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When Betty Hutton was the No. 1 female star at Paramount Pictures in the 1940s, Bob Hope called her "a vitamin pill with legs." She still is. Hutton, 79, gave up show business years ago for a quieter life in Rhode Island. But several times during a rollicking interview on "Private Screenings" (7 tonight, Turner Classic Movies), she looks like she's going to fly out of her chair. Hutton, an old friend of host Robert Osborne, carries on throughout the interview, sings bars from her more famous show tunes and tells tales on some of the greats she once worked for (working on a Preston Sturges film sounded like paid vacation). Following the program is a Hutton moviefest, starting aptly enough with "Incendiary Blonde." @ART CAPTION:Hutton @ART:Photo >>>