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Hutton Playtime in Hollywood - Boulevard 1960 This is a bit of an anomaly in the pantheon of Hutton Playtime spotting. Once again not quite Hollywood, being a classic French movie by auteur director Julien Duvivier. Boulevard tells the story of two brothers living in La Pigalle and their …
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Hutton Playtime in Hollywood - Sea of Sand 1958 This was perhaps the first movie where I ever noticed the Hutton Playtime. I’m a movie nut. When I was in my late teens and early twenties I would go several times a week to the Everyman or the Scala and sit through two or three movies at a stretch. …
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Hutton Playtime in Hollywood - The Blob 1958 Maybe the low budget element of Steve McQueen’s first real starring role feature (not counting The St Louis Bank Robbery, that is credited a year later and where he wore sneakers and not Playtime) gave Steve the urge to wear a lot of his own clothes. …
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Hutton Playtime in Hollywood - Wheel of Fate 1953 A very neat entry in our Hutton Playtime Hollywood Hall of Fame actually comes from the famous Riverside Studios, Hammersmith in London rather than Tinseltown. Anglo Ivy style man Bryan Forbes had not yet reached his apogee as a writer and …
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Hutton Playtime in Hollywood - Second Chorus 1940 The oldest of our representations of the Hutton Playtime in Hollywood, but a very, very clear one nonetheless. Here we have none other than Fred Astaire and the wonderful Burgess ‘The Penguin’ Meredith in this fun farce about two music students …
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Hutton Playtime in Hollywood - First in a Series Well, now that I’ve officially come out of the closet as the Weejun being behind the Hutton relaunch back in 2015, it seemed to be the right thing to do to take an in-depth look at the years of obsession I've had with the Hutton story. An …
