Word: bettye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty Hutton, loose-jointed, incendiary blonde (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), was told that she had cracked three ribs after being tossed by a team of acrobats during the filming of Incendiary Blonde.
Musicals which display a lot of beautiful, rounded female flesh are preferred by the troops. Favorite actresses: Lana Turner, Betty Grable, Maria Montez. In the case of these three, the plot and the vintage of the picture do not matter. Least favored of all: war movies.
Miracle of Morgan's Creek (William Demarest, Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken; TIME, Feb. 14).
Morgan's Creek is the home town of Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton), a daftly endearing innocent who gradually remembers one morning that she married a transient soldier the night before-his name was something, she recalls, like Private Ratzkywatzsky. Presently she also realizes that she is pregnant. Fond as...
"Bouncing Betty" and "Leaping Lena" are names for the Nazi S-mine. No bigger than a quart-size tin can, it is buried close to the surface. When it is tripped it leaps five feet into the air, then explodes in a spray of steel in all directions.