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...Ardant fans. Though little more than a pretty face in French theater and television three years ago, she has recently starred in a new movie for Alain Resnais, has done a second one with Truffaut, and has two more in the works. Last week she finished filming Benvenuta in Belgium, and next week in Italy she starts Sun and Night. Not bad for a relative newcomer. But Ardant wants to return to the stage. "Because I love the word," says she. "I love the music of the word. In the theater, I want to sing, I want to fly." Fine...
After the press conference in the ship's salon, she descended the steep gangplank, and on the pier waved a white-gloved hand to acknowledge cheers and shouts of welcome ("Benvenuta, Mrs. Luce!"). Then she and her husband Henry R. Luce, editor of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE, got into a U.S. embassy Chrysler for the 150-mile trip to Rome. As the car wheeled into Naples' streets, a clatter of applause and cheers rose from a crowd of more than 1,000 Neapolitans who had lined the square outside the port area in hopes of catching a glimpse...
Trumpet-voiced Benay Venuta (real name: Benvenuta Crooke) had come a long way from the San Francisco wharfside where she sang in the '20s. She has had a Broadway career (as a sort of second-run Ethel Merman) and a few big scenes in the movies. This week, at 36, Benay will step up to a microphone and a new career in radio as quizzer on a parents v. children stunt called Keeping Up with the Kids (Sat. 8:30 p.m. E.S.T., Mutual). The show calls for no singing, but that's all right with Benay. "I hope...
...Married. Benvenuta Rose Crooke Kelley (Benay Venuta), 27, Broadwayfaring songstress and comedienne (Anything Goes, Kiss the Boys Good-Bye); and Armand S. Deutsch Jr., 27, Manhattan adman; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
Divorced. Benvenuta Rose Crooke Kelley, 27 (stage name: Benay Venuta), blonde, brass-lunged songstress and comedienne (Anything Goes, Kiss the Boys Good-Bye); by Dr. Kenneth Kelley, 34, Manhattan psychiatrist; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty...