Betty Hutton (as "Eleanor") slams Frank Loesser's Shakespeare novelty number "Hamlet," showing off for a "big Broadway producer!" in John Farrow's comic-mystery-musical Red, Hot and Blue, 1949. watch
Eleanor (Betty Hutton) launches into her back story, featuring roommates (June Havoc, Jane Nigh), boyfriend (Victor Mature) and Frank Loesser's punchy "I Wake Up," in an early scene from Red, Hot and Blue, 1949. watch
Credits and unusual opening scene with star Betty Hutton a hostage of gangsters (led by composer Frank Loeser as "HairDo Lempke"), from John Farrow's Red, Hot and Blue, 1949, co-starring Victor Mature. watch