The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-16
Psse Z TIE KEY WEsT CHIN FFiday January To- l9ss
Betty Hutton Says She Will
Win Academy Award Some Day
BY JAMES BACON
For Bob Thonlasl

uOLL WOOD WI - VIII Oh
Academy Award one of these days.
/ know I will"
That's the new and emancipated
Betty Hutton talking. And when
Betty talks, there's not much a
reporter can do but sit back, listen
and usually agreed with her.
ST know that sounds cocky,"
explains the bouncy blonde from
Battle Creek. 81 don't mean it to
be. I'm just so intense about every
thing / do-and so hard to please
that it's just bound to happen.
Betty, like most successful grad
yates of the hard knocks school, is
more self-confident than conceited.
When she says she's going to win
an Oscar, it's like Babe Ruth at
home plate waving his bat in the
direction of the center-field bleach
Iers.
"The main reason / left Para
mount" she confides, was be-
Icause I couldn't convince them
lover there that / could act"
Ironically, her best Paramount
picture in years, Somebody Loves
Me-" was her last for the studio.
The studio wanted her to do Top
sy and Eva" the story of the
Duncan Sisters. There was a front
office hassle over the script one
Iday and suddenly it was announced
THAT Betty and Paramount had
parted after IL years
II know people around town
Thought me little screwy for
chucking $1,000 a week but l just
couldn't go on playing crazy
blondes the rest of my life"
Betty had one of the choice
Studio contracts around town. She
lgot paid the year round instead of
1.-THE usual 40 weeks.
"The money didn't bother me-"
she discloses, because / can make
las much in eight weeks with my
lstage show as | could in year
with the studio"
She and her husband Charles
I0'Curran have formed a new cor
Iporation wherein the Hutton stage
show goes on the road like circus.
They even rent the theaters them
selves. It's opening this week in
San Francisco.
asked her if there was any
truth to the reports that the Para
mount haSsle followed her insis-
tence that O'Curran direct "Topsy
and Eva" Some columnists had
printed rumors that co-star Ginger
Rogers refused to be directed by
0'Curran.
| II seems that in Hollywood, the
land of choice closeups and camera
langles, one feminine star doesn't
want the other stars husband call
ling the shots. 1t was no reflection
on 0'Curran, very talented direc-
tor.
| Nothing to it," answered Betty,
holding up her right hand. The
whole trouble was over script I'll
argue like hell when / know I'm
/ right" She apparently was right
because the Duncan Sisters story
since has been shelved at Para
mount.
/ She says the only Eight she had
lat Paramount was trying to get
lO'Curran's contract broken.
"They we're glad to drop hot
potato like me but they wanted to
hang onto Charlie. He didn't need
me but needed him to stage my
road show
The O'Curran-Hutton combine
also is Incorporating for movies
and television. Betty owns the
rights to make a movie of Sophie
fuckers life. She's holding off on
television until she gets the right
fOrmat.
"I'm nuts about corporations.
exudes Betty. I've been support
ing my family since | was kid
/ have a business head on me-
I'll bet you'll 60 away from here
thinking I'm not lame-brained
blonde after all"