VETERAN ACTRESS BETTY HUTTON DEAD AT 86

Betty Hutton, the bubbly actress and singer who starred in countless musicals in the 1940s and early '50s, has died in Palm Springs at age 86. A friend confirmed to the Associated Press only that she had died, saying that the actual time and cause of death would be provided at a later time by the executor of her estate. She was best known for a series of films in which she played real-life personalities -- including Annie Get Your Gun, about Annie Oakley; Somebody Loves Me, about Blossom Seeley; Incendiary Blonde, about Texas Guinan, and Perils of Pauline, about Pearl White.


13/03/2007