Equally covered was her sometime combative, sometimes pathetic but perpetually percolating relationship with fellow star shooter Frank Butler (Howard Keel and his booming bass pipes).
Hutton’s brash and boisterous performance, literally eating the camera at points, sells and saves the movie that was plagued with issues, including original director Busby Berkeley being fired, Judy Garland having to step away from the role of Annie due to health issues, and the original Buffalo Bill, Frank Morgan (“The Wizard of Oz”) dying during the production.
As critical to Hutton’s giddy performance was, Berlin’s unending stream of classics such as “Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly,” “The Girl That I Marry,” “Anything You Can Do” and the absolute showstopper “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” making this musical one of the most memorable in the history of the genre.