Betty Hutton, who died Sunday in Palm Springs at 86, brought frenetic “whoop and holler” song-and-dance skills to a string of Hollywood roles in the 1940s and 1950s, notably as Annie Oakley in “Annie ...

Let’s Dance (Paramount) teams Fred Astaire with Betty Hutton in a talky musicomedy that takes its plot too seriously and its stars’ special talents too lightly. As a war widow fighting her husband’s ...

It was not an auspicious debut. Mom strummed the ukulele in the blind pig that she operated in Lansing, Mich., and out onto the floor came a skinny, freckled five-year-old named Betty June Thornburg, ...