Benita Hume

Benita Hume

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

  • Title: Benita Hume
  • Popularity: 7.054
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1906-10-14
  • Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Benita Humm, Mrs. Ronald Colman
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Benita Hume Movies

  • 1936
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    Tarzan Escapes

    Tarzan Escapes

    6.3 1936 HD

    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...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Johnny Weissmüller

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  • 1934
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    The Private Life of Don Juan

    The Private Life of Don Juan

    6.2 1934 HD

    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...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

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  • 1933
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    Gambling Ship

    Gambling Ship

    5.2 1933 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Cary Grant

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  • 1936
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    Suzy

    Suzy

    5.8 1936 HD

    A French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife's first husband is still alive.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jean Harlow

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  • 1937
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    The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

    The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

    6 1937 HD

    A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Joan Crawford

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  • 1935
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    The Gay Deception

    The Gay Deception

    6.6 1935 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Francis Lederer

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  • 1936
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    The Garden Murder Case

    The Garden Murder Case

    5.5 1936 HD

    Detective Philo Vance is in charge of the investigation of several mysterious murders. Things take a turn when he gathers evidence against Major...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Edmund Lowe

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  • 1929
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    High Treason

    High Treason

    5.4 1929 HD

    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...

    Genre: War

    Cast: Jameson Thomas

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  • 1933
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    Clear All Wires!

    Clear All Wires!

    6.5 1933 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Lee Tracy

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  • 1928
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    The Lady of the Lake

    The Lady of the Lake

    1 1928 HD

    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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    Cast: Percy Marmont

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  • 1934
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    Jew Süss

    Jew Süss

    5 1934 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Conrad Veidt

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  • 1936
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    Moonlight Murder

    Moonlight Murder

    5 1936 HD

    An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Chester Morris

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  • 1929
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    The Wrecker

    The Wrecker

    6.2 1929 HD

    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....

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Carlyle Blackwell

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  • 1938
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    Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus

    Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus

    4.3 1938 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tommy Kelly

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  • 1931
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    A Honeymoon Adventure

    A Honeymoon Adventure

    4.5 1931 HD

    An exciting tale of international crooks and stolen plans, in which an inventor is kidnapped by foreign agents whilst honeymooning in Scotland.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Benita Hume

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  • 1928
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    Balaclava

    Balaclava

    1 1928 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Cyril McLaglen

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  • 1932
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    Service for Ladies

    Service for Ladies

    6.8 1932 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Leslie Howard

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  • 1933
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    Only Yesterday

    Only Yesterday

    6.8 1933 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Margaret Sullavan

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  • 1933
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    Looking Forward

    Looking Forward

    6.2 1933 HD

    Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Lionel Barrymore

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  • 1932
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    Help Yourself

    Help Yourself

    1 1932 HD

    British comedy directed by John Daumery ...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Benita Hume

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  • 1932
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    Lord Camber's Ladies

    Lord Camber's Ladies

    6 1932 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gerald du Maurier

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  • 1936
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    Rainbow on the River

    Rainbow on the River

    9 1936 HD

    A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Bobby Breen

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  • 1933
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    Discord

    Discord

    1 1933 HD

    A struggling composer has to be supported financially by his wealthier wife.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Owen Nares

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  • 1933
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    The Little Damozel

    The Little Damozel

    1 1933 HD

    A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub.

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Anna Neagle

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  • 1928
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    The Constant Nymph

    The Constant Nymph

    1 1928 HD

    Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ivor Novello

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  • 1935
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    The Divine Spark

    The Divine Spark

    1 1935 HD

    British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Mártha Eggerth

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  • 1928
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    Easy Virtue

    Easy Virtue

    5.181 1928 HD

    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...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Isabel Jeans

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  • 1930
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    The House of the Arrow

    The House of the Arrow

    1 1930 HD

    In France, an inspector solves the poisoning of his rich aunt.

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Dennis Neilson-Terry

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    Symphony in Two Flats

    Symphony in Two Flats

    1 1930 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ivor Novello

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  • 1931
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    The Flying Fool

    The Flying Fool

    1 1931 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Henry Kendall

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  • 1931
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    The Happy Ending

    The Happy Ending

    1 1931 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: George Barraud

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  • 1932
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    Diamond Cut Diamond

    Diamond Cut Diamond

    1 1932 HD

    One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Adolphe Menjou

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    Men of Steel

    Men of Steel

    1 1932 HD

    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,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Stuart

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    Sally Bishop

    Sally Bishop

    1 1932 HD

    A British romantic drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Joan Barry

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  • 1932
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    Women Who Play

    Women Who Play

    1 1932 HD

    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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    Cast: Mary Newcomb

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  • 1929
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    The Clue of the New Pin

    The Clue of the New Pin

    1 1929 HD

    A wealthy recluse is murdered in an absolutely sealed room.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Benita Hume

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  • 1935
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    18 Minutes

    18 Minutes

    10 1935 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gregory Ratoff

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  • 1933
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    The Worst Woman in Paris?

    The Worst Woman in Paris?

    1 1933 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Adolphe Menjou

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  • 1928
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    A Light Woman

    A Light Woman

    1 1928 HD

    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...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Benita Hume

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  • 1925
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    The Happy Ending

    The Happy Ending

    1 1925 HD

    A wastrel returns to blackmail his wife who has told her children that he died a hero.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Fay Compton

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  • 1928
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    A South Sea Bubble

    A South Sea Bubble

    1 1928 HD

    'Girl reporter and insane fiancé join pirate's descendant in treasure hunt.' (British Film Catalogue)

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ivor Novello

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  • 1955
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    The Halls of Ivy

    The Halls of Ivy

    1 1955 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ronald Colman

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  • 1956
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    Four Star Playhouse

    Four Star Playhouse

    5.667 1956 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1965
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    The Jack Benny Program

    The Jack Benny Program

    7.6 1965 HD

    Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jack Benny

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