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2 unusual facts about One Touch of Venus


Albert Pratz

He was also associate conductor for the musical One Touch of Venus.

One Touch of Venus

One Touch of Venus is a musical with music written by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ogden Nash, and book by S. J. Perelman and Nash, based on the novella The Tinted Venus by Thomas Anstey Guthrie, and very loosely spoofing the Pygmalion myth.


Pearl Argyle

She married the German-born film director Curtis Bernhardt in 1936 and moved with him to the United States in 1938, where she performed in several Broadway musicals including One Touch of Venus (1943) by Kurt Weill and Agnes de Mille, but chose not to pursue her film career.


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