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Stage Name |
Birth Name |
| Betty Hutton |
Elizabeth
June Thornburg |
Actress Betty Hutton was not really a dancer
rather a film Actress/Singer but did do some wild and eccentric
dancing in the "Broadway Highlights video" as well as
a featured 'Jitterbug dancer' (was good) in the 1939 Vitaphone
Short Subject film and a few others.
Betty grew up in poverty and at nine years
old Betty began singing publicly for the first time in a school
production. By the age of thirteen betty would be singing with
a few local bands in her area. Later moving to New York, she headed
for Broadway. This would lead her to Hollywood where she would
appear in a few musical shorts and
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was signed up by Paramount Studios
where she made her major film debut in the 1942 film "THE
FLEET'S IN." Betty also had a nightclub act. She got her
big break by getting herself tied to the railroad tracks as Pearl
White, in "The Perils of Pauline series."
Betty also did the Magazine adv's for Jergan's
Soap, Lipton Soup, Max Factor, Royal Crown Soda, Overglo Makeup,
Stetson Hats and Chesterfield Cigarettes. |
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