Red, Hot and Blue (1949)
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Taken (as far as possible) from the Cole Porter musical comedy of the same name, Red, Hot and Blue stars Betty Hutton as an ambitious chorus girl. Hutton gets a job with a musical comedy bankrolled by gangsters, and is the wrong girl at the wrong place when one of the show's backers (William Talman) is bumped off. She is arrested for suspicion of murder, then is kidnapped by the villains to keep her from spilling the beans. The plot requires that she be rescued by hero Victor Mature, though many disgruntled audience members may have been rooting for the boisterous Hutton to be dumped in the East River. The stage version of Red Hot and Blue starred Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope. Hutton is no Merman, but she gives her all to the brassy production numbers and the self-absorbed ballads--written not by Cole Porter, whose score was dispensed with, but by Paramount's in-house tunesmith Frank Loesser, who also plays a small role as one of the gangsters. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Betty Hutton - Eleanor Collier
- William Demarest - Charlie Baxter
- Jane Nigh - No-No
- William Talman - Bunny Harris
- Raymond Walburn - Mr. Creek
- Joseph Vitale - Carr
- Robert "Bobby" Watson - Barney Stratum
- Percy Helton - Stage manager
- Philip Van Zandt - Head waiter
- Don Shelton - Hamlet
- Dorothy Abbott - Queen
- James Cornell - Theatre group member
- Frank Alten - Karl Mueller
- Robert Kellard - Police switchboard operator
- Arlene Jenkins - Newspaper Woman
- Douglas Spencer - Theatre group member
- Joey Ray - Member of Theater Group
- Edward Peil Sr.
- Noel Neill - Theatre group member
- Paul Lees - Theatre group member
- Marie Thomas - Showgirl
- Bess Flowers - Woman
- Billy Daniels - Dancer
- Jimmie Dundee - Gangster
- Victor Mature - Denny James
- June Havoc - Sandra
- Frank Loesser - Hair-do Lempke
- Art Smith - Laddie Corwin
- Onslow Stevens - Capt. Allen
- Barry Kelley - Lt. Gorman
- Jack Kruschen - Steve
- Erno Verebes - Waiter
- Henry Guttman - Frankie
- Herschel Daugherty - Laertes
- Julia Faye - Housekeeper
- Betty Adams - Starlet
- James Burke - Doorman
- Tim Ryan - Stranger
- Jim Davies - Theatre group member
- Cyril Ring - Photographer
- Lee Phelps - Cop
- Jacquelyn Park - Showgirl
- Rita Lupino - Dance Team
- Harland Tucker - Saunders
- Al Ferguson - Piano tuner
- Douglas Carter - Piano Tuner
- Lester Dorr - Drug Store Manager
- Billy Engle - Piano tuner
- Director(s):
- John Farrow
- Writer(s):
- John Farrow, Hagar Wilde
- Producer(s):
- Robert M. Fellows
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