Betty Hutton - Do You Know About Swinging video free download

John M

What a spark plug Betty Hutton was! Always fun to watch her do a number.

wjm41259

more perfection from the peerless betty hutton

Roger Steinbrink

She was just the best....

patricksname

@bettygoodbody Sorry honey but you are a bit behind the times, those girls are positively skinny compared to the fat bottoms you see in music videos these days.

bettygoodbody

i am a hetero female who did a bit of tap a million years ago, now almost a senior, but i must say these girls have wonderful and sexy figures, they put the ones with the biggest legs in front. not like nowadays with Q tip bodies.the moves look more sexy too.that skinny stuff started in the sixties. eh, they need to go back to curves

bettygoodbody

watch the birdie, thats the martha raye song.and the hellzapoppin movie is really cool

bettygoodbody

oh, martha raye, did you see her in hellzapoppin? when she sings the smile for the camera song, and those legs, long thin dancers legs. but the betty thing, well, betty is special. thats sweet where you say you want to kiss her. look, fake black people !

flan453

Thank you for posting this great excerpt !

tomkellycartoons

@Caocao8888 Oh, gosh! Thank you for your perspective. I, too, always thought it was just "entertainment" (if in questionable taste) but...much as I abhor racism or hatred of any kind against ANYone, I always thought I saw a bit of innocence in this kind of thing. This in no way affects my horror of true hateful images and remarks.

tomkellycartoons

@SSArcher11 Oh, MIss Martha Raye....absolutely!!! I used to see her in Laguna Beach in the early 70s...drunk out of her gorgeous mind, surrounded by her equally gorgeous gay guys...at a place called The Little Shrimp....and having a ball.

SSArcher11

If you could make an all-time cheerleading squad, she would have to be on it. Who else? Maybe Martha Raye?

hebneh

I assume the "plot" of this short musical film was some sort of dream sequence - or maybe these people were all characters from the various books which were in the background on the oversized shelf that also had the giant electric fan on the right. Come to think of it, some of the Warner Bros. cartoons used this same situation, and so perhaps this was a live-action version of one of those cartoons.

shazzaman1

today stereotyping happens fromthere own people

stanykb

@Caocao8888 Hardly ludicrous when Betty Grable is a white woman in blackface portraying a "pickaninny" with a chorus surrounded by giant watermelons. That is racist. It was intended in its time to be entertaining, but seen today it is racist, it is exploiting stereotypes. I say again that it was part of the mindset at the time and It was not malicious, but if done today it would be unacceptable.

Caocao8888

@stanykb Racism is a state of mind, an attitude of hate. Blackface in entertainment is an example of what Hollywood artists do. They come up with creative imagery. We're not talking about Nazi propaganda films here. When I see Hollywood's artistic interpretation of my own minority group, I might laugh or chuckle, but I take it for what it was meant to be: entertainment! Your perception of Betty Grable's blackface performance in "Dolly Sisters" as an example of racism is ludicrous.

stanykb

Blackface and minstrel shows were part of a tradition that went back to the 1800s. Of course it is very racist, but the people making musicals then were barely removed from the vaudeville tradition. Sadly the world wasn't where it is today. (It wasn't about blacks not being able to work in films. 4 years before this Shirley Temple danced with Bill Robinson.) Judy Garland did minstrel blackface in this tradition in two movies. Betty Grable's blackface in "Dolly Sisters" is much more racist.

champagnevoluptuous

OHHH MYYY.... How racist is that?? I'm stunned. I can't even bring myself to enjoy this now. Disturbing.

Danielle Powell

it was a very big thing in vaudeville acts and it came to the screen for those type of performances, it was meant to emphasize their lips not to show they were white ...it is highly offensive now, but we know better than they did :) i don't think anyone would dare do that now

AlexandraKuhne

As far as I know, they used to paint white men black (black people weren't allowed to work on films) and left the area around theire mouth without colour for people to see that they where really white and not black. That was back then. And to the movie: LOOOOOOVE BETTY!!!!

iamlovedbysomeone

In heels never the less!