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Tarzan Escapes
LOBBY DISPLAY II
FEATURING BENITA HUME

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Benita Hume (1906.10.14-1967.11.01). started in the theatre but quickly gravitated to films. . . and eventually to radio and television. She married writer/journalist Eric Siepman at age 19. She won a role in Ivor Novello’s play Symphony in Two Flats and she accompanied Novello when he took the play to New York. From here she graduated to a number of contracts with RKO and MGM. In 1935 she was cast by MGM in Tarzan Escapes for $1250 per week, for a minimum of three weeks, but by the time the film was completed her wages from the film totalled $75 000. In the film she played Rita - cousin of Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan). She married Ronald Colman in 1938 and they had their only child, Juliet, in 1943. The Colmans did several radio shows with neighbour Jack Benny and starred in their own series, Halls of Ivy,  in 1950, which evolved into a TV series in 1954.
    My first exposure to Benita was through her many appearances on the Jack Benny radio show which was one of my favourite OTR shows. I've collected hundreds of Benny's shows from the '30s-'50s in my huge AV library on tape, CD and hard drive. She returned to England after Ronald died in 1958 and married George Sanders a year later. She died of bone cancer in 1967.

Quotation from Tarzan Escapes: as Rita to Jane
You see, we wanted to take you back to where we thought you belong. "Civilization" I think they call it.
But it's not for you. And even if your coming back meant that I'd inherit the world,
I couldn't forget the look in Tarzan's eyes when he thought he was going to lose you.
Stay here with your jungle flies, and your funny little Cheetah
and all the trouble she gets into, and Tarzan.
You've got the grandest possessions that any woman can have:
peace and comradeship and perfect communion with a man
whose whole strength is devoted to making your life beautiful. Don't you ever lose it.

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