Having always found Betty Hutton a tad manic in lieu of talented I've just watched two of her movies that caused me to revise my opinion, first off, Here Come The Waves, in which she pulled off a dual role as twins and then Incendiary Blonde, an alleged bio-pic of Texas Guinan that fits where it touches. Hutton was a natural and probably the only choice to portray the larger-than-life personality but it's as if once the producers realized Hutton was made for the role they threw out the facts of Guinan's life, gave Hutton her head and stood back to count the take so that instead of the three times married real Guinan we get Hutton as a one-woman man who waits nun-like for her true love to claim her - which he never does. In 1945 no one was going to let out a squawk about facts as long as the leading lady delivered which she did in spades. Recommended.
Review of Incendiary Blonde
