Betty Hutton

Audra McDonald slips into L.A. to sing and stump for PBS

2013-01-15 12:55:00

Cabaret fanatics – and you know who you are – invariably suffer a persistent worry: What if there is some amazing live gig out there I don’t know about? Well, Monday night your worst nightmare came and went -- unless you were one of...

Classic Hollywood: The movies at work

2012-09-02 17:15:00

As far back as Louis Lumi�re's 1895 "Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory in Lyon" 46-second short, work has been a central theme in motion pictures.�There have been stark dramas about officer workers as drones (King Vidor's 1928 "The Crowd"), satires...

Marie Osborne Yeats dies at 99; as Baby Marie Osborne she starred in early silent movies

2010-11-18 00:00:00

Marie Osborne Yeats, a top child star during the early silent-movie era who was billed as Baby Marie Osborne in films such as "Little Mary Sunshine," has died. She was 99. Yeats, who had a later career as a movie studio costume supervisor, died Nov. 11...

Drum pioneer snares a big chunk of the market

2010-04-04 00:00:00

The gig: Chief executive and founder of Valencia-based Remo Inc., a pioneer in drumhead technology and a leading manufacturer of drumheads for more than 50 years. Background: Remo Belli, 82, started drumming at age 12, while growing up in the South Bend-...

Mystery Photo

2010-02-01 16:32:50

Requiem: 2007 passings of note

2007-12-29 00:00:00

Among the major notables who passed from the scene this year, three of the most famous -- two masters of cinema and a genius of football -- died on the same day: July 30. Two others -- a historic Russian leader and a U.S. chronicler of war -- left us...

Debbie Reynolds sings, jokes, does impressions -- and shows a little leg

2008-07-12 00:00:00

Mary Frances Reynolds is back in the old neighborhood. You know her as Debbie Reynolds. That's the name given to her when, as a 16-year-old, she was first under studio contract. Talent scouts had spotted her in the Miss Burbank beauty contest, which she'...

Irving Brecher dies at 94; Comedy writer got an Oscar nod for 'Meet Me in St. Louis'

2008-11-19 00:00:00

Irving Brecher, a comedy writer whose career in radio, television and the movies included writing two Marx Brothers comedies, co-writing the Judy Garland musical "Meet Me in St. Louis" and creating the radio and TV series "The Life of Riley," has died. He...

Alan W. Livingston dies at 91; former president of Capitol Records

2009-03-14 00:00:00

Alan W. Livingston, an entertainment industry veteran whose career included creating the character of Bozo the Clown for popular children's read-along record albums in the 1940s and signing the Beatles during his tenure as president of Capitol Records...

A note to Saint Pedestrian

2011-09-18 07:00:00

Let me understand this: We have a pedestrian who bolts out against the red light into a large oncoming truck, she gets totaled, and some brain surgeon writes that the solution is to ticket more motorists. Amazing (“70-year-old woman struck by...

Celebrate summer with a FREE outdoor movie tonight!

2011-06-28 16:22:30

Auditions: Winter Park Playhouse musical productions

2011-03-22 16:36:51

"The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952) Though it's hard to believe, this cornball Cecil B. DeMille melodrama -- featuring a cast of thousands, including Jimmy Stewart, Betty Hutton, Dorothy Lamour, Cornel Wilde and Gloria Grahame -- took home the Oscar for best film.

2008-04-06 16:21:20

Betty Hutton

2007-03-13 10:37:51

Actress Betty Hutton, March 11 Betty Hutton, the actress and singer who brought a brassy vitality to Hollywood musicals such as "Annie Get Your Gun," has died in Palm Springs, Calif., at the age of 86.

2007-03-13 06:16:54