Benay Venuta was an American dancer, born in 1911 in San Francisco, who died in 1995.
Biography
Benay Venuta (born Benvenuta Rose Crooke; January 27, 1910 – September 1, 1995) was an American actress, singer and dancer. She 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. After World War II, she developed an enduring career as a supporting actress in musicals on stage and in Hollywood, interspersed with work on television.
Contemporaries
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