(My Travels with) Agnes Moorehead – The Lavender Lady

About the Book

Everyone in the world wants to be happy. Right? Now what if I found the easy way to happiness and passed it on. Wouldn’t that be a classic contribution to mankind?

Well, I did find it and anyone can do it. The three essentials for progress in life are good health, someone who loves you and a potful of money. Those I can’t guarantee but my exclusive, unique way to happiness has been proven by me over the years and I have seen others do the same. A crackpot, you say. Perhaps, but it worked.

Ready. You clone yourself. Definitely a crackpot, you say. No, listen. I became a great admirer of actress Agnes Moorehead. I earned my way into her good graces and besides living my own active life, responded to all her victories, defeats, temperaments, exultations, happiness, depression, all the human emotions

About the Author

Quint Benedetti is named after his father Quinto, an Italian immigrant from Lucca, Italy. At age of two, he amazingly identifies song titles or phonograph records correctly. At age six, he is already a soloist in the St. Vincent de Paul church choir and began performing at local benefits, banquets, and lodge halls. In 1943, he joined the US Navy, and while in boot camp training there, he sang his final performance on the US Navy Hour Network radio show. He was assigned to the 7th Fleet aboard USS Orestes, a PT tender, in the South Pacific. During the invasion of Mindoro Island, the ship was bombed and hit by a Japanese kamikaze plane on December 30, 1944. He was awarded three battle stars and an honorable discharge in 1946 for his outstanding service in the Philippine invasions of Leyte Gulf, Mindoro, and Luzon in WWII. Benedetti attended Ohio State University and married in 1948, with four children, seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. He was employed in Pennsylvania Railroad and later resumed writing songs with Dick Scher. Both were rewarded for their renewed creative efforts. In 1963, he moved to California and became the personal manager/publicist and traveling stage/lighting director of Agnes Moorehead. He produced and released a long-playing Memorial record album of the actress’ show on Quinto Records. Benedetti met Mae West who loved and recorded his Christmas novelty “Put the Loot in the Boot, Santa” which is still a seasonal favorite internationally. He enrolled in the late Lehman Engel’s ASCAP Musical Comedy workshop where “TOPSY or Sorry About That Harriett”, an all-black musical fable (a work in progress) was conceived, followed by a six-week equity-waiver production at the Pilot Theatre in Hollywood in 1984. This Broadway-bound musical is presently being readied for another production. Quint was employed at Universal Film Studio in publicity/communication department in Universal City CA for 7 seven years prior to his early semi-retirement.