1. Benay Venuta is best known for her work in the mid and late 1930s, in which she parlayed her success on Broadway into star treatment on network radio.
12 Facts About Benay Venuta
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Benay Venuta attended finishing school in Geneva and lived in London where she worked as a dancer before returning to the States.
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Benay Venuta's father was English, and her mother was Swiss-Italian.
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Benay Venuta made her first screen appearance in the silent Trail of '98 in 1928.
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Benay Venuta appeared in Repeat Performance, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister, and Bullets Over Broadway.
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Benay Venuta is replaced here by a lookalike in the same clothes.
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Benay Venuta made her Broadway debut when she replaced Ethel Merman in the lead role of Reno Sweeney in Cole Porter's Anything Goes in 1935.
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Benay Venuta appeared on That Girl in a 1968 episode titled, "The Seventh Time Around," as Lady Margaret "Trixie" Weatherby.
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Benay Venuta married Kenneth Kelley on October 20,1935, in Ossining, New York.
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Benay Venuta had two daughters, Patty and Deborah, from her second marriage to film producer Armand Deutsch.
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Benay Venuta was married to character actor Fred Clark from 1952 to 1962.
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Benay Venuta died from lung cancer in New York City on September 1,1995, at age 85.