Benita Hume

Benita Hume

Born: October 14, 1906
Died: November 1, 1967
in London, England, UK
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Benita Hume (14 October 1906 – 1 November 1967) was an English film actress. She appeared in 44 films between 1925 and 1955. She was married to actor Ronald Colman from 1938 to his death in 1958. She starred with Colman in both versions of the situation comedy The Halls of Ivy, an NBC Radio program (1949–1952) and a CBS Television show (1954–1955). She also made occasional guest appearances with her husband on The Jack Benny Show on radio, where the Colmans were portrayed as Benny's long-suffering next-door neighbors. She was also married to actor George Sanders from 1959 to her death in 1967. She died in Egerton, Kent, England from bone cancer at age 61.

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Title: The Halls of Ivy
Released: October 19, 1954
Type: TV
The Halls of Ivy is an NBC radio sitcom that ran from 1950-1952. It was created by Fibber McGee & Molly co-creator/writer Don Quinn before being adapted into a CBS television comedy produced by ITC Entertainment and Television Programs of America. British husband-and-wife actors Ronald Colman and Benita Hume starred in both versions of the show. Quinn developed the show after he had decided to leave Fibber McGee & Molly in the hands of his protégé Phil Leslie. The Halls of Ivy's audition program featured radio veteran Gale Gordon and Edna Best in the roles that ultimately went to the Colmans, who demonstrated a flair for radio comedy during the late 1940s recurring roles on The Jack Benny Program.
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Title: Four Star Playhouse
Character: Mrs. Bosanquent
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: TV
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
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Title: The Jack Benny Program
Character: Benita Hume
Released: October 28, 1950
Type: TV
Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.
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Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
Title: Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
Character: Myrna Daro
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
Trouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and before long their antics are causing the circus owner all kinds of problems.
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Title: The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Character: Lady Kitty Winton
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.
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Rainbow on the River
Title: Rainbow on the River
Character: Julia Layton
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
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Tarzan Escapes
Title: Tarzan Escapes
Character: Rita Parker
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
White hunter Captain Fry tries to take Tarzan back to civilization, caged for public display. He arrives in the jungle with Jane's cousins, Eric and Rita, who want Jane's help in claiming a fortune left her.
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Suzy
Title: Suzy
Character: Madame Eyrelle
Released: July 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife's first husband is still alive.
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Moonlight Murder
Title: Moonlight Murder
Character: Diana
Released: March 27, 1936
Type: Movie
An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.
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The Garden Murder Case
Title: The Garden Murder Case
Character: Nurse Gladys Beeton
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie
Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major Fenwicke-Ralston.
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The Gay Deception
Title: The Gay Deception
Character: Miss Cordelia Channing
Released: September 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
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The Divine Spark
Title: The Divine Spark
Character: Giuditta Pasta
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.
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18 Minutes
Title: 18 Minutes
Character: Lady Phyllis Pilcott
Released: April 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall submit without question to his will - is applied with unseeing kindness to an orphan girl whom the lion tamer adopts.
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Jew Süss
Title: Jew Süss
Character: Marie Auguste
Released: October 13, 1934
Type: Movie
A historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger, Jew Süss is the story of life in the 18th century Jewish ghetto of Württemberg. Süss (Veidt) works himself out of the ghetto and into a position of power himself with the help of an evil Duke.
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The Private Life of Don Juan
Title: The Private Life of Don Juan
Character: Dona Dolores, a Lady of Mystery
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
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The Worst Woman in Paris?
Title: The Worst Woman in Paris?
Character: Margaret Ann 'Peggy' Vane
Released: December 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Tired of being tired and scandalized in gossip columns, she leaves Menjou for a trip to the US. Barely surviving a Midwest train wreck, she becomes a local hero after injuring herself while saving a baby's life. While recovering at the home of the headmaster of a boy's school and his family, her veneer of oversophistications melts away and she finds herself fancying the small town life.
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Only Yesterday
Title: Only Yesterday
Character: Phyllis Emerson
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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Gambling Ship
Title: Gambling Ship
Character: Eleanor La Velle
Released: June 23, 1933
Type: Movie
Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On the train, he meets Eleanor and they fall in love. Eleanor is afraid to tell Ace she's a soiled dove and Ace doesn't tell Eleanor of his shady past. Old enemies won't let Ace begin his new life, and old commitments's won't free Eleanor of her sordid ties. Ace's old life and Eleanor's deception collide with the typical results. But love conquers all!
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Looking Forward
Title: Looking Forward
Character: Mrs. Isobel Service
Released: April 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.
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Clear All Wires!
Title: Clear All Wires!
Character: Kate Nelson
Released: February 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.
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Discord
Title: Discord
Character: Phil Stenning
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A struggling composer has to be supported financially by his wealthier wife.
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The Little Damozel
Title: The Little Damozel
Character: Sybil Craven
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub.
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Lord Camber's Ladies
Title: Lord Camber's Ladies
Character: Janet King
Released: October 27, 1932
Type: Movie
In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out of the marriage. The distraught woman then leaves her shop to become a nurse. Trouble ensues when the actress suddenly appears, accuses the nurse of fooling around with her husband and dies leaving the nurse and the husband to be charged with murder. Fortunately, they are found innocent and they are free to fall in love at last.
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Sally Bishop
Title: Sally Bishop
Character: Evelyn Standish
Released: October 17, 1932
Type: Movie
A British romantic drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter
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Men of Steel
Title: Men of Steel
Character: Audrey Paxton
Released: September 1, 1932
Type: Movie
James Harg and his father work in a steelmaking plant which is incompetently run, with scant attention being paid to worker safety. In his own time, Harg works on ideas for a revolutionary new manufacturing process for hard steel. When his father is badly injured in a workplace accident resulting from employer negligence, Harg uses some of the compensation payment to develop his invention to a stage where it can be tested in practice. It is a huge success and Harg patents his process. He rises to a position on the board of the company, before staging a coup to oust his former employer and take over the business himself.
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Diamond Cut Diamond
Title: Diamond Cut Diamond
Character: Marda Blackett
Released: August 17, 1932
Type: Movie
One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.
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Help Yourself
Title: Help Yourself
Character: Mary Lamb
Released: March 21, 1932
Type: Movie
British comedy directed by John Daumery ...
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Women Who Play
Title: Women Who Play
Character: Margaret Sones
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
In order to deter his wife from having an affair a man hires an actress as part of an elaborate scheme.
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Service for Ladies
Title: Service for Ladies
Character: Countess Ricardi
Released: January 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince to win her love. In this venture, he is aided by Mr. Westlake, a Ruritanian monarch who owes him a favour. When Sylvia discovers Max's deception, she is appalled, but the situation is resolved when her father tells her that he was once a hotel dishwasher.
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The Happy Ending
Title: The Happy Ending
Character: Yvonne
Released: October 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A father who deserted his family some years before returns home only to find that his wife has told his children and neighbours that he died as a hero.
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A Honeymoon Adventure
Title: A Honeymoon Adventure
Character: Eve Martin
Released: September 21, 1931
Type: Movie
An exciting tale of international crooks and stolen plans, in which an inventor is kidnapped by foreign agents whilst honeymooning in Scotland.
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The Flying Fool
Title: The Flying Fool
Character: Marion Lee
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman's Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he suspects of smuggling drugs into Britain from France on a regular basis. Floyd has so far struggled to gain evidence on Marlowe, but through a series of incidents finds himself bound for Paris on the same plane as Marlowe.....
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Symphony in Two Flats
Title: Symphony in Two Flats
Character: Lesley Fullerton
Released: July 16, 1930
Type: Movie
A young composer goes blind, and shortly afterward enters his most recent work in a competition. He believes he's won, but doesn't know that his wife couldn't bear to tell him that he didn't. Complications ensue.
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The House of the Arrow
Title: The House of the Arrow
Character: Betty Harlow
Released: March 24, 1930
Type: Movie
In France, an inspector solves the poisoning of his rich aunt.
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The Wrecker
Title: The Wrecker
Character: Mary Shelton
Released: July 16, 1929
Type: Movie
The Wrecker is a British film that tells the story of a crook who organises train crashes to discredit the railway, in favour of a rival bus company. The stunts in this film were groundbreaking for 1920s British cinema A scene wich has been discribed as "the most spectacular rail crash in cinema history" was recorded by 22 cameras.
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High Treason
Title: High Treason
Character: Evelyn Seymour
Released: March 25, 1929
Type: Movie
The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.
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The Clue of the New Pin
Title: The Clue of the New Pin
Character: Ursula Ardfern
Released: March 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A wealthy recluse is murdered in an absolutely sealed room.
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The Lady of the Lake
Title: The Lady of the Lake
Character: The Lady of the Lake
Released: December 8, 1928
Type: Movie
In 15th century Scotland, a woman of an outlaw clan tries to rescue both her father and her lover when they're captured by the king's men.
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A South Sea Bubble
Title: A South Sea Bubble
Character: Averil Rochester
Released: August 3, 1928
Type: Movie
'Girl reporter and insane fiancé join pirate's descendant in treasure hunt.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Balaclava
Title: Balaclava
Character: Jean McDonald
Released: June 6, 1928
Type: Movie
A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which results in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade to take the Balaclava Heights.
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Easy Virtue
Title: Easy Virtue
Character: Telephone Receptionist (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1928
Type: Movie
Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's secret.
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The Constant Nymph
Title: The Constant Nymph
Character: Antonia Sanger
Released: February 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a longstanding friend of the family, falls in love with their cousin Florence when she comes to take the girls back to England. But little Tessa Sanger is in love with Lewis herself, and when she runs away from school and comes to live with Florence and her husband, their already-shaky marriage is further undermined
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A Light Woman
Title: A Light Woman
Character: Dolores de Vargas
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Concerns a young woman who embarks on a series of love affairs. Originally around 100 minutes, only a 23 minute, 9.5mm cut-down version is known to survive today, held by the BFI.
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The Happy Ending
Title: The Happy Ending
Character: Miss Moon
Released: January 2, 1925
Type: Movie
A wastrel returns to blackmail his wife who has told her children that he died a hero.