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...when practically all the Paramount players who could be rounded up stage a benefit show. The acts, stronger on noise than on finesse, reach some sort of climax in Cass Daley's confident rendition of You Can't Blame a Gal for Tryin'. Best acts: Betty Hutton singing The Hard Way in self-explanation to a psychoanalyst; Eddie Bracken suffering superbly as a double in a horse opera; Robert Benchley showing Bing Crosby's four young sons an illustrated biography of their father...
...Hollywood, where marriages wither even faster than reputations, a spoiled little rich girl named Barbara Hutton dropped Husband No. 3 last week. The whole thing took four minutes. She would have made it in three, if she had not taken time out to pose for the news photographers...
...hostesses), whose battle cry ("Hello, sucker!") might be carved on a monument to the 1920's. Incendiary Blonde is not such a monument. It is a brassy synthesis of color, song and dance, spattered with laughs, sniffles and melodrama, and brought to life chiefly by vigorous, charming Betty Hutton. In its own way, it is a rather likable show...
...Barbara Hutton Grant, five-&-dime heiress, surprise-partied her newlywed personal maid and chauffeur at her Bel-Air, Calif, estate with a guest list of 50 chefs, valets, butlers, maids. Cinemactor Gary Grant, the hostess' estranged husband, sent his valet with a check for the happy couple. Hit of the evening-aside from the mistress' serving-was the little performance of sleight-of-hand tricks by Edwards, butler to Lady Mendl. "Miss Hutton did practically everything but wash the dishes," observed one breathless, gratified guest. The party over, "Miss Hutton" and her house guest, the Baroness de Rothschild...
...plot is complex at first glance; but it really doesn't amount to much. Betty Hutton starts out as twin sisters; one who is an ardent Bing Crosby fan, and the other who thinks him an annoying crooner. Bing, as a sobbing singer--genus Sinatraensis--falls for the twin who will have none of him. In the course of action the Waves get both Betty Huttons, Bing gets the sensible sister, and the bobby-sock twin gets left with Sonny Tufts, who doesn't seem to care...