She Can Do Anything Deader Than You
Or
Dead, Cold and Blue
(Stolen from The Derby Dead Pool, where I am languishing in 106th)
Betty Hutton, star of classic musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, has died of complications of colon cancer at the age of 86. Most famously, Hutton was the bridge between Ethel Merman and Bernadette Peters in the role of Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun, in which she sang “Anything you can do, I can do better” with Howard Keel, which can now be heard as Claire Danes and Patrick Wilson try to sell Gap pants. Other roles included Chuck Heston’s high-wire girlfriend in The Greatest Show on Earth. Her acting career interrupted bouts of poverty. As a child, she sang on street corners to support her alcoholic mother and in the 1970s was working as a cook and housekeeper in the rectory of a Roman Catholic church in Portsmouth, R.I. after she had become addicted to sleeping pills and alcohol and had lost what she estimated to be a $10 million fortune.
Dead, Cold and Blue
(Stolen from The Derby Dead Pool, where I am languishing in 106th)
Betty Hutton, star of classic musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, has died of complications of colon cancer at the age of 86. Most famously, Hutton was the bridge between Ethel Merman and Bernadette Peters in the role of Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun, in which she sang “Anything you can do, I can do better” with Howard Keel, which can now be heard as Claire Danes and Patrick Wilson try to sell Gap pants. Other roles included Chuck Heston’s high-wire girlfriend in The Greatest Show on Earth. Her acting career interrupted bouts of poverty. As a child, she sang on street corners to support her alcoholic mother and in the 1970s was working as a cook and housekeeper in the rectory of a Roman Catholic church in Portsmouth, R.I. after she had become addicted to sleeping pills and alcohol and had lost what she estimated to be a $10 million fortune.
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