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BETTY HUTTON

Betty Hutton, Film Star of ’40s and ’50s, Dies at 86

Hutton was a local but virtually a recluse. I never saw her here.

When I was a kid I saw every picture she made. She was full of energy and relentlessly 'happy'.

Not so in her personal life. She disappeared in the 50s and never came back.

We recently saw her in Preston Sturgess' Miracle at Morgan's Creek', a daring comedy for its time as it took on the virgin birth and put it in the present day.

It is amazing that it was ever made.

It is a NYTimes Best Film.

Labels: best films, obituary