Hutton's motion picture debut was in The Crimson Stain (1913), a three-reel drama short, opposite Frank Borzage and Edward Coxen.
[citation needed] She also acted in films made by Broncho, Domino, Kay Bee, David Horsley, and New York Motion Picture Corporation studios.
[1] Her final role was as Beth Taylor in The Man Who Would Not Die (1916), a feature length drama starring Russell, who also directed with Jack Prescott at Flying "A" Studios, Santa Barbara, California.
During World War I, Hutton served overseas with the American and French Red Cross.
She died in an iron lung in Maumee Hospital in Toledo, Ohio, eighteen hours after she was discovered by her husband.