Red, Hot and Blue (film)
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Red, Hot and Blue is a 1949 musical comedy film starring Betty Hutton
Betty Hutton
Betty Hutton was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedienne and singer.-Early life:Hutton was born Elizabeth June Thornburg, daughter of a railroad foreman, Percy E. Thornburg and his wife, the former Mabel Lum . While she was very young, her father abandoned the family for...

 as an actress who gets mixed up with gangsters and murder. It has no connection to Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...

's play of the same name
Red, Hot and Blue
Red, Hot and Blue is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter and the book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1936 and introduced the popular song, "It's De-Lovely" sung by Ethel Merman.-Synopsis:...

. Frank Loesser
Frank Loesser
Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and scores to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for...

 wrote the songs and also acted in the film.

Cast

  • Betty Hutton as Eleanor Collier
  • Victor Mature
    Victor Mature
    Victor John Mature was an American stage, film and television actor.-Early life:Mature was born in Louisville, Kentucky to an Italian-speaking father from the town Pinzolo, in the Italian part of the former County of Tyrol , Marcello Gelindo Maturi, later Marcellus George Mature, a cutler,...

     as Danny James
  • William Demarest
    William Demarest
    Carl William Demarest was an American character actor. He frequently played crusty but good-hearted roles.-Early life and career:...

     as Charlie Baxter
  • June Havoc
    June Havoc
    June Havoc was a Canadian-born American actress, dancer, writer, and theater director. Havoc was a child Vaudeville performer under the tutelage of her mother. She later acted on Broadway and in Hollywood and stage directed . She last appeared on television in 1990 on General Hospital...

     as Sandra
  • Jane Nigh
    Jane Nigh
    Bonnie Lenora "Jane" Nigh was an American actress. She was discovered in 1944 by Arthur Wenzler while working in a defense plant. She later signed a contract with Fox Studios. She appeared in movies such as Give My Regards to Broadway and Sitting Pretty...

     as Angelica Roseanne
  • Frank Loesser as Hair-do Lempke
  • William Talman as Bunny Harris
  • Art Smith as Laddie Corwin
  • Raymond Walburn
    Raymond Walburn
    Raymond Walburn was an American character actor who appeared in dozens of Hollywood comedies and an occasional dramatic role during the 1930s and 1940s.-Life and career:...

     as Alex Ryan Creek
  • Onslow Stevens
    Onslow Stevens
    Onslow Stevens was an American stage, television and film actor.-Career:Born Onslow Ford Stevenson in Los Angeles, California, he was the son of character actor Housley Stevenson...

     as Captain Allen
  • Barry Kelley
    Barry Kelley
    Barry Kelley was an actor on Broadway in the 1930s and '40s and in movies during the 1940s, '50s, and '60s. The heavy-set actor created the role of Ike in Oklahoma! on Broadway....

     as Lieutenant Gorman
  • Jack Kruschen
    Jack Kruschen
    Jack Kruschen was a Canadian-born character actor who worked primarily in American film, television and radio.-Radio:...

     as Steve
  • Joseph Vitale as Carr
  • Percy Helton
    Percy Helton
    Percy Helton was an American film and television actor.One of his most memorable supporting roles was playing a drunken Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street. He also appeared in small but memorable roles in Criss Cross , The Set-Up , Kiss Me Deadly and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid...

     as Mr. Perkins
  • Ernö Verebes as Waiter
  • Philip Van Zandt
    Philip Van Zandt
    Philip "Phil" Van Zandt was a Dutch actor of film, stage and television. He made over 220 film and television appearances between 1939 and 1958.-Career:...

     as Louie
  • Henry Guttman as Frankie
  • Don Shelton as Hamlet
  • Herschel Daugherty
    Herschel Daugherty
    Herschel Daugherty was an American television and film director and occasional actor.-Career:Born in Clarks Hill, Indiana, Daugherty directed various episodes of popular television shows such as Gunsmoke , Alfred Hitchcock Presents , Crusader , and Wagon Train...

     as Laertes
  • Dorothy Abbott
    Dorothy Abbott
    Dorothy Abbott was an American actress.-Career:Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Abbott appeared in many films between the 1940s and 1960s as an extra. In Las Vegas she was a showgirl at the Flamingo Hotel and was known as "the girl with the golden arm"...

     as The Queen
  • Julia Faye
    Julia Faye
    Julia Faye was a motion picture actress from Richmond, Virginia.-Career overview:Faye had resided in St. Louis, Missouri prior to coming to Hollywood in 1916, to visit friends. She visited one of the film studios and was introduced to Christy Cabanne. The two reminisced about St...

    as Julia
  • John Marchak as Guard
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