Word: benita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complex twigs sprout from Hollywood's family trees. There, for example, in the splendid boarding house of Hotel Magnate Conrad Hilton was Cineminx Eva Gabor, sister of Hilton's ex-wife Zsa Zsa, whose former husband, Cinemenace George Sanders, had recently moved out with his new bride Benita Hume, widow of Cinemactor Ronald Colman. Eva, it so happens, is a former potential step-aunt of Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor (through Liz's first marriage to Hilton's playboy son Nicky), thus also ex-step-great-aunt, two marriages removed, of another guest in the Casa, fledgling Cinemogul...
Married. George Sanders, 52, suave Hollywood heavy; and Benita Hume Colman, 52, actress, widow of Actor Ronald Colman; both for the third time (his second was Cinemagyar Zsa Zsa Gabor); in Madrid, where he is on location for Solomon and Sheba. Benita is a British subject. Sanders, born of British parents in St. Petersburg, Russia, will give up his U.S. citizenship...
...Saragossa, Spain, saturnine Cinemactor George Sanders, 52, onetime husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, said that he and Old Friend Benita Hume Colman, 51, widow of Cinemactor Ronald Colman, would be wed "in about six months." Acknowledged his intended: "I'm enchanted with the whole thing, but there is no hurry about...
...recent years Colman led a squirely life in the Santa Barbara hills. With his actress wife Benita Hume he did a radio-and-TV comedy series (The Halls of Ivy), also played host to such career-long friends as Richard Barthelmess and William Powell. It fell to Barthelmess and Powell last week to escort Benita Hume Colman and the Colmans' only child, Juliet, to the funeral of Ronald Colman, dead of a lung infection...
...Halls of Ivy (Tues. 8:30 p.m., CBS). The radio series moves to TV, with Ronald Colman, Benita Hume...