Movies: Betty Hutton

Tired of playing their theme song, “Nola,” ad nauseam, Vincent Lopez’s orchestra rebels. They perform a number of other tunes with vocalists including Betty Hutton (in one of her first screen appearances) and virtuoso whistler Fred Lowery....

In this entertaining short, famous literary figures step out of the pages of books after dark....

Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, her USO partner Donald Elwood, who agrees to help her fi...

A young woman spends much of her time fantasizing about what might be, but a realistic admirer tries to convince her to live the life she has....

A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three customers of the "fat farm" scheme to get back at their philandering husbands by hiring the soldier and t...

A filmed broadcast of the Command Performance radio programs in which various Hollywood stars appeared and performed in accordance with letter requests from American service men stationed around the world. This entry (Army-Navy Screen Magazine No. 20...

The government has set up a special agency to stamp out what it considers the number one public menace: the jitterbug. They aren't after the many followers, but the primary perpetrator of the jitterbug, who they've coined "Public Jitterbug No. 1". Ha...

A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion....

Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history....

Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship with vaudeville singer Benny Fields....

Documentary about the life and work of film director Preston Sturges....

A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s....

Singer-comedian Betty Button shares stories from her career as one of Hollywood's top stars....

A rodeo performer at a show in Madison Square Garden falls for a handsome photographer who's been assigned to do a story on the show for Life Magazine....