Betty Hutton, who died Sunday in Palm Springs at 86, brought frenetic “whoop and holler” song-and-dance skills to a string of Hollywood roles in the 1940s and 1950s, notably as Annie Oakley in “Annie ...

Let’s Dance (Paramount) teams Fred Astaire with Betty Hutton in a talky musicomedy that takes its plot too seriously and its stars’ special talents too lightly. As a war widow fighting her husband’s ...