Benita Hume
Also Known As: Benita Humm, Mrs. Ronald Colman
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: October 14, 1906
Deathday: November 01, 1967
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Gender: Female
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Tarzan Escapes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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The Private Life of Don Juan
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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A Light Woman
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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Suzy
Overview: A French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife's first husband is still alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-20
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Gambling Ship
Overview: 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!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-23
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The Gay Deception
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-13
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Overview: A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-19
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The Happy Ending
Overview: A wastrel returns to blackmail his wife who has told her children that he died a hero.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-02
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The Garden Murder Case
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-21
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High Treason
Overview: 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.
Genres: War Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-25
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A South Sea Bubble
Overview: 'Girl reporter and insane fiancé join pirate's descendant in treasure hunt.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-08-03
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Clear All Wires!
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-24
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The Lady of the Lake
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-08
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Jew Süss
Overview: 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 with the help of an evil Duke.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-13
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Moonlight Murder
Overview: An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-27
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The Wrecker
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-16
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Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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A Honeymoon Adventure
Overview: An exciting tale of international crooks and stolen plans, in which an inventor is kidnapped by foreign agents whilst honeymooning in Scotland.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-21
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Service for Ladies
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-14
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Only Yesterday
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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Looking Forward
Overview: Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-28
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Help Yourself
Overview: British comedy directed by John Daumery ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-21
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Lord Camber's Ladies
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-27
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Rainbow on the River
Overview: A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Discord
Overview: A struggling composer has to be supported financially by his wealthier wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Balaclava
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-06
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The Little Damozel
Overview: A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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The Constant Nymph
Overview: 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
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-20
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The Divine Spark
Overview: British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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Easy Virtue
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-01
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The House of the Arrow
Overview: In France, an inspector solves the poisoning of his rich aunt.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-24
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Symphony in Two Flats
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-16
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The Flying Fool
Overview: 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.....
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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Diamond Cut Diamond
Overview: One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-17
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The Happy Ending
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-01
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Men of Steel
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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Women Who Play
Overview: In order to deter his wife from having an affair a man hires an actress as part of an elaborate scheme.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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Sally Bishop
Overview: A British romantic drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-17
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The Clue of the New Pin
Overview: A wealthy recluse is murdered in an absolutely sealed room.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-01
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18 Minutes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-07
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The Worst Woman in Paris?
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-03
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