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| re: For those missing some Shakespeare, here's Betty Hutton | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 05:47 pm EDT 03/22/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 05:44 pm EDT 03/22/21 | |
| In reply to: re: For those missing some Shakespeare, here's Betty Hutton - PlazaBoy 05:34 pm EDT 03/22/21 | |
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| Betty was hugely popular in her time; she was the Blonde Bombshell, full of energy. Bob Hope once called her "a vitamin pill with legs". Of course, she wasn't to everyone's taste; someone I knew said that when he saw her films in the movies as a kid, he used to start to cry! I think she's fabulous, but she is giving off a whole lot of energy that maybe some aren't used to or just not to their taste. She could pull it back and be quite effective just singing a ballad though, and still hilariously funny while directed judiciously to hold back a bit by writer/director Preston Sturges in his fantastic, how-it-ever-got-by the-censors, "Miracle of Morgan's Creek" | |
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| re: For those missing some Shakespeare, here's Betty Hutton | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 10:22 pm EDT 03/22/21 | |
| In reply to: re: For those missing some Shakespeare, here's Betty Hutton - PlayWiz 05:44 pm EDT 03/22/21 | |
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| When I was a kid in the 50's, a Chicago station (possibly ABC) regularly broadcast many of Hutton's films at 10:00 or 10:30 PM. They were usually introduced by Jim Moran, the Courtesy Man. I could only watch them during the summer months, but I loved every one they showed because she had so much energy and she always made me laugh. I'm pretty sure they weren't even her better films. Certainly not Miracle of Morgan's Creek, which I believe was condemned by the Catholic Church's Legion of Decency. I think I saw it for the first time when it was released on VHS, maybe around 1978. I didn't buy it, but was probably able to rent it somewhere. I was probably around 30 years of age. I agree that it's hilariously funny but also (especially in the 70's) pretty shocking. Today, of course, I own it on DVD. I didn't see Annie Get Your Gun and The Greatest Show on Earth until they debuted on either Saturday Night at the Movies (or one of the other 6 nights -- eventually there was one on all 7 nights). So probably in the 60's. I remember seeing films like Happy Go Lucky, Incendiary Blonde, The Perils of Pauline, Dream Girl, probably others. I definitely enjoyed them as a pre-teen in the 50's. Maltin's Guide still gives Incendiary and Perils 3 stars out of a possible 4. The other two do not fare as well. For me, her films that hold up the best and which I still love watching over and over again are Miracle, Annie, Greatest Show. |
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| I saw her as Rose in Gypsy | |
| Posted by: aleck 12:14 pm EDT 03/23/21 | |
| In reply to: re: For those missing some Shakespeare, here's Betty Hutton - BroadwayTonyJ 10:22 pm EDT 03/22/21 | |
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| I don't recall that she was particularly manic. In fact, as I recall, she stood still longer on stage than Patti did -- less roaming around, less air punching. Bernadette Peters was Dainty June in that Hutton production. |
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| re: For those missing some Shakespeare, here's Betty Hutton | |
| Posted by: PlazaBoy 05:52 pm EDT 03/22/21 | |
| In reply to: re: For those missing some Shakespeare, here's Betty Hutton - PlayWiz 05:44 pm EDT 03/22/21 | |
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| That's a good analysis. Lol about her making a child cry! Martha Raye can feel the same way to me, although she has an underlying vulnerability that often saves it for me. |
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