Benita Hume

Benita Hume
from The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
Born	(1906-10-14)14 October 1906 London, England, UK
Died	1 November 1967(1967-11-01) (aged 61) Egerton, Lancashire, England
Cause of death	Bone cancer
Resting place	Lathrop Hill Cemetery, Bolton, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1925–1956
Spouses	Eric Siepmann (div. 1929) Ronald Colman ​ ​ (m. 1938; died 1958)​ George Sanders ​ (m. 1959)​
Children	1

Benita Hume (14 October 1906 – 1 November 1967) was an English film actress. She appeared in 44 films between 1925 and 1955.

Life and career

She was married to 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 (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 neighbours, a role they reprised once on his television show. After Ronald Colman's death, she married actor George Sanders in 1959 and they remained together until her death in 1967.

Death

George 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 Egerton, Lancashire from bone cancer at the age of 61.

Filmography

• The Happy Ending (1925)
• Second to None (1927)
• The Constant Nymph (1928)
• Easy Virtue (1928)
• High Treason (1928)
• The Lady of the Lake (1928)
• A Light Woman (1928)
• A South Sea Bubble (1928)
• Balaclava (1928)
• The Clue of the New Pin (1929)
• The Wrecker (1929)
• Symphony in Two Flats (1930)
• The House of the Arrow (1930)
• The Happy Ending (1931)
• A Honeymoon Adventure (1931)
• The Flying Fool (1931)
• Service for Ladies (1932)
• Help Yourself (1932)
• Women Who Play (1932)
• Diamond Cut Diamond (1932)
• Sally Bishop (1932)
• Lord Camber's Ladies (1932)
• Men of Steel (1932)
• Discord (1933)
• The Little Damozel (1933)
• Clear All Wires! (1933)
• Gambling Ship (1933)
• The Worst Woman in Paris? (1933)
• Looking Forward (1933)
• Only Yesterday (1933)
• The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
• Jew Suss (1934)
• 18 Minutes (1935)
• The Divine Spark (1935)
• The Gay Deception (1935)
• Suzy (1936)
• The Garden Murder Case (1936)
• Tarzan Escapes (1936)
• Moonlight Murder (1936)
• Rainbow on the River (1936)
• The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
• Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus (1938)

External links

• Benita Hume at Find a Grave
• Benita Hume at IMDb