Benita Hume


Benita Hume was an English theatre and film actress. She appeared in more than 40 films from 1925 to 1955.

Life and career

She was married to film actor Ronald Colman from 1938 to his death in 1958; they were the parents of a daughter, Juliet. She starred with Colman in both versions of the situation comedy The Halls of Ivy, an NBC Radio programme and a CBS Television show. She also made occasional guest appearances with her husband on The Jack Benny Show on radio, and the Colmans were portrayed as Benny's long-suffering next-door neighbours, roles they reprised once on his television show.
After Colman's death, she married actor George Sanders in 1959, and they remained together until her death in 1967. Sanders originally was signed to play Sheridan Whiteside in the musical Sherry!, but when Hume became terminally ill with cancer, he withdrew from the project. Hume died in Kent from bone cancer at age 60.

Filmography

Film credits

The Happy Ending as Miss MoonSecond to None as InaThe Constant Nymph as Antonia SangerEasy Virtue as Telephone Receptionist Balaclava as Jean McDonaldA South Sea Bubble - Averil RochesterA Light Woman as Dolores de VargasThe Lady of the Lake as The Lady of the LakeHigh Treason as Evelyn SeymourThe Clue of the New Pin as Ursula ArdfernThe Wrecker as Mary SheltonThe House of the Arrow as Betty HarlowSymphony in Two Flats as Lesley Fullerton The Flying Fool as Marion LeeA Honeymoon Adventure as Eve MartinThe Happy Ending as YvonneService for Ladies as Countess RicardiWomen Who Play as Margaret SonesHelp Yourself as Mary LambDiamond Cut Diamond as Marda BlackettMen of Steel as Audrey PaxtonSally Bishop as Evelyn StandishLord Camber's Ladies as Janet KingDiscord as Phil StenningThe Little Damozel as Sybil CravenClear All Wires! as KateLooking Forward as Mrs. Isobel ServiceGambling Ship as Eleanor La VelleOnly Yesterday as Phyllis EmersonThe Worst Woman in Paris? as Margaret Ann 'Peggy' VaneThe Private Life of Don Juan as Dona Dolores, a Lady of MysteryJew Suss as Marie Auguste18 Minutes as Lady Phyllis PilcottThe Divine Spark as Giuditta PastaThe Gay Deception as Miss ChanningThe Garden Murder Case as Nurse BeetonMoonlight Murder as DianaSuzy as Diane EyrelleTarzan Escapes as Rita ParkerRainbow on the River as Julia LaytonThe Last of Mrs. Cheyney as Kitty WyntonPeck's Bad Boy with the Circus as Myrna Daro

Television credits

Four Star Playhouse as Mrs. BosanquentThe Halls of Ivy as Victoria Cromwell 'Vicky' Hall

Selected stage credits

London Life by Arnold Bennett Chance Acquaintance by John Van Druten