This week’s Time Out New York features my interview with Michael Lerner, author of Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City. For more on the book, here’s a link to Pete Hamill’s review in The New York Times Book Review.
Betty Hutton was considered “a brassy, energetic performer with a voice that could sound like a fire alarm,” but here’s a clip of the late chanteuse at a much different register:
For more characteristic mania, see Betty with Dinah Shore.
Betty Hutton, Film Star of ’40s and ’50s, Dies at 86 (NY Times)