Betty Hutton was born Elizabeth June Thornburg on February 26, 1921, in Battle Creek, Michigan. Two years later Betty's father decided that the family way of life wasn't for him, so he left (he committed suicide 16 years later). Having to fend for themselves, Mrs. Thornburg moved the family to Detroit to find work in the numerous auto factories there...See full bio »
1952Somebody Loves Me
(performer: "Somebody Loves Me", "Teasing Rag", "I Can't Tell Why I Love You, But I Do" 1900, "Dixie June", "On San Francisco Bay", "Smiles" 1917, "Rose Room", "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" 1922, "Jealous", "Love Him" 1952, "Dixie Dreams" / "Toddling the Todalo", "Smiles" 1917, "Love Him" 1952)
1952The Greatest Show on Earth
(performer: "The Greatest Show on Earth" 1951, "Be a Jumping-Jack" 1951, "Only a Rose" 1925 - uncredited)
1950Let's Dance
(performer: "Can't Stop Talking About Him" - uncredited, "Oh Them Dudes" - uncredited, "Why Fight the Feeling" - uncredited, "Tunnel of Love" - uncredited)
1950Moments in Music
(documentary short)
(performer: "Doctor, Lawyer and Indian Chief")
1950Annie Get Your Gun
(performer: "YOU CAN'T GET A MAN WITH A GUN", "DOIN' WHAT COMES NATUR'LLY", "I'M AN INDIAN TOO", "I GOT THE SUN IN THE MORNING", "ANYTHING YOU CAN DO", "THEY SAY IT'S WONDERFUL")
1949Red, Hot and Blue
(performer: "THAT'S LOYALTY" - uncredited, "I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING FEELING FINE" - uncredited, "HAMLET" - uncredited, "NOW THAT I NEED YOU" - uncredited)
1947The Perils of Pauline
(performer: "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" 1947 - uncredited, "The Sewing Machine" 1947 - uncredited, "Rumble, Rumble, Rumble" 1947 - uncredited, "Poppa, Don't Preach To Me" 1947 - uncredited)
1946Cross My Heart
(performer: "THAT LITTLE DREAM GOT NOWHERE", "HOW DO YOU DO IT", "LOVE IS THE DARNDEST THING")
1946Headline Bands
(short)
(performer: "Old Man Mose" - uncredited)
1945The Stork Club
(performer: "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief" 1945 - uncredited, "If I Had A Dozen Hearts" 1945 - uncredited, "I'm a Square in the Social Circle" 1945 - uncredited, "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" 1905 - uncredited)
1945Incendiary Blonde
(performer: "It Had To Be You" 1924 - uncredited, "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" - uncredited, "Oh By Jingo! Oh By Gee, You're the Only Girl For Me" 1919 - uncredited, "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?" - uncredited, "Row, Row, Row" 1912 - uncredited)
1944Here Come the Waves
(performer: "There's a Fellow Waiting in Poughkeepsie" - uncredited, "I Promise You" - uncredited, "Come Join the Waves" - uncredited)
1944And the Angels Sing
(performer: "HIS ROCKING HORSE RAN AWAY", "BLUEBIRDS IN MY BELFRY", "FOR THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS", "KNOCKING ON YOUR OWN FRONT DOOR")
1943Happy Go Lucky
(performer: "Murder, He Says", "The Fuddy Duddy Watchmaker")
1943Strictly G.I.
(short)
(performer: "'Murder,' He Says")
1942The Fleet's In
(performer: "Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry" - uncredited, "Not Mine" - uncredited, "If You Build a Better Mousetrap" - uncredited)
1940One for the Book
(short)
(performer: "Old Man Mose Ain't Dead" - uncredited, "Mr. End Man" - uncredited)
I am not a great singer and I am not a great dancer, but I am a great actress, and nobody ever let me act except [director] Preston Sturges. He believed in me.
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Trivia:
Starred in TV's first "spectacular",
Satins and Spurs, which debuted on September 12, 1954. It was a 90-minute musical comedy produced by Max Liebman. She played a rodeo queen who falls for a magazine writer, played by Kevin McCarthy. Reactions by critics and viewers were so negative that she announced her retirement from show business (one of the many times.)
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