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Article: Obituary: Benay Venuta
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 16, 1995
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"I have eyes for you to give you dirty looks. / I have words
that do not come from children's books. / There's a trick with a
knife I'm learning to do, / And ev'rything I've got belongs to
you!"
Benay Venuta and Roy Bolger sang "Ev'rything I've Got" in
Rodgers and Hart's last new Broadway show, By Jupiter (1942).
Lorenz Hart had promised to write a number to show off Venuta's
rafter- rocking voice. "And he did," she told Frederick Nolan for
his recent biography of Hart. "He wrote 'Ev'rything I've Got' while
we were in rehearsal, and it turned out to be one of the smash hits
of the show."
Although born in San Francisco, Venuta was educated in
Switzerland, returning to California to join the ...