#Benita Hume

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Greta Garbo (Camille, Anna Karenina, Queen Christina)—Enigmatic and alluring and made me bisexual. The perfect example of the eroticism in silent films that literally transcends text. Could literally not change anything about her expression but you knew by looking at her eyes what she was thinking. She’s so gorgeous.

Benita Hume (The House of the Arrow, Only Yesterday)—no propaganda submitted

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Garbo:

A cold-ass Swedish WLW Sphinx. Had plans to murder Hitler that she never got around to. "She will remain always a child of vikings, moved about by a snowy dream."

First of all, she's on the money; that's how much of a treasure she is. She's beautiful in such a distinct way you need very few lines to draw her. (Drawing by Einar Nerman) She managed to be mesmerizing in both silent and sound films. She kissed a woman in Queen Christina (and probably several more in real life). She was super dry and really funny in Ninotchka. She got the hell out of Hollywood and stayed out, living for almost 50 years after her retirement.

Garbo is one of the many reasons why I'm gay. If you haven't seen Queen Christina please do, She is so gender in that film. Also her accent makes it sound like she's always talking in cursive and it's so hypnotic (or at least I think so).

She's a gay introvert, like all of us here on Tumblr.

Mysterious and aloof, charismatic and enigmatic, with beautiful androgynous characteristics, Garbo is undoubtedly the most eccentric and unique Hollywood vintage star. Her aversion to fame and stardom makes her even more desirable to the audience, and her insane chemistry with the camera, an actress one of a kind! Her particularity and her oddity is what discerns her strongly from her hollywood co workers at the time, noone was like her and would never be like her. I think, to the utmost extent, that she deserves the title of the hottest vintage star, even though that would be an understatement of what she is!

SO gorgeous, her thick Swedish accent makes will turn your brain into pudding

Probabaly a lesbian, absolutely a mood when she retired

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Ronald Colman and Benita Hume arrive at Southampton on board the Queen Elizabeth in May 1948, days before the British premiere of A DOUBLE LIFE.

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"I said your money or your life!"

Probably the most famous gag Jack Benny ever did is at the end of the March 28, 1948 episode of his radio show, then airing on NBC with Lucky Strike as the sponsor. Jack is walking home from the house of Ronald Colman and his wife Benita Hume (who on the show were his neighbors in Beverly Hills) when he's confronted by a mugger with a gun. Then:

MUGGER: Now, come on, your money or your life. (Jack says nothing for a long beat.) MUGGER: Look, bud, I said, your money or your life! JACK (irritably): I'm thinking it over!

In isolation, it's not a big joke, but it builds effectively on Benny's by then well-established comic persona as a truly determined miser, and a host of previous gags about what a skinflint he is. (For instance, in the February 1 episode, eight weeks earlier, Jack follows the Colmans to the Brown Derby restaurant, insists on picking up the check, and then gets into a ferocious argument with the waiter over being charged for an extra cup of coffee while the Colmans, mortified, crawl out under the table and flee.) The studio audience, sensing where the exchange is going, starts to laugh about halfway through Benny's pregnant pause, and really loses it at his retort. Interestingly, people recalling this scene after the fact (including humorist and radio raconteur Jean Shepherd) seem to inevitably remember the pause as being really, really long, although it's actually only about five seconds. This wasn't lost on Benny, who in later iterations of the joke took pains to stretch the pause out for longer and longer, sometimes to hilarious effect.

In its original context, this bit is only one part of a several-week storyline that pays off a bunch of running gags: Since the Colmans were introduced as guest stars, Jack had been annoying them with his habit of constantly borrowing things and never returning or replacing them. Jack, who in his radio and TV persona was a colossal ham and a terrible actor, was also been envious of Colman for his acclaimed performance in A DOUBLE LIFE, for which the real Colman had won an Academy Award just eight days before this episode aired. So, in this episode, before leaving the Colmans' house to walk home, Jack convinces Colman to lend him his Oscar statuette, which the mugger then takes along with Jack's watch and wallet. This kicks off weeks of gags about Jack trying to figure out a way to get the Oscar back, or get another one to give Colman in its place, before Colman knows he's lost the original. Finally, the May 9 episode reveals that the mugger was actually the Colmans' butler, and the mugging was just a ruse to teach Jack a lesson for constantly borrowing things without giving them back.

Individually, some of the component gags of this storyline work better than others (my favorite is a bit where one of Benny's regular cast suggests that he offer a substantial reward — "Say, $1,000" — for the statuette's return, which gets almost as big a laugh as "I'm thinking it over!"), but the more familiar you are with the various character and story threads, the funnier the whole storyline becomes. Benny's writers were still successfully building off that fondly remembered sequence 20 years later.

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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937, Richard Boleslawski, Dorothy Arzner, George Fitzmaurice)

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They're so stupidly in love it makes me sick!!!!!!!!

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Clear All Wires! (1933) George W. Hill

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2022: George Spell, attore statunitense, uno dei primi attori bambini afroamericani cui siano stati affidati ruoli drammatici non-stereotipati al cinema e alla televisione americani tra gli anni ’60 e ’70. Comincia la sua esperienza di attore bambino nel 1968, a 10 anni. Per tutta la sua carriera Spell continuerà a partecipare a numerosi episodi delle più svariate serie televisive, laddove la…

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Glenda Farrell & Benita Hume in "Gambling ship" (1933)

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𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒐𝒏 𝑱𝒖𝒂𝒏 is a 1934 British comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon and Benita Hume.

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This won’t do any good as she’s being crushed by the Garbo freight train but BENITA HUME WAS QUITE HOT.

And got some smooching with Cary Grant done in Gambling Ship.

And goes full-on femme fatale as a spy with a loaded handbag in Suzy:

Sadly she passed away before the era of the Buzzfeed Puppy Interview:

She was also married to both Ronald Colman (until his death) and George Sanders (until hers) ‘cause she was a total keeper.

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Benita Hume and Chester Morris having coffee with director Edwin L. Marin on set of MIDNIGHT MURDER (1936)

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Presenting the Transcription Feature 191: THE HALLS OF IVY & OUR MISS BROOKS

It’s back-to-school time on this episode of “Presenting the Transcription Feature.”  And we all need to laugh, so here’s two comedy episodes.  First, we’ll visit Ivy College, where the mellifluous British actor Ronald Colman and his real-life wife, the equally mellifluous Benita Hume, star as “The Halls of Ivy.”  He is the president of one of those small Midwestern colleges that predominated in movies and radio shows of the era.  She, his wife, who has given up her career on the stage to be his helpmeet.  This episode, while full of laughs, has a lot of heart too.  The show’s dialog is informed and witty – as befits Colman’s always-sophisticated persona, and “The Halls of Ivy” even won a Peabody Award in 1950.  Then we drop in on high school to see “Our Miss Brooks.”  Here, Eve Arden plans a relaxing pre-return-to-work picnic.  But those plans soon go awry.  This episode starts off a little silly.  There’s the sit-com trope of people pretending to be other people, but, as we approach the end, it really pays off hilariously.  Plus, you get Gale Gordon and Frank Nelson in one episode.

Episodes

The Halls of Ivy March 19, 1952 “The Oldest Living Graduate” 2:35

Our Miss Brooks September 11, 1949 “The School Board” aka “Head of the Board” 28:23

Check out this episode!

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CARY GRANT and BENITA HUME in Gambling Ship dir. Max Marcin, Louis J. Gasnier

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The Private Life of Don Juan (Alexander Korda, 1934)

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This newspaper article from 1936 is killing me...