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5 unusual facts about Betty Hutton


Harry Winter

In 1948, Winter had recorded Und jetzt ist es still, which was covered by Betty Hutton in 1951 and by Björk in 1995 with the title It's oh so quiet.

Jack Dawn

Dawn worked with many of Hollywood's legendary performers, including Laurel and Hardy, Greta Garbo, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Greer Garson, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Fred Astaire, and Betty Hutton.

Lynne McNamara

As a young girl in the 1950s, inspired by the actress Betty Hutton in the Cecil B. DeMille epic, The Greatest Show on Earth, Lynne dreamed of becoming a movie star when she grew up.

Marla Heasley

They then went on to become successful entertainment managers and represented actors such as, Shelly Winters, Betty Hutton, and Audie Murphy to name a few.

Rio Nido, California

The San Francisco Chronicle once reported the extended appearance in Rio Nido by singer-actress Betty Hutton.


Benny Fields

The story would not be told until 1952, however, in the Paramount film Somebody Loves Me (1952) with Betty Hutton and Ralph Meeker.

Cass Daley

In the 1940s, Daley embarked on a movie career, most notably in The Fleet's In (1942) with Dorothy Lamour and Betty Hutton and Crazy House (1943) with Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson.

Films of the Golden Age

Among the many performers who have been covered by the magazine over the years were Tyrone Power, Butterfly McQueen, Olivia de Havilland, Betty Hutton, Robert Mitchum, Noël Coward, Anita Page, Conway Tearle, Edna May Oliver, James Dean, Dorothy Dandridge, Gene Kelly, Esther Williams, Una Merkel, and directors Michael Curtiz, and W. S. Van Dyke.

Hit the Road to Dreamland

Betty Hutton's 1956 rendition of the song was featured on the soundtrack to L.A. Confidential (1997).

Marion Hutton

Jeanine Basinger, a film historian and professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, refers to Marion Hutton in her chapter on Marion's younger sister, actress and singer Betty Hutton in the 2007 book The Star Machine.

Murder, He Says

"Murder, He Says" is also a jazz standard first recorded by Betty Hutton and later popularized by Dinah Shore.


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