Girlfriends

Ethel Merman, Mae West and Judy Garland

Irene Dunne and Barbara Stanwyck

Susan Hayward and Ingrid Bergman

Dorothy Lamour, Gracie Allen and Betty Hutton

Jane Powell, Noel Coward and Zsa Zsa Gabor

You Gotta Have a Gimmick

A cocktail and a fag always worked for us.

Carny Girls

Lustre-Creme

For that radiant, immobile look.

We Present...

...the real "Greatest Show on Earth," starring Betty Hutton - The Hollywood Palace. Bouffants, safety gays, and sequins: what more could we ask for?

BETTY HUTTON
February 26, 1921 - March 11, 2007

Mad Hatters

Strip Tease

Shari Lewis

Lisa Kirk

Mae West (courtesy of DAMON DEVINE)

Betty Hutton

Frankly, we'd be more excited to see any of these dames than Cher.
And don't even get us started on Celine.

The Other B. Hutton

Whose life wasn't exactly a bowl of cherries, either.

Try to Remember

In the early 1970's, nostalgia suddenly became big business (not coincidentally, the concept of "camp" broke through the mainstream at the same time); big enough, in fact, that several decades past their heyday, even second-tier goddesses like Joan Blondell and Paulette Goddard were still considered famous enough to earn First Name Only status on the cover of Life.



What's so sad is that, even in today's retro-obsessed culture, where every lame duck television show is recycled into a multi-million-dollar flop motion picture, not a single modern-day youngster could name even one of these stars.

"Ruby who?!"