The feisty Betty Hutton did her best to try and elevate this sometimes funny but usually forced situation comedy as a big hearted manicurist who becomes guardian to orphaned rich kids. Like her movies, this depends on her frantic comedy to make its mark. The results are decidedly mixed. She is more ore than tolerable in movies but a weekly T.V. show would take a lot of patience for even her most tolerating fans. Tom Conway added some class as the family attorney and the young co-stars do their best not to be cloying. Norma Varden added an imperious nature in a fee episodes as the kids aunt but didn't stick around to become Hutton's foil. Hutton didn't get to sing which was another flaw. But when compared to the crap of television today, this is art in comparison. In the company of other similar sitcoms of the late 1950's, however it seems quite unremarkable.
Review of The Betty Hutton Show
