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Private Screenings: Betty Hutton (2000)
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I saw that interview with Robert Osborne and Betty Hutton at least twice. Not once does Betty take accountability for her own actions in her life. She played the blame game throughout the entire interview. Everything was always everybody's else's fault!! I have read a lot regarding Betty Hutton and from the many things I have read she was a major egotist. Her head was so big it couldn't fit through the door. She treated people very badly. If you care to take the time to search the web...there is a statement from Dorothy Lamour who tried to befriend her. She asked Dorothy, (don't know what movie they were making together) "why doesn't anyone like her". Dorothy told her "you cannot treat people the way you do and expect anyone to like you". She was a real piece of work. Robert said in his introduction that she really handcuffed him on the number of topics he could discuss with her. What was she afraid of? I have also read when her and her sister were growing up that Betty was extremely jealous of her sister. That she would stand on her head, do cartwheels, anything to get the attention away from her sister. When her sister started singing with a big band, Betty could hardly stand it. Betty's sister (Marian) was very happy with Betty's success and wasn't jealous in the least as she chose to Give up singing on her own and was very happy with her husband and children and moved to Washington State, I believe. I think Marian's husband was a big wig in the music business. DECCA Records comes to mind but can't remember. Marian had a wonderful relationship with her husband and children, something Betty didn't have. Everyone walked away from Betty, her studio, her children, her husband's and her sister all left her never wanting to have anything to do with her again!
They all couldn't have been wrong. Yet Betty takes no responsibility for any of it. She turned into a bitter, sad, person in the end with no one attending her funeral. It was sad what she did to herself. Even when she tried to reconcile with her kids she made it all about her. That's when they walked away for good!!!