Betty Hutton

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Star Spangled Rhythm (FILM) Jan. 1, 2001

L.A. Confidential (FILM) Sep. 19, 1997

That's Entertainment! III (FILM) May. 6, 1994

Wisecracks (FILM) Sep. 29, 1993

Crimes and Misdemeanors (FILM) Dec. 13, 1989

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2000 Gave first major TV interview in nearly 20 years to Robert Osborne for the American Movie Classics series "Private Screenings"

1988 Collapsed while teaching; diagnosed with Epstein-Barr syndrome

1986 Named a member of the faculty of Salve Regina College in Newport, Rhode Island, teaching motion picture and TV classes

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2000 Gave first major TV interview in nearly 20 years to Robert Osborne for the American Movie Classics series "Private Screenings"

1988 Collapsed while teaching; diagnosed with Epstein-Barr syndrome

1986 Named a member of the faculty of Salve Regina College in Newport, Rhode Island, teaching motion picture and TV classes

1981 Returned to Broadway for two weeks playing Miss Hannigan in the hit musical "Annie"

1978 Hired to greet people at the door of a jai-alai playing field and establishment in Connecticut

1976 Made guest appearance on the ABC detective series "Baretta"

1975 Briefly resumed nightclub career

1967 Filed for bankruptcy

1964 Returned to Broadway as Carol Burnett's replacement for one week in the musical, "Fade Out, Fade In"

1962 Toured in a summer production of "Gypsy"

1959 Starred as a manicurist on short-lived CBS sitcom, "Goldie" (retitled "The Betty Hutton Show")

1957 Returned to film with "Spring Reunion" (her last film to date)

1954 TV debut as the star of the musical special, "Satins and Spurs" (NBC)

1954 Announced retirement as a result of failure of TV special

1953 Returned to Capitol Records

1952 Played the trapeze artist in Cecil B DeMille's "The Greatest Show on Earth"

1952 After successful vaudeville engagement at the Palace Theatre in New York, underwent throat surgery and had to retrain her voice

1952 Walked out of her Paramount contract (a year before it expired) when the studio refused to allow her husband Charles O'Curran to direct her vehicle "Topsy and Eva"; film was never made

1952 Turned to successful vaudeville career

1950 Signed with RCA Victor records

1950 Replaced an ailing Judy Garland as Annie Oakley in the film version of Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun"

1945 Starred in first dramatic role as Texas Guinan in "Incendiary Blonde"

1944 Appeared in first non-singing role, "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek", directed by Preston Sturges

1944 Renegotiated new contract with Paramount at $5,000 a week

1944 Toured vaudeville circuit

1944 Embarked on a two-month USO tour of the South Pacific

1943 Became one of the first performers to be signed by songwriter Johnny Mercer for the newly formed Capitol Records

1942 Hired at $1,000 a week by "Panama Hattie" producer B G 'Buddy' DeSylva to make feature debut in Paramount musical, "The Fleet's In"

1942 Named Star of Tomorrow by the MOTION PICTURE HERALD exhibitors' poll

1942 Landed a comedy and singing job on radio's "The Bob Hope Show" (date approximate)

1940 Left Lopez's band; Broadway stage debut in revue, "Two For the Show"

1940 Featured in the Cole Porter Broadway musical "Panama Hattie", starring Ethel Merman

1939 Recording debut on Bluebird Records doing vocals with Vincent Lopez's band on "Igloo" and "The Jitterbug" and a duet with Sonny Shuyler on "Concert in the Park"

1939 Screen debut in Vitaphone short, "Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra"; also appeared with Hal Sherman in Vitaphone short, "One For the Book" (1939) and with Hal LeRoy in "Public Jitterbug No. 1" (1939)

1939 Made first short for Paramount, "Three Kings and a Queen"

1939 Performed on Vincent Lopez's NBC radio program; toured vaudeville circuit with bandleader

1938 Sister became a vocalist with the Glenn Miller band; both sisters changed their last name to Hutton

1938 Professional singing debut with the Lopez band at Billy Rose's Casa Manana Club in Manhattan

1937 Discovered by bandleader Vincent Lopez, singing at a Detroit nightclub; hired as vocalist with Lopez's band at $65 at week; used name of Betty Darling on tour (had previously been billed as Betty Jane

1923 Mother moved with daughters to Detroit where she worked in an automobile factory and operated a speakeasy after husband's desertion (date approximate)

Began career dancing on tabletops with her sister at her mother's bootleg bar in Lansing, Michigan at age three

Got first professional job as a singer at a Michigan summer resort at age 13; worked with a local band composed of high school students

Made brief, unsuccessful trip to New York to break into show business at age 15

Moved into St Anthony's Rectory in Portsmouth, Rhode Island after entering a detox program; worked as a housekeeper--cooking, washing dishes and making beds at rectory; converted to Catholicism in the

Returned to Rhode Island to live