Betty Hutton - A New Favorite

 

For now this will be an ongoing series of posts. 

The first time I ever truly knew about this actress was just yesterday. I was exploring around various 40s music, until I stumbled across her song, Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief. The version I watched was her appearance in movie The Stork Club (1945). 

I was absolutely amused by her performance and I needed to know more about her immediately. Later as I realized, I really associate her eccentric personality, usually when a person sings, they just go along with it in a normal perspective, when she sings she does these zany movements it makes it even more entertaining. 

I'll prove it to you.

When I first watched this, I was laughing, she was so full of spirit it's hard to dislike it because she's having fun with her performance and y'know that makes me extremely contented. 

Observe as she sings "I'm Just A Square In A Social Circle" Great song!

Normally, I love old songs, the people sound gentle, and the rhythm, melody is all whimsical and calm, sometimes the song can go over-the-top ridiculous in many great ways like with my favorites from Glenn Miller, and Tony Pastor. My favorite music decades are the 30s and 40s and almost every song sounds comforting to listen to. 

But in that vain of normal goodness, it's always rare to see a music number be so astonishing and impressive to me, I have a playlist on YouTube with all my favorite songs and there's only a course of 30 I put in so far I could listen on repeat. That's saying alot from a person who listens to over a million songs. 

However with Betty Hutton's performances, all I seen so far, she's perfect in all of them. I'm not kidding. How did I not grow up with this actress? 

This is another great one!

She was one of the most comedic, most overlooked entertainers in the 20th century if you ask me.

There are over hundreds of actors/actresses/musicians I have admired, I can go all day telling all about them, but if you were gonna ask individuals I think nailed classic entertainment and had influence on me the most it would be quite a few.

The Three Stooges were more than just a comedy group, they had unique and distinct voices for each stooge, the slapstick was absolutely hilarious, each short is like an adventure only for it to be taken in normal society, and the characters had such influential and comedic force. If you want to watch any of their short films, good for you, YouTube has all 190 of the shorts free to watch, my favorites are We Want Our Mummy, Disorder In The Court, and A Pain In The Pullman.

Billy Gilbert astounded me the most when I first experienced him, his favorite roles were in The Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy shorts. Reasons why I honor him is that he's got alot of strength whenever he gets enraged like with The Music Box (1932), still one of the best outrageous performances in film history. 

Bing Crosby is arguably the most important, and most influential singers of the 20th century, while he's most notable for his songs, his acting is just phenomenal too. He makes a few funny facial expressions here and there, and he's got the most perfect personality I seen in an actor. His laid-back demeanor and unique calm voice really shows how entertaining his films can be. 

Gene Kelly's dancing is like nothing I ever seen, while Fred Astaire is magnificent and enormously talented, there's just something more to Gene's dancing than others. He adds alot more variety to his dance numbers, instead of the usual tap-dance and foxtrot routines. His dances are extremely sharp, has a fine voice and is geniuely reliable.  

Just like I said with other talents I mentioned, Betty Hutton will always be remembered and not to be forgotten, it's no wonder as to why I never experienced her until now. She's absolutely marvelous. I would recommend to check out her stuff.