I remember her best in the 1944 Preston Sturges classic, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, but she is probably better known for her musical roles, especially the title role in Annie Get Your Gun.
Hutton lived in Palm Springs in her last years. She had many personal problems at the peak of her popularity, and, like Louise Brooks, wound up in total obscurity for years, but like Brooks, didn't let the end of her career become the end of her life.
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But her personal life was rocky at times, including four failed marriages, financial problems and difficulties between her and her three daughters. In a 1980 AP interview, Hutton said she had kicked a 20-year addiction to pills. ``Uppers, downers, inners, outers, I took everything I could get my hands on,'' she said.
She credited a Rhode Island priest, the Rev. Peter Maguire, with befriending her and turning her life around. She converted to Roman Catholicism. In 1986, she earned a liberal arts degree from Salve Regina College, in Newport, R.I., commenting that she liked college because ``the kids studying there accepted me as one of them.''
``Practically all the stars are in trouble,'' she recalled telling the priests she met in Rhode Island. ``You happen to see me talking honestly to you. It's a nightmare out there! It hurts what we do in our private lives.''
When Maguire died in 1996, she said, ``It was just so painful to me, I couldn't handle it. My kids all live in California, so I decided to come back here.''
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Mayor Newsom's girlfriend needs to keep her mouth shut.
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