Cyril Hume

Overview

Writer Cyril Hume was born in New Rochelle, NY, in 1900. As a young man he joined the US Army and was assigned to the 219th Engineers, but left the service after only four months. In 1922 he enrolled at Yale University, but did not complete his studies there. He published his first novel, "Wife of the Centaur", in 1923, to generally positive reviews. He published several more novels over the next few years, to mixed reviews, and by 1930 he had basically given up novel writing to concentrate on screenplays (he wrote many entries in the "Tarzan" series for MGM). He is probably best known for writing the screenplay for the sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet (1956). He was the brother of actress Benita Hume and was at one time married to actress Helen Chandler. He died in Palos Verdes, California, in 1966.
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A descendant of the philosopher David Hume.
Was the chief writer of MGM's :'Tarzan" movies in the 1930s and is credited with having suggested Johnny Weissmuller for the starring role. Remained under contract with MGM until 1957.
Though sometimes referred to as the brother of English actress Benita Hume, Cyril Hume was actually born in New Rochelle, NY, the son of Thomas and Harriet Hume. His siblings were Mary, Nelson, Alexander, Constance, Dorothy, and Raphael, a noted architect.
Brother-in-law of George Sanders.
During the early 1930s, he and wife Helen Chandler lived in the "French Pavilion" house of the French Village housing development in Hollywood, off of Highland Avenue, just below Whitley Heights and across the street from the Hollywood Bowl. The unique set of homes, by Walter S. and F. Pierpont Davis, were razed in 1952 to make way for the Hollywood Freeway.

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