Caption: Betty Hutton is down on her luck again. The former movie actress was hospitalized over the weekend in North Tarrytown, N.Y., with a bronchial ailment. Life has been full of ups and downs for bouncy Betty in the last year. After she was discovered working as a housekeeper in a Catholic rectory she was feted by her old friends, announced plans for a comeback and then plummeted again from public view. There was no indication how long she would be hospitalized.Betty Hutton, the ?blonde bombshell? of stage and screen who surfaced in a church rectory last spring, has been hospitalized for ?complete emotional breakdown.? The Rev. James Hamilton of St. Anthony?s Church in Portsmouth, R.I., said that Miss Hutton, 53, was committed at Butler Hospital in Providence by her psychiatrist. She is shown at the church n April, 1974.
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