Donna Butterworth, a charming child actress and singer in the 1960s who co-starred with Elvis Presley in Paradise, Hawaiian Style and with Jerry Lewis in The Family Jewels, has died.
She was 62.Butterworth died March 6 at the Hilo Medical Center in Hilo, Hawaii, after a long, unspecified illness, Guadalupe Erece Jr., funeral director at Dodo Mortuary and Crematory, told The Hollywood Reporter.In Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966), Butterworth, then just 10, performed three songs: “Datin’,” “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home” and “Queen Wahine’s Papaya.” The last is a lovely duet with a ukulele-strumming Elvis that gets…
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