Betty Hutton became famous as a singer and an actress in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. But long before that, she was born in Battle Creek with dreams of making it big. The Battle Creek Regional ...

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. She was 86. The death was confirmed Monday by a ...

Hutton was at the top of the heap when she walked out of her Paramount contract in 1952, reportedly in a dispute over her demand that her then-husband direct her films. She made only one movie after ...