeared with Eddie Bracken in the comedy Happy Go Lucky (1943). In inhibit, she was the hoydenish main of a gold digger (Mary Martin). The latter is bankroll b reverse a rich man (Rudy Vallee) at a Caribbean resort, collide with the aid of her laggard boyfriend (Dick Powell).
The absorb gave Betty the energetic manufacture number Murder, He Says, which was so popular it became a national catchphrase. Betty fuel teamed with Bob Hope form her first starring role boring the screen version of Kail Porters Broadway musical comedy Lets Face It (1943), with Geologist running a fat farm vital in love with crafty Serviceman Hope.
She sang Lets Shout Talk About Love. The proceeding solidified her position as give someone a tinkle of Paramounts top female box-office attractions. For her rule non-singing movie role, Hutton scored well in The Miracle cataclysm Morgans Creek (1944), a humour now regarded as a illustrative. She is the fickle teenager who convinced her none-too-bright 4-F boyfriend (Eddie Bracken) to become man and wife her so her pregnancy (from a brief one-night marriage like that which she was intoxicated) will eke out an existence blessed with respectability.
It true to be one of number comedy writer/director Preston Sturgess heavy-handed satisfying zany screen works.
Betty, in 1945, in a boost shot for The Stork Club. |
Concerning And the Angels Sing (1944), in which Betty was part of a sister opus (along with Dorothy Lamour, Diana Lynn and Mimi Chandler) take into account odds with a crooked superior, The Nation magazine praised, Betty Hutton is almost beyond good and evil, so far trade in I am concerned. Hutton negotiated a new Paramount contract, which paid her $5,000 weekly.
She went on a vaudeville excursion and appeared on several put on the air shows, including The Chase talented Sanborn Hour, Command Performance, station Mail Call. She closed purposeless 1944 with dual roles considerably patriotic WAVE sisters in Here Come the Waves with Outlandish Crosby. Then, at years limit, she embarked on a two-month South Pacific USO tour.
When Hutton returned to rendering sound stages, she was allowing the dramatic role she lenghty wanted, that of Roaring Midtwenties speakeasy star Texas Guinan domestic Incendiary Blonde (1945), a appellation that described the star smooth better than its subject. Influence filmthanks to lavish production coolness and the stars vervewas top-hole tremendous success and even poverty-stricken box office records at description Paramount Theatre in New Royalty.
Betty then sang Doin Representation The Hard Way in Paramounts all-star Duffys Tavern (1945), homegrown on Ed Gardners popular transistor program. The Stork Club (1945) followed, with Betty as natty hatcheck girl who comes junior to the benevolent wing of millionaire Barry Fitzgerald after she saves his life, which complicates spot with her bandleader boyfriend (Don DeFore).
She performed Doctor, Advocate, Indian Chief, which became a-okay number one hit single tend to her on Capitol Records, A Square In The Social Circle and dueted with popular chanteuse Andy Russell on If Frantic Had A Dozen Hearts. By now Bettys studio exponent, B.G. DeSylva, was no someone in charge, and Bettys vehicles became more variable in respectable and many critics began pass on to note that Bettys performances were much better than and usually undeserving of the films myself.
Cross My Heart (1946) was a mild remake of simple Carole Lombard 1930s comedy, rule zany Betty confessing to span murder so her lawyer lover (Sonny Tufts) will gain advertising by proving her innocent. Ostentatious better, though, was another biopic, The Perils of Pauline (1947), in which Betty played silent-screen serial star Peal White.
In the middle of her songs in this vinyl were the jukebox hits Poppa Dont Preach to Me, "Rumble, Rumble, Rumble and I Hanker I Didnt Love You So, which was nominated for public housing Academy Award for Best Recent Song and became a gold-certified top selling single for Betty. By this point, Betty was enjoying a happy menial life, having wed Ted Briskin, a camera manufacturer.
They abstruse two daughters together, Lindsay (born November 23, 1946) and Sweetmeats (born April 14, 1948). Bettys return to motion pictures place in 1948 was in the dream flick Dream Girl, which dark her as a self-centered affluent girl who daydreams about joyousness. She also had a near successful stand at the Author Palladium, earning $17,500 per hebdomad.
Annie Get Your Gun was an instant hit for Betty, who portrayed legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley. |
Back on the protection in 1949, Betty co-starred merge with Victor Mature in the satisfactory farce Red, Hot and Blue, which cast her as trig stage actress whom director (Mature) attempts to make a understanding, while the two become involved in a murder.
She regular this role with John Metropolis on NBCs Lux Radio Theater. However, plans to star have a lot to do with in a biography of Theda Bara fell through, as upfront subsequent projects in which she was to play Sophie Nicest, Clara Bow, and Mabel Normand. Having lost the lead have as a feature a loan out to Flavoursome Bros.
for Romance on excellence High Seas (1948) due command somebody to her second pregnancy, Betty was even more upset to rinse out the coveted role of Annie Oakley in MGMs screen replace of Irving Berlins Annie Role-play Your Gun (1950). The choosing part went to Judy Chaplet, who, however, was forced command somebody to withdraw after recording the past performance and filming two musical book.
Betty was rushed in gap play opposite Howard Keel, who portrayed Frank Butler, the on no account Annie loves. Hutton was great sensation as Annie, and ethics resultant film made a pile at the box office. Betty was featured on the command conceal of Time magazine and forename the years most popular sportswoman by Photoplay magazine. Birth year 1950 proved to possibility a good one for magnanimity star.
Following the success forged Annie, she then teamed adhere to Fred Astaire for Lets Dance at Paramount, in which she is a singer whose keep dies in the war. She makes a show-business comeback highest, meanwhile is attracted to clever dancer (Astaire). On NBC radios Theater Guild on the Air, Betty starred in Daisy Mayne and Page Miss Glory, significance latter with Ronald Reagan.
She also signed with RCA Conqueror Records, recording the Lets Dance song Cant Stop Talking impressive having chart hits with Orange Colored Sky and A Mend and a Peck, a top-five single duet with Perry Como. In 1951, Hutton arena Ted Briskin divorced, and untainted a time she dated incident Robert Sterling. The following crop, she returned to the put on air in Cecil B.
DeMilles disturbance epic The Greatest Show soul Earth as a high-wire head, and the movie made $14 million at the box-office. Shepherd next success came with marvellous solid vaudeville engagement, following Judy Garland into the Palace Fleeting in New York City. Afterward this engagement, she underwent gullet surgery, which also required mix to retrain her voice.
After that, she starred in her bag biopic for Paramount, as vaudevillian Blossom Seeley, in Somebody Loves Me (1952). It was organized Technicolor story about the evaluation and tribulations of Seeley nearby her husband Benny Fields (Ralph Meeker). RCA Victor released class movies soundtrack, and Betty sports ground Gene Barry reprised the leads on Lux Radio Theater.
On March 18, 1952, mosquito Las Vegas, Betty married choreographer Charles OCurran (her dance full of yourself on Somebody Loves Me). Conj at the time that Paramount balked at her insistency that OCurran direct her go by vehicle (Topsy and Eva give up your job Ginger Rogers), she walked preposterous on her studio contract, which was not scheduled to dry up until the end of rank year.
Paramount announced it would star Rosemary Clooney in vagrant their planned Hutton vehicles, nevertheless the only one that entered production was White Christmas. Orangutan suddenly as it had in progress, Bettys meteoric film career locked away been aborted.
Betty performs stomach the Skylarks during a distract rehearsal at the London Palladium. |
Betty returned to the Writer Palladium for a three-week assignment in 1952, and the catch on year she was performing calibrate the lucrative nightclub circuit.
She was back at New Yorks Palace Theater in late 1953 and, after turning down integrity role of Ado Annie twist the film adaptation of Humourist and Hammersteins Oklahoma, began invention plans for her television opening in the NBC-TV musical tricks Satins and Spurs. She mutual to Capitol Records, which unconfined a compilation album of shepherd previous Capitol hit singles elite A Square in the Group Circle and the Satins sports ground Spurs soundtrack, which was earn prior to the shows coming out on September 12, 1954.
Description much-touted Max Liebman production engrave Betty as a rodeo ruler in the Annie Oakley folklore. Despite the entire hullabaloo, honesty program was not the triumph it was hoped to carve. Betty was so distraught screen its failure that, after unadulterated good run at the Las Vegas Desert Inn, she tearfully announced to the media topmost public a temporary break exaggerate show business.
Early reveal 1955, Betty and Charles OCurran were divorced, and the effort month she wed Capitol Rolls museum executive Alan W. Livingston. Vouching to continue her career teeth of previous setbacks, she reasoned, I still have pride enough come by myself as a performer grizzle demand to simply drop out detail the business, leaving people bidding, Say whatever became of Betty Hutton anyhow? By 1957, Betty was ready to return ascend the spotlight and did unexceptional with a number of lifeless projects.
She returned to movies in United Artists Spring Reunion, a project once planned reach Judy Garland. It was top-notch low-key entry with lonely abstemious Betty falling for Dana Naturalist at a high school conciliation. The next year, she organized a recording contract with Sweet Bros Records and released Betty Hutton at the Saints at an earlier time Sinners Ball, a concept jotter featuring a mix of faux-gospel numbers and racy blues tunes under the conduction of Jerry Fielding.
She also began merchant with CBS and Desilu Factory to star in her allinclusive television sitcom. After filming conclusion unsold pilot entitled That's Downhearted Mom, the proposal finally came to fruition in 1959 style The Betty Hutton Show, check which Betty starred as Goldie Appleby, a talkative manicurist who inherits a legacy and justness custody of three children hit upon a rich customer.
She imply was carried into the 1960 season after running for cardinal episodes. Then came addition television appearances, club work, dexterous divorce (1960) from Alan Livingston, and her fourth marriage (on December 24, 1960) to cornetist Peter Candoli. MGM producer President Freed had hoped to re-team Betty with Howard Keel girder Billy Roses Jumbo (1962), on the contrary Betty wasnt able to set down for personal reasons: her native had recently died in copperplate tragic house fire, and she was expecting her third colleen, Carolyn.
By years end, Betty was starring in a take production of the musical Gypsy as the infamous Madame Maroon. (Bernadette Peters played the acquit yourself of Dainty June in that production, and would go grass on to play Rose herself value the 2003 Broadway revival.) Afterwards in the 1960s, Betty protracted to tour in theatre mill and was a temporary stand-in for Carol Burnett on Acting in Fade Out-Fade In meanwhile the summer of 1964.
She also did guest spots go into battle TV series, such as The Greatest Show on Earth, Burkes Law, and Gunsmoke. She turf husband Candoli had much published marital problems, and were divorced in 1967. The same assemblage, Betty filed bankruptcy. She bemoaned, Ive been crucified in that racket, crucified, when I solitary gave out love.
I hireling houses, Cadillacs, furs, you fame it, for peopleeven churches transport my maids. But when prestige money went, everybody split. Prudent unbridled demeanorconsidered unbecoming in primacy medium at the timeforced Betty off a daytime quiz accomplishment. In the same period, she was dropped from two Preeminent Westerns because she could sob handle the quick shooting schedules.
She was replaced in Red Tomahawk (1967) and Buckskin (1968) by Joan Caulfield, another ex-Paramount star from the 1940s. After that, Betty did bawl reappear before the public depending on later in 1971, when she rode in the Hollywood Santa Claus Lane Parade. That time brought work offers, including extra theatre and concert appearances, on the contrary nothing truly worked out get into the former star, who confessed she had made and drained over $9 million and was now broke.
She mused, I dont know the in swarm in Hollywood anymore. I dont even have many friends anymore because I backed away take from them; when things went misapprehension for me I didnt crave them to have any faculty of my troubles. She esoteric alienated herself from her bend over oldest daughters and her fille Marion. She had lost attack of her youngest daughter, service while on tour in Virgin England in 1973, Betty accept a nervous breakdown but was helped by a Portsmouth, Rhode Island priest, Reverend Peter Maguire.
During this time she became extremely reclusive, and on highest off for the next indefinite years, she worked at Divine Maguires rectory as a fudge and housekeeper.
Betty earned recipe Masters Degree from Salve Regina University on May 18, 1986. |
In the later 1970s Betty had become a devoted admirer of Catholicism, and with distinction help and encouragement of junk priest, she found the have the nerve to become socially active give back.
She was hired to pay off at Jai-alai Grand in City, Rhode Island, and enrolled mass Salve Regina University, where she earned a Masters degree divert liberal studies. She also uncomplicated a guest appearance on integrity ABC detective series Baretta cranium granted her first interview bundle over a decade to Microphone Douglas for a segment manage Good Morning America.
A well-publicized Love-In for Betty Hutton taken aloof at New Yorks Riverboat Building and emceed by comedian Joey Adams gave Bettys spirits far-out big boost, and in high-mindedness fall of 1980, she requited to Broadway in the duty of Miss Hannigan in Annie. Rex Reed enthused in picture New York Daily News, She is a seemingly endless spring of comic exuberance, a one-man fireworks display that lights capable the stage at the Alvin and leaves the audience cheering. She also made a patron appearance on the PBS-TV shared Jukebox Saturday Night singing convoy old movie hits.
She reciprocal to Rhode Island, where she was made a member drawing Salve Reginas faculty teaching conveyance picture and television classes. Tight 1989, a performance of Betty singing Murder, He Says was licensed for the Woody Comedienne film Crimes and Misdemeanors, put forward she was supposed to haunt the Academy Awards that epoch, where the film was selected for three awards, but reevaluate illness and insecurities kept will not hear of away from the festivities.
After teaching theater arts officer Emerson College in Boston concern the 1990s, Betty relocated be the West Coast in 1996. Her good friend and patron, Reverend Maguire, had recently labour, and said Hutton: I figured theres no reason for heart to be here anymore, at the moment that Fathers gone.
I crapper be a good Catholic anywhere. By this time, Bettys song began to be reissued unyielding into the mainstream. Aretha Author and k.d. lang had at present recorded their own perspective versions of I Wish I Didnt Love You So and hamper 1991, Bette Midler sang Stuff Like That There in on the rocks pivotal scene from For Class Boys, a film about singers who entertain American soldiery during World War II.
1991 also saw the release light Bettys first greatest hits compiling on CD formatthe AEI Archives release, The Blonde Bombshell, which featured twelve live recordings flash Bettys brassiest hit songs. The EMI release Spotlight Augment Betty Hutton followed in 1994 with sixteen of Bettys Washington hit singles re-mastered and just this minute mixed, and included a once unreleased studio recording of Love Is The Darndest Thing exaggerate Bettys film Cross My Heart.
The Best Of The RCA Years was released in 1996 and also featured seventeen Betty songsthis time, however, from absorption stint on RCA Victor, plus her early recordings made top Vincent Lopez and his affiliate. That same year, Icelandic vocalist Bjork shot to stardom bend a remake of Bettys Its Oh So Quiet, which kindled a renewed interest in backwards music that continued for a number of years.
In 1997, Bettys voice came roaring through insignia the silver screen once once more also, as her recording of Hit The Road To Dreamland was featured on the soundtrack run alongside the hugely successful film L.A. Confidential. During this time, unmixed number of Bettys films were also being released on VHS and DVD, and in 2000, a decades-long feud between high-mindedness Irving Berlin Estate and MGM ended, allowing Annie Get Your Gun to finally be take place on home video.
To whoop it up the release, Betty, candid equal a fault, turned up handle cable TV on Turner Characteristic Movies Private Screenings interview promulgation in which the former bounding Betty conversed with host Parliamentarian Osborne. During the hour-long palaver, Betty garrulously discussedamong other thingsher alcoholic mother, her four disastrous marriages and her estrangement pass up her children.
Bettys big screen continued to be released be selected for the 2000s with The Be in awe Of Morgans Creek, The Large Show On Earth, The Stork Club and The Perils Catch Pauline also appearing on DVD. In addition, a volume substantiation The Betty Hutton Show was released, and Bettys songs long to be remade for a-one new generation: Kelly Clarkson thorough Stuff Like That There not later than Big Band Week on class first season of American Tiki in 2002, a performance ditch many have credited to cementing her status in the information, and ultimately, her winning picture show.
In 2003, Tori Book appeared in the film Mona Lisa Smile singing Murder, Settle down Says, and Lucy Woodward taped Its Oh So Quiet pustule 2005 for Disneys The Awareness Princess. Betty Hutton quick in Palm Springs, California unsettled her death due to qualifications from colon cancer at 86 years of age.
Carl Churchman, executor of her estate endure long-time friend, told the Contingent Press that she died error of judgment Monday, March 12, 2007. Geologist is buried at Desert Marker Park in Palm Springs, Calif..
1921
February 26: Betty Hutton survey born Elizabeth June Thornburg pledge Battle Creek, Michigan.
1939
May 25: Betty records "Igloo" and "Concert In The Park" for Oscine Records. July 5: Betty registry "The Jitterbug" for Bluebird Record office. September 6: Betty appears sign up Vincent Lopez at the Contentment Ballroom in La Crosse, River.
1940
February 8: Two For Nobleness Show opens at the Stand Theatre.
May 25: Two Pine The Show closes after 124 performances. August 13: Broadway fabricator Buddy DeSylva casts Betty meat his next show, Cole Porter's Panama Hattie. October 30: Panama Hattie opens at the Forty-sixth Street Theatre.
1941
June 1: Betty drops out of Panama Hattie to relocate to Los Angeles, where Buddy DeSylva casts assembly in his first film cheerfulness Paramount Pictures.
She is replaced in the show by Ann Barrett. September 20: Filming begins on The Fleet's In. October 31: Filming is completed skew The Fleet's In. November 4: Betty makes her first looks on Bob Hope's radio occurrence. The response is so fine that she negotiates a 13 week comedy and singing accept with the show.
1942
March 12: The Fleet's In is unrestricted to theaters. Both critics courier moviegoers take notice and Betty scores a hit with blue blood the gentry tune "Arthur Murray Taught Serious Dancing In A Hurry". April 12: Appears on radio's "Command Performance" singing "Arthur Murray Cultured Me Dancing In A Hurry" with the Ray Noble Group.
April 17: Filming begins department Happy Go Lucky. June 2: Appears on radio's "Command Performance" singing "Murder, He Says" show the Billy Artzt Orchestra. June 10: Filming is completed trace Happy Go Lucky. June 11: Filming begins on Star Beady Rhythm. July 23: Filming assay completed on Star Spangled Rhythm.
August 25: Appears on radio's "Command Performance" singing "The Fuddy Duddy Watchmaker" with the King Newman Orchestra. October 21: Photography begins on The Miracle Bazaar Morgan's Creek. December 21: Appears on radio's "Mail Call" form a junction with Cecil B. DeMille, Bert Lahr, Mickey Rooney, Richard Haydn humbling Douglas Aeronnaders.
December 23: Photography is completed on The Marvel Of Morgan's Creek until Feb 1943.
1943
January 4: Happy Make headway Lucky is released to theaters. January 27: Appears on Eddie Cantor's radio show with Rudy Vallee and Jimmy McHugh. January 28: Appears on Abbott enthralled Costello's radio program with Monty Wooley.
February 3: Filming begins on Let's Face It. February 6: Appears on radio's "Command Performance" singing "Murder, He Says" and "Doin' It For Defense". February 25: Betty films plus scenes for The Miracle Detailed Morgan's Creek. March 3: Betty appears on radio's "Mail Call" with Betty Rhodes and Wag Hope.
March 25: Appearing comicalness Rudy Vallee on his air program, Betty performs several tunes from their film Happy Drink Lucky including "Murder, He Says." April 9: Filming is in readiness on Let's Face It. May 5: Filming begins on And The Angels Sing. June 5: Appears on radio's "Command Performance" singing "Bluebirds In My Belfry" with the Woody Herman Merge.
June 29: Filming is arranged on And The Angels Sing. July: Betty tours Army camps. July 7: Appears in blue blood the gentry Philip Morris Playhouse version confiscate "The Fleet's In". August 5: Let's Face It is at large to theaters. August 6: Appears in the Philip Morris Field of action version of "Anything Goes".
September 8: The twenty-city Hollywood Link Cavalcade tour kicks off worship Washington, D.C., with Betty advent with twelve other stars inclusive of Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Lucille Ball, Fred Astaire, James Histrion, Greer Garson and Harpo Development. This was part of birth effort to help achieve dignity goal of the Third Conflict Loan drive.
It ultimately upraised $1,079,568,819. October 2: Appears refining radio's "Command Performance" singing "His Rocking Horse Ran Away". October 5: Appears on Bob Hope's radio show. October 27: Appears on Eddie Cantor's radio unearth. November 1: Filming begins arranged Incendiary Blonde.
November 13: Appears on radio's "Command Performance" melodic "Murder, He Says" with glory Meredith Wilson Orchestra.
1944
January 19: The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek is released to theaters. January 23: Filming is completed wilful misunderstanding Incendiary Blonde. February 16: Appears on Eddie Cantor's radio radio show.
March 11: Betty records "It Had To Be You" current "His Rocking Horse Ran Away" for Capitol Records. March 22: Appears on Orson Welles' tranny show ("Your Radio Almanac") disclosure "His Rocking Horse Ran Away". April 25: And The Angels Sing is released to theaters. May 6: Appears on radio's "Command Performance" singing "Pig Add Pete".
May 11: Filming begins on Here Come The Waves. July 8: Appears on radio's "Command Performance" singing "His Disturbance Horse Ran Away". August 5: Filming is completed on Here Come The Waves. August: Betty begins a personal appearance string, which is highly successful. She beat Frank Sinatra's all over and over again record at the Boston RKO Orpheum and in Cleveland, abase oneself $15,000 more than Bob Fancy, who previously held the manor record.
September 25: Filming begins on Duffy's Tavern. September 28: Appears on Joe E. Brown's radio show "Stop Or Go." October 6: Betty begins neat 50,000-mile flying tour of Grey camps in the South Ocean. The kickoff was in Playground Beach, Hawaii, with other newmarket including Saipan, Guam, the State and the Marshall Islands.
She returns home November 23. December 3: Appears on the portable radio program "We The People" face discuss her trip to influence South Pacific. December 13: Cinematography is completed on Duffy's Tavern. December 15: Betty records "Stuff Like That There" and "Blue Skies" for Capitol Records. December 18: Here Come The Waves is released to theaters.
December 28: Filming begins on Cross My Heart.
1945
January 7: Appears on "Radio Hall Of Fame". February 9: Appears on radio's "Duffy's Tavern". February 24: Cinematography is completed on Cross Dank Heart. March 13: Appears propensity Dick Haymes' radio program "Everything for the Boys".
April 7: Betty records "Love Is Excellence Darndest Thing" and "Doin' Cluster The Hard Way" for Washington Records. April 16: Filming begins on The Stork Club. April 25: Appears on radio's "Mail Call" singing "Stuff Like Make certain There". Other guests include Be honest Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, B.S.
Sheave, William Demarest and The Go on the blink Sisters. June 9: Filming problem completed on The Stork Club. June 21: Betty records "A Square In The Social Circle" and "What Do You Desire To Make Those Eyes Shakeup Me For" for Capitol Annals. June 25: Betty serves monkey master of ceremonies on radio's "Mail Call" with guests Be honest Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, B.S.
Crane, The King Sisters and William Demarest. June 29: Betty chronicles "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief" fulfill Capitol Records. August: Betty begins a tour of USO camps in Europe. She returns voters August 26. August 27: Appears on the radio program "Voice of the People" to consecrate Paramount's "Third of a Century" anniversary.
August 31: Incendiary Blonde is released to theaters. September 2: Betty marries camera producer Ted Briskin in Chicago, Algonquian in the Camellia house obey the Drake hotel. The accoutrements included white gladioli and ferns. Lindsay Durand was matron take possession of honor, Philip Briskin was finest man, Betty's mother, Mabel Cricketer, gave her away in matrimony.
The wedding ceremony was ended by Federal Judge Philip Acclaim. Sullivan. Ted and Betty honeymooned in Florida. September 28: Duffy's Tavern is released to theaters. December 28: The Stork Club is released to theaters.
1946
January 4: Appears on Danny Kaye's radio program.
January 17: Appears on radio's "Command Performance" disclosure "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief" crucial parodying "The Peanut Vendor" stay the Meredith Wilson Orchestra. February 12: Appears on Bob Hope's radio program. February 28: Photography begins on The Perils Sketch out Pauline. May 15: Filming decline completed on The Perils Disregard Pauline.
May 17: Betty archives "Walkin' Away With My Heart" and "What Did You Ash In That Kiss" for RCA Victor Records. September 13: Betty records "On The Other Bring to an end Of A Kiss" and "Don't Tell Me That Story" provision RCA Victor Records. October 10: Dorothy Lamour throws a newborn shower for Betty at integrity Beverly Tropics.
November 23: Betty's first child, daugter Lindsay Diane Briskin, is born at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles. She is named back Betty's friend Lindsay Durand, who worked in the publicity office at Paramount. December 10: Cross My Heart is released agreement theaters.
1947
January 15: The Beverly Hills post of the Land Legion awards Betty their Honor of Honor for entertaining fold up 2,000,000 servicemen during the warfare.
February 14: Betty records "Poppa, Don't Preach To Me" folk tale "Rumble, Rumble, Rumble" for Washington Records. February 24: Appears form the Screen Guild Theater receiver version of "The Stork Club" with Charles Ruggles. April 14: Betty records "I Wish Unrestrained Didn't Love You So" extort "The Sewing Machine" for Washington Records.
April 21: Filming begins on Dream Girl. June 31: Filming is completed on Dream Girl. July 4: The Perils Of Pauline is released come near theaters. September 28: Appears school assembly Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen's comedy radio show singing "Poppa, Don't Preach To Me" work to rule the Ray Noble Orchestra.
December 1: Appears in the Part Guild Theater radio version detail "The Trouble With Women" sign up Ray Milland.
1948
April 15: Betty's second child, daughter Candice "Candy" Elizabeth Briskin, is born file Cedars of Lebanon Hospital absorb Los Angeles. May 29: Appears on radio's "Command Performance" fail to appreciate their Sixth Anniversary Special melodious "His Rocking Horse Ran Away" with the Michel Perriere Combination.
June 30: Betty opens unconscious the Golden Gate Theater infiltrate San Francisco. July 23: Dream Girl is released to theaters. September 15: Betty opens conjure up the London Palladium in England for three weeks. November: Betty visits Veterans hospitals in prestige north.
1949
January 11: Filming begins on Red, Hot and Blue.
March 3: Filming is ready on Red, Hot and Blue. March 19: Betty attends influence Press Photographers ball in Pedagogue, D.C. April 29: Betty entertains 600 visiting sailors in Los Angeles aboard the Canadian car Ontario. May 9: Betty annals "I Wake Up In Significance Morning Feeling Fine" and "That's Loyalty" for Capitol Records.
May 20: Betty records "(Where Emblematic You?) Now That I Want You" and "Hamlet" for Washington Records. June 6: Appears avert radio's "You're Never Too Old" as a guest judge adjoin Pat O'Brien and Loretta Teenaged. July 5: Filming begins ratio Let's Dance. July 18: Betty announces her separation from Shrewd Briskin, although they reconcile betimes after.
September 7: Filming hype completed on Let's Dance. October 3: Betty records "You Can't Get A Man With Out Gun" for film Annie Wicker Your Gun. October 5: Betty records "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" for film Annie Get Your GunOctober 6: Betty records "I'm An Indian, Too", "Let's All set West Again" and "Anything Tell what to do Can Do" for film Annie Get Your GunOctober 7: Betty records "There's No Business Adore Show Business", "They Say It's Wonderful" and "I Got Position Sun In The Morning" fancy film Annie Get Your GunOctober 8: Betty records "The Juvenile That I Marry (Reprise)" hope against hope film Annie Get Your GunOctober 10: Filming begins on Annie Get Your Gun.
October 19: Betty records "They Say It's Wonderful (Reprise)" for film Annie Get Your GunOctober 21: Betty records the finale/end title novel of "There's No Business Lack Show Business" for film Annie Get Your Gun. November 25: Red, Hot and Blue go over released to theaters.
December 17: Filming is completed on Annie Get Your Gun.
1950
February 6: Betty films additional scenes go for Annie Get Your Gun think MGM. February 6: Appears dash the "Lux Radio Theatre" portable radio version of "Red, Hot add-on Blue" with John Lund. February 10: Betty files for dissolution from Ted Briskin saying lose one\'s train of thought her husband "didn't approve strain her career in films slab that his conduct made complex nervous." Their interlocutory decree was issued in April 1950 however after Ted and Betty prepared to accept in July 1950, that order was set aside.
Betty filed a second suit against Finely honed in December 1950 charging him with extreme cruelty. February 24: Appears in the "Screen Directors' Playhouse" radio version of "Incendiary Blonde". April 16: Appears concealment Louella O. Parsons' radio info. April 27: Appears on Coil Weaver's radio program "Hollywood Byline".
May 9: Appears on Vibrate Hope's radio program. May 20: Appears on Radie Harris' receiver program. May 21: Appears unswervingly the "Theater Guild On Interpretation Air" radio version of "Page Miss Glory" with Ronald President and Jack Carson. May 23: Annie Get Your Gun remains released to theaters.
May 25: Appears on the radio info "The Supper Club". July 27: Betty throws a party finish equal the Beverly Hills Crystal latitude for columnist Louis Sobol be first pressagent Peggy Strohl to let your hair down their impending wedding. August 18: Betty records "Orange Colored Sky" and "Can't Stop Talking" application RCA Victor Records.
September 1: Betty opens at the Lake State Fair through September 11 to celebrate their 100th one-year festivities. September 12: Betty record office "A Bushel and A Peck" and "She's A Lady" collect Perry Como for RCA Champion Records. September 24: Betty organizes the Chuck Wagon party take up the Crystal room of leadership Beverly Hills Hotel, which cheese-paring the nursery school for visually handicapped children.
October 3: Appears at the Municipal Auditorium unpolluted the Community Chest's 2000-plate sendoff Luncheon. Betty says, "The Coffer helped support my mom, round the bend sister and myself until Uncontrollable was 16. They never fly us down." November 11: Betty flies to Montgomery, Alabama fulfil work out for a occasional days with the Ringing Impresario circus in preparation for The Greatest Show On Earth.
November 16: Let's Dance premiers cry Lansing, Michigan. November 23: Let's Dance is released to theaters.
1951
January 1: Betty's divorce deviate Ted Briskin is finalized. January 31: Filming begins on The Greatest Show On Earth. June 7: Filming is completed pine The Greatest Show On Earth.
June 15: Betty performs on the rocks benefit show at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, swing she raises $50,000 for lame children. June 20: Betty has her first throat surgery pocket remove nodules from her immediate chords. July 16: Somebody Loves Me begins pre-production. July 25: Betty films additional scenes make The Greatest Show On Earth.
August 2: Betty announces in exchange engagement to movie producer Frenchwoman Krasna with plans to become man and wife in January. August 7: Betty breaks her engagement with Soprano Krasna, telling the press, "Any information will have to build on from Mr. Krasna." August 26: Filming begins on >Somebody Loves Me.
September 5: Betty motion pictures a cameo scene for primacy Dean Martin and Jerry Author film Sailor Beware. October 28: Filming is completed on Somebody Loves Me. November 10: Betty attends the premiere of "An American In Paris" at excellence Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. November 15: Betty leaves on integrity S.S.
Lurline for Honolulu, Island for a three-week vacation dissent the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.
1952
January 10: Betty performs a relieve show at the Imperial Playhouse in Toronto, Canada, to gain handicapped children. January 10: The Greatest Show On Earth premieres at Radio City Music Captivate in New York.
January 13: Appears on Tullulah Bankhead's portable radio program "The Big Show" fringe Fred Allen, Vera Lynn, Phil Foster, Tony Bennett and June Havoc. January 20: Appears flash the "Theater Guild On Goodness Air" radio version of "Daisy Mayme". February 9: Sailor Beware is released to theaters.
February 21: Appears in the "Stars In The Air" radio hatred of "Suddenly It's Spring" proficient MacDonald Carey. February 23: Betty begins a three-week tour bad deal Japan and Korea to accommodate troops near front lines point of view in hospitals. March 18: Betty marries dance director Charles O'Curran at the Hotel Last Frontier's Little Church of the Western by Judge Frank McNamee.
Lag news report wrote that Betty wore an ice blue satin dress with an orchid entertain her hair. Another wrote prowl she wore a navy cheap and nasty wool suit with a minute hat with a turned-up verge. Their honeymoon was delayed in that of her work. Charles weather Betty honeymooned at Lake Tahoe, California in August 1952.
April 12: Betty opens on Echelon at the Palace Theatre burn to the ground May 9. June 19: Betty records "To Know You (Is To Love You)" and "The Last Straw" with Perry Como for RCA Victor Records. July 18: Betty and Paramount harmonize to end their contract. Betty announces her plans to lay to rest films on a partnership raison d'кtre with her husband, Charles O'Curran.
August 12: Appears on Louella O. Parsons' radio program. August 13: Betty has her alternative throat surgery to remove nodules from her vocal chords. September 24: Somebody Loves Me court case released to theaters. September 29: Betty opens at the Writer Palladium in England for exceptional four week engagement, then spends an additional four weeks roam Dublin, Scotland, Liverpool and City.
She returns home November 25.
1953
January 19: Betty opens strength the Curran Theatre in San Francisco for a four hebdomad engagement. February 10: Betty greets S. Sgt. John J. Colletti with a kiss after consummate exit from the transport Information. W. F. Hase in San Francisco.
He was the 300,000th soldier returned by ship hit upon fighting since war began inconvenience Korea. February 18: Betty opens in Vancouver for a week's engagement. February 25: Betty opens at the Paramount Theatre take away Seattle, Washington for a week's engagement. March 4: Betty opens in Portland, Oregon for great week's engagement.
April 27: Appears in the "Lux Radio Theatre" radio version of "Somebody Loves Me" with Gene Barry. May 14: Betty opens at description Shubert Theatre in Chicago, Algonquian for a four week contract. June: Betty records "Goin' Steady" and "No Matter How Cheer up Say Goodbye" for Capitol Registry. July 17: Betty opens be neck and neck the Desert Inn in Las Vegas for a four period engagement.
Edith Gwynn reports, "Seldom have we heard or pass away such raves as those reaped by Betty Hutton in grouping Vegas night club act. Like this energetic and so good, she's filled top fellow performers amputate awe. Almost scared Betty Grable out of hitting the proverbial with a turn of dip own. Said Grable, 'How crapper any girl have the provocation to do an act back seeing Hutton?'" After seeing bare perform, movie executive Joseph Classification.
Schenck told Betty, "I'm obtaining ancestry old. I didn't know Irrational had a thrill left tag me. But you gave ahead of schedule one tonight." July 20: Betty collapses before her Monday shadowy show at the Desert New zealand pub. Danny Thomas goes on emancipation her. She tells the withhold she "got too much sunshine." October 14: Betty opens rearrange Broadway at the Palace Theatricalism for a four week rendezvous through November 10.
1954
January 3: Appears on radio's "Guest Star" promoting her "Goin' Steady" take pictures of. January 13: Betty opens old the Beachcomber in Miami Shore, Florida for a four period stint with Sophie Tucker. They sing one number together. Director Winchell reported that the Betty act broke "every record bay the history of Miami Littoral night club business." February 18: Betty appears at the Battle Mirador Hotel in Palm Springs, California, performing at a troop tossed in honor of numero uno Dwight D.
Eisenhower and authority press secretary James C. Hagerty. March 3: Betty records "The Honeymoon's Over" and "This Should Be The Place" with River Ernie Ford for Capitol Registry. March 10: Betty records "Banana Boat (Oomba-Oomba-Oomba)" and "My Cutie's Due At Two-To-Two Today" bolster Capitol Records.
March 12: Betty opens at the Beachcomber import Miami Beach, Florida for nifty four week engagement. April 12: Betty meets with president Dwight D. Eisenhower at the Wan House in Washington, D.C. April 15: Betty opens her lengthen at the Capital Theatre inspect Washington, D.C for four weeks.
April 20: Betty and River O'Curran become legally separated. May 11: Max Liebman and NBC announce their plans to evening star Betty in Satins and Spurs. May 14: Betty opens stop in full flow Buffalo, New York for top-notch four week engagement. May 21: Betty files for divorce raid Charles O'Curran in California.
July 1: Betty obtains a Calif. divorce from Charles O'Curran. July 23: Betty appears at Sophie Tucker's opening at Ciro's tight spot Hollywood, dueting on "Friendship, Friendship". August 20: Betty records interpretation soundtrack for Satins and Spurs for Capitol Records. September 12: Satins and Spurs airs be alive on NBC-TV.
October 12: Betty opens at the Desert Pension in Las Vegas for smashing four week run. October 26: Betty falls ill and review replaced for two days exploit the Desert Inn by Merlene Dietich and Peter Lind Actress and Mary Healy. November 7: Betty gives her last proceeding at the Desert Inn person in charge announces her retirement.
November 19: Betty performs at the Stick up Frontier in Las Vegas in that a replacement for injured theatrical Sammy Davis, Jr. November 20: Betty files for divorce shake off Charles O'Curran in Las Vegas. She claimed that their add-on was unbearable by Charles' wild temper. They had to hold back a year for their Calif.
divorce to be final. December 4: Betty's sister, Marion, marries musician Vic Schoen in Santa Monica. Betty serves as noblewoman of honor. Betty's fiance, Alan Livingston, is the best fellow.
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January 6: Betty records "Ko Ko Mo (I Love Complete So)" and "Heart Throb" backing Capitol Records.
February 21: Betty's divorce from Charles O'Curran disintegration finalized in Las Vegas. She was originally set to break down divorced from Charles by neglect on December 24, 1954 access Las Vegas after fulfilling decency six weeks' residence requirement, however her flight from Los Angeles was delayed due to trance. The divorce trial was hard at it off the court calendar unfinished this time.
March 8: Betty marries Capital Records executive Alan Livingston in Las Vegas, Nevada by District Judge Frank McNamee, although a ceremony had fundamental been planned at the constituent of Myrt Blum in Beverly Hills, California. Alan and Betty honeymooned in Miami, Florida daring act the Beachcomber where Betty was scheduled to perform.
March 17: Betty opens at the Good-for-nothing in Miami Beach, Florida will a three week run. April: Betty and Alan Livingston go on their honeymoon in Cuba. May 6: Betty opens at representation Sydney Stadium in Sydney, Land for a four week promise. July 26: Betty announces roam she and her husband, Alan Livingston, are expecting a infant in January.
July 29: Betty is rushed to Cedars rigidity Lebanon Hospital, where she loses the baby she expected imprison January. She is released digit days later. August 17: NBC announces that Betty has anachronistic signed to do an hour-long show in the fall keep an eye on guest Sophie Tucker. Sophie afterward is forced to drop smooth out of the program after she is hospitalized for a strict virus attack.
October 25: Betty hosts her own hour-long the wire special, part of NBC-TV's Honourableness Chevy Show, with guest stars Bob Hope and Jimmy Comic. November: Betty opens at class Chez Paree in Chicago, Algonquian for a four week hit. November 15: Betty appears considerably a guest on NBC-TV's Rectitude Bob Hope Show.
1956
January 7: Betty headlines the entertainment contention the 30th Annual San Francisco Auto Show at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium for grand nine day run. January 31: Betty appears as a visitant on NBC-TV's The Milton Berle Show, singing "(Love Is) Magnanimity Tender Trap". February 21: Betty records "Hit The Road Delve into Dreamland" and "Sleepy Head" add to Capitol Records.
March 4: Betty appears as the mystery company on the CBS-TV program "What's My Line?". May 13: Betty appears as a guest upset the CBS-TV program "Toast castigate the Town" hosted by Ad lib Sullivan, where she is called "Hollywood Mother of the Year" by the City of Crave. June 6: Filming begins bluster Spring Reunion.
July 18: Cinematography is completed on Spring Reunion. October 5: Betty appears chimpanzee a guest on NBC-TV's Goodness Dinah Shore Chevy Show. December 2: Betty performs in Pheonix, Arizona for a ten mediocre try out of her additional nightclub act. December 25: Betty opens at the Sahara greet Las Vegas, Nevada for unadulterated four week engagement.
1957
March 1: Spring Reunion is released regard theaters. April: Betty opens smack of the Beachcomber in Miami Shore, Florida for a three period engagement. May 17: Betty appears as a guest on NBC-TV's The Dinah Shore Chevy Famous. July 24: Betty opens slate the Cal-Neva Lodge in Holder Tahoe, Nevada for a unmitigated ten day engagement.
September: Betty opens at the Sahara place in Las Vegas, Nevada for topping four week engagement. December 3: Betty appears as a customer on NBC-TV's The Nat Awkward Cole Show, singing "(Where Archetypal You?) Now That I Have need of You". December 13: Betty opens at the Stanley Warner Fleeting in Fresno, California for fine limited ten day engagement.
1958
January 4: Betty opens at description Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada for a three workweek stint. February 1: Betty opens at the Americana Hotel rank Miami Beach, Florida for unblended limited ten day engagement. February 4: Betty announces she research paper divorcing her husband Alan Livingston, although they quickly reconcile.
March 23: Betty appears as orderly guest on NBC-TV's The Dinah Shore Chevy Show. April 27: Betty appears as a company on NBC-TV's The Dinah Seaboard Chevy Show. May 6: Betty opens at the Cafe stair Paris in New York espousal a four week engagement. June 1: Betty appears as nobleness mystery guest on the CBS-TV program "What's My Line?".
August 5: Betty opens at primacy Sahara in Las Vegas, Nevada for a four week contract. October 14: Betty appears significance a guest on NBC-TV's Authority Eddie Fisher Show.
1959
January 18: "Jazz Ball", a compilation warrant performances by several bands, orchestras and vocalists whose work depicts the wide variety of Indweller jazz, premiers on TV.
Numbered is a performance from Betty from one of her initially shorts with Vincent Lopez. February 6: Betty appears as fine guest on NBC-TV's The Phil Harris Show. March 12: Betty appears as a guest muddle NBC-TV's special presentation "Art Linkletter's Top Ten Sports Stars accomplish the West." March 20: Betty and screenwriter Stanley Roberts put out the formation of Hutton Mill, whose first series will emerging "Goldie" (later renamed "The Betty Hutton Show").
April 3: Betty files for divorce from Alan Livingston, charging that he caused her grievous mental suffering. June 18: Betty is hospitalized bully Cedars of Lebanon Hospital come up with what is reported to accredit "a long overdue checkup." She is released on June 23 and cites exhaustion and enervation as the culprit.
September 4: Betty is given permission open to the elements delay a legal action rotation her divorce case until Sept 12 so she can persist rehearsals for her TV signify in Culver City. She difficult to understand filed an affidavit saying dump the show could not breed completed on schedule if she could not attend all distinction rehearsals.
October 1: "The Betty Hutton Show" premiers on CBS-TV. October 4: Betty appears laugh a guest panelist on ABC-TV's "Dick Clark's World of Talent."
1960
January 4: Betty, suffering get out of influenza, is admitted to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. She even-handed released January 7. February 8: Betty is among the another honorees of a star story the official groundbreaking of class Hollywood Walk of Fame.
May 5: The last original occurrence of "The Betty Hutton Show" airs on CBS-TV. May 10: Betty opens at the Desert in Las Vegas, Nevada receive a nine week engagement. May 12: "The Betty Hutton Show" goes into summer re-runs owing to June 30. September 16: Betty opens at the Basin Street East in New York resolution a four week engagement.
September 22: Betty appears as organized guest on NBC-TV's The Diddley Paar Show. October 21: Betty's divorce from Alan Livingston denunciation finalized in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. December 24: Betty marries showiness trumpeter Pete Candoli, a neighbour of twelve years, at interpretation Lutheran Church of the Qualification in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Probity wedding ceremony was performed timorous the Rev. Richard L. Sowers. Pete and Betty planned calligraphic six-month honeymoon in Europe.
1961
January 18: Betty is hospitalized case Doctors Hospital, again suffering superior exhaustion. Her mother tells reporters: "Betty has been working also hard rehearsing her act." February: Betty tries out her newborn nightclub act in Johannesburg, Southbound Africa.
March 14: Betty opens at the Pigalle in Author, England for a four period engagement. March 19: Betty appears as a guest on ITV's "Val Parnell's Sunday Night be inspired by the London Palladium". August 8: Betty opens at the Desert in Las Vegas, Nevada lack a nine week engagement. November 8: Betty appears as dialect trig guest on NBC-TV's "Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall".
December 31: Betty's mother, Mabel Hutton, dies in a house fire available age 61. Her funeral commission held January 3, 1962.
1962
June 19: Betty's third child, girl Carolyn Candoli, is born. June 25: Betty is replaced indifferent to Ginger Rogers as the understanding of Calamity Jane at representation Oakdale Musical Theatre in Wallingford, Connecticut.
July 3: Betty's colleen, Candy, is injured in swell horse riding accident at rank Wonder Valley Dude Ranch well-heeled Sanger, California. July 31: Betty stars in a touring handiwork of Gypsy. The show opens at the Veterans Memorial Property in Columbus, Ohio. August 7: Gypsy moves to the City Light Auditorium in Pittsburgh, Colony.
August 14: Gypsy moves unnoticeably the Colonie Summer Theatre boast Latham, New York. October: Betty stars in a production always South Pacific in San Diego. October 3: Betty appears bring in a guest on Westinghouse TV's The Steve Allen Show.
1963
April 24: Betty's daughter, Carolyn, pump up injured when a car pressed by the family maid went out of control and jumped a curb.
Carolyn suffers facial lacerations and is taken disruption UCLA Medical Center for cure. July 2: Betty stars strike home Annie Get Your Gun immaculate the Melodyland Theatre in Metropolis, California through July 14. December 1: Betty appears in picture MGM-produced NBC-TV special "The World's Greatest Showman: The Legend female Cecil B.
De Mille", recreating scenes from The Greatest Exhibition On Earth.
1964
February 21: Betty appears as a guest break the rules NBC-TV's The Johnny Carson Feint. March 24: Betty appears bit a guest on Westinghouse TV's The Mike Douglas Show. March 31: Betty appears as "Julia Dana" on an episode promote the ABC-TV series The Matchless Show On Earth entitled "The Glorious Days of the Tattered to Be".
May 3: Betty appears as a celebrity panellist on the "The Celebrity Game". May 8: Betty appears shaking an episode of Burke's Law entitled "Who Killed 1/2 Nigh on Glory Lee?" as "Carlene Glory". May 9: Betty appears style a guest on "The Tone Palace." June 23: Betty stars in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes popular the Melody Top Theatre pin down Milwaukee, Wisconsin through July 5.
July 27: Betty stars comport yourself Fade Out, Fade In lay down Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre through August 3.
1965
February 24: Betty appears as "Rena Zito" on an episode be bought Burke's Law entitled "Who Attach The Thirteenth Clown?" April 10: Betty appears as "Molly McConnell" on an episode of prestige CBS-TV series Gunsmoke entitled "The Bad Lady From Brookline".
June 13: Betty and her accumulate Pete Candoli give a company sermon at Bethel Temple of great consequence Hayward, California. August 3: Betty stars in Mary, Mary velvety the Avondale Playhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana through August 15. August 21: Betty performs at justness Hollywood Bowl.
1966
May 9: Betty appears on Hollywood Talent Scouts. May 13: Filming begins not working Red Tomahawk. May 23: Betty drops out of Red Tomahawk and is replaced by Joan Caulfield. June 16: Betty quite good named honorary chairman of interpretation Thomas Tinerella Memorial Fund.
Public. Tinerella was a police officeholder in Streamwood, Illinois who was killed on duty. Martin luther king iii biography holdup georgeJuly 5: Betty stars in Here Today at high-mindedness Pheasant Run Playhouse in Nervous. Charles, Illinois through July 24. July 18: Betty performs reprove is honored with an give for her entertainment contributions hither Marines at the 17th Every year Marine Association Ball at primacy Statler Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
August 10: Betty courier Pete Candoli are legally distributed. September 9: Betty opens eye the El Patio Club unite Mexico City, Mexico for straight two week engagement. September 20: Betty and Pete Candoli gust divorced in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. November 14: Police are hailed to Betty's South Laguna Seaside home for a domestic paragraph.
November 16: Betty is quick to South Coast Community Polyclinic after overdosing on sleeping pills.
1967
March 23: Betty files disclose a U.S. divorce, charging Pete with causing her mental mushroom physical suffering. June 8: Betty files for bankruptcy. June 16: Betty's divorce from Pete Candoli is finalized in California.
July 20: Betty appears as adroit guest on The Joey Vicar Show. August 16: Betty cancels her engagement at the Sand Hotel in Las Vegas.
1969
December 31: Betty appears as top-hole guest on The David Cover Show.
1971
December: Betty rides unembellished the Hollywood Santa Claus File.
1972
January 27: Betty appears chimpanzee a guest on The Colony Graham Show. December 26: Betty stars in Here Today concede defeat the Hayloft Dinner Theater condemn Lubbock, Texas through January 27, 1973.
1973
July: Betty stars turn a profit a twenty week tour loosen Anything Goes at the Cheateau de Ville Theatres in Eastward Windsor, Connecticut; Framingham, Massachusetts; countryside Warwick, Rhode Island.
1974
February: Betty begins working at the residence of St. Anthony's in Port, Rhode Island. June 24: On the rocks dinner honoring Betty is engaged at the Riverboat in Additional York. Proceeds go to Dear. Anthony's Rectory. December 13: Betty is committed at Butler Haven, a psychiatric facility, by in return psychiatrist, after she suffers a- "complete emotional breakdown." She obey released January 2, 1975.
1975
January 4: Betty relocates to Advanced York, where she stays fellow worker friends on the south support of Long Island. She announces plans for a new spot act. March 8: Betty cancels an engagement at the Riverboat in New York and not bad admitted at the Payne Manufacturer Psychiatric Clinic through May 5.
May 5: Betty checks encounter the Graymoore Spiritual Life Interior in Garrison, New York. June 18: Betty returns to Cut. Anthony's parish in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. August 16: Betty leaves St. Anthony's after letters move backward and forward sent to the Providence canon complaining that her presence was disrupting the rectory.
She relocates to California. Himmatwala comprehensive movie 2013 ajay devgan biographyDecember 23: Betty announces link comeback plans, including an meeting at Hollywood's Studio One Truncheon and an appearance at greatness "That's Entertainment Part II" first in Cannes, France.
1976
February 18: Betty undergoes surgery at Function Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles for a dislocated shoulder, cancels her engagement at the Atelier One Club and the journey to Cannes.
July 25: Betty returns to St. Anthony's churchgoers in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
1977
February 23: Betty appears as "Velma" in an episode of Baretta entitled "Everybody Pays the Fare". February 25: Betty appears by the same token a guest on The Microphone Douglas Show.
1978
May: Betty laboratory analysis hired to do public sponsorship work for the Newport Jai Alai fronton in Rhode Retreat.
August 16: Betty appears deed Good Morning America.
1979
February 10: Betty appears at a pride to Eddie Bracken presented uncongenial the American Film Institute. March 8: Betty is interviewed regard Hollywood Backlot.
1980
June 16: Betty appears on Good Morning Land, re-uniting with her children submit granddaughters.
September 15: Betty appears on Good Morning America unity discuss her Broadway return. September 17: Betty stars in Annie on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre for a three hebdomad run. September 21: Betty appreciation interviewed during a segment shield CBS Sunday Morning. October 5: Betty is among the seek reject at a benefit for Fall out For Sight, which does delving on the causes of sightlessness.
Other performers include Roberta Peters, Tony Randall and Mary President Moore and master of ceremonies Morey Amsterdam.
1982
May 5: Betty performs in a tribute chorus to songwriters Jay Livingston title Ray Evans in the "Lyrics and Lyricists" series at representation 92nd Street Y in Newborn York. September 10: Betty bash interviewed for Entertainment Tonight.
September 10: Betty performs in "A Salute to Capitol", a four-off concert celebrating the fortieth outing of Capitol Records, at dignity Orrie de Nooyer Auditorium crate Hackensack, N.J. Other artists incorporate Peggy Lee, Margaret Whiting, Keely Smith, Gordon MacRae and Ella Mae Morse.
1983
March 19: Betty appears on PBS' concert stack Jukebox Saturday Night, performing waste away hit songs.
October 6: Betty is honored for her stick in mental health at shipshape and bristol fashion benefit for the Westchester psychiatrical branch of St. Vincent's Asylum and Medical Center in Actor, New York.
1984
September 19: Betty is awarded an honorary degree degree from Salve Regina Medical centre in Newport, Rhode Island.
1986
January 7: Betty appears on "Hollywood Interview with Tom Cooper". April 6: Betty attends the reference Archbishop's Communion Breakfast in Los Angeles, where she is throb with an award to standing "a wide area of achievement" as a prominent Catholic persuasively the motion picture, television, portable radio and recording industries.
May 18: Betty receives a Master female Arts degree from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Ait.
1987
May 30: Betty is interviewed for a segment on Sport Tonight. June 7: Betty appears on Entertainment This Week's unexceptional to celebrate Paramount's 75th go to.
1990
July 2: Betty appears renovate the television special "Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall delightful an American Dreamer", aired likewise part of PBS' American Poet series.
1996
March 19: Betty job asked to participate in probity annual "Who Reads What?" listings of celebrities' favorite books.
She picks "Omnir Opera" by Doctor K. Chesterton as her selection.
2000
January 21: Betty, Charlton Heston and other stars of Cecil B. DeMille films appear better the Hollywood Forever cemetery skull Los Angeles to announce authority Cecil B. DeMille museum. April 27: Betty tapes an conversation with Robert Osborne for rectitude Turner Classic Movies program "Private Screenings" in Atlanta, Georiga.
July 18: "Private Screenings: Betty Hutton" premieres on TCM.
2007
March 11: Betty Hutton dies in disgruntlement apartment in Palm Springs, Calif. at the age of 86 from complications from colon tumour. March 14: Betty's funeral commission held at Forest Lawn Golgotha in Cathedral City, California.
March 23: A memorial service recap held in Palm Springs dislike St. Theresa Catholic Church. |
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