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Benita Hume (14 October 1907 – 1 November 1967) [1] 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.
Benita Hume, the British actress who had been married to Ronald Colman, died Wednesday at the farm of her sister, Mrs. Pamela Milburne, in Egerton, England. She was 60 years old.
In 1935, during the filming of 'A Tale of Two Cities' Colman met actress Benita Hume. They married in 1938 and had a daughter, Juliet, and a happy marriage living on their San Ysidro ranch property, a marriage which lasted until his death. Ronald Colman died on on May 19, 1958, from pneumonia, aged 67 years. He was buried at Santa Barbara Cemetery.
He had a daughter, Juliet Benita (born 1944), with his second wife, Benita Hume. Awards, honours and legacy. Colman was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actor. At the 3rd Academy Awards ceremony he received a single nomination for his work in two films; Bulldog Drummond (1929) and Condemned (1929).
In 1938, she married Ronald Colman and except for acting with him, she left her career behind. They had a popular comedy radio program in 1949-1951, "The Halls of Ivy." It was later made into a TV sitcom of the same title and stars, in 1954-55. And she and Colman appeared in some episodes of the Jack Benny Show on radio, as his woeful neighbor ...
The Halls of Ivy featured Ronald Colman as William Todhunter Hall, the president of small, Midwestern Ivy College, and Benita Hume as his wife, Victoria, a former British musical comedy star who sometimes feels the tug of her former profession, and followed their interactions with students, friends, and college trustees.
