Betty Hutton Says Murder
Channel: Past Entertainment
Date: 2021-11-22

Betty Hutton conquered the musical stage, film, records, and television. That represents quite a climb for a young woman who began her career as a 5-year-old child in her mother’s speakeasy. Her father had abandoned them, leaving her mother to take care of two young girls. 
By the time she was 19 she had begun appearing in musical shorts for Warner Brothers. Her energy, plastic face and abundant song and dance talents were quickly recognized and in 1940 she was offered a role on Broadway in Two for the Show. In 1942 she was cast in the motion picture, The Fleet’s In. From there her career skyrocketed. 
Hutton’s career lasted into the 1980’s when she returned to Broadway for two weeks in the play Annie. Two years later she would appear in the Capitol Record’s 40th Anniversary Tribute. The New York Times called her appearance there, “the emotional highlight” of the show.
Here she sings one of her best known songs, “ Murder He Says” by Jimmy McHugh and Frank Loesser.