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Cyril Hume

{{short description|American screenwriter (1900–1966)}}

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| name = Cyril Hume

| image = Forbiddenplanetposter.jpg

| caption = Cyril Hume wrote science fiction film Forbidden Planet in 1956.

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1900|03|16}}

| birth_place = New York, New York, US

| death_date = {{death date and age|1966|03|26|1900|03|16}}

| death_place = Palos Verdes, California, US

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| known_for = Forbidden Planet (1956)
The Great Gatsby (1949)
Tokyo Joe (1949)
Flying Down to Rio (1933)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)

| education = Yale University

| occupation = Novelist, screenwriter

| years_active = 1924–1966

| spouse = {{Plainlist|

  • {{marriage|Jane Barbara Alexander|1923|1925|end=d.}}
  • {{marriage|Charlotte Dickinson|1926||end=div}}
  • {{marriage|Helen Chandler|1930|1934|reason=div}}
  • {{marriage|Maxine Gagnon||1936|end=div}}
  • Dorothy Wallace}}

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Cyril Hume (March 16, 1900 – March 26, 1966) was an American novelist and screenwriter. Hume was a graduate of Yale University, where he edited campus humor magazine The Yale Record. He was an editor of the collection The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872–1922 (1922).Bronson, Francis W., Thomas Caldecott Chubb, and Cyril Hume, eds. (1922) The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872–1922. New Haven: Yale University Press.

One year out of college, Hume was a $25-a-week "cub reporter" for the New York World when he wrote his first novel, Wife of the Centaur. It was published by the George H. Doran Company in October 1923 and listed at $2.50 as "A novel of youth and love today so poignant and vivid that it will attract wide attention." On November 22, he sold the motion-picture rights for $25,000, considered a record amount at the time.

Hume wrote for 29 films between 1924 and 1966, including Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), Flying Down to Rio (1933), The Great Gatsby (1949), Tokyo Joe (1949) and Forbidden Planet (1956).

Early life

Hume was born March 16, 1900, in New Rochelle, New York.{{cite book |last1=Howes |first1=Durward |title=America's Young Men |date=1938 |publisher=Richard Blank Publishing Company |page=292 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZQ6AQAAIAAJ&q=%22helen+chandler%22+cyril+hume}}

In 1923, Hume was engaged to Jane Barbara Alexander,{{cite magazine |title=Milestones: Dec. 24, 1923 |magazine=Time |date=24 December 1923 |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,727689,00.html |access-date=17 October 2021 |issn=0040-781X}} a published poet.{{cite magazine |title=The contributors' column |magazine=The Bookman |date=1925 |volume=61 |page=129 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PA04AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA128-IA1 |publisher=Dodd, Mead and Company}} After their marriage, the couple moved from New York to Florence, Italy.{{cite news |title=Cyril Hume dies; wrote for films; did 'Great Gatsby' script in 1949--also a novelist |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/03/28/283355602.html?pageNumber=33 |access-date=17 October 2021 |work=New York Times |date=March 28, 1966 |url-access=subscription}} Alexander died in 1925 in Florence.{{cite magazine |title=Milestones |magazine=Time |date=June 1, 1925 |volume=V |issue=22 |page=32 |url=https://time.com/vault/issue/1925-06-01/page/34/ |access-date=17 October 2021}} The following year, Hume married Charlotte Dickinson.{{cite magazine |title=Milestones: May 31, 1926 |magazine=Time |date=31 May 1926 |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,729284,00.html |access-date=17 October 2021}} Hume married his third wife, Helen Chandler, in 1930;{{cite book |last1=Chapman |first1=James |last2=Cull |first2=Nicholas J. |title=Projecting Tomorrow: Science Fiction and Popular Cinema |date=30 January 2013 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-0-85773-312-2 |page= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Up-LDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT157 |access-date=17 October 2021 }} they were divorced in 1934.{{cite book |last1=Mank |first1=Gregory William |title=The Very Witching Time of Night: Dark Alleys of Classic Horror Cinema |date=6 June 2014 |publisher=McFarland |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |isbn=978-0-7864-4955-2 |page=25 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dwKhAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA25}} Hume's fourth wife was Maxine Gagnon, an actress. They were divorced in 1936.{{cite news |title=Maxine Gagnon gets divorce |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/04/28/87933306.html?pageNumber=17 |access-date=17 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=April 28, 1936 |url-access=subscription}} His fifth wife was Dorothy Wallace; they remained together until Hume's death.

Death

Hume died on March 26, 1966, just 10 days after his 66th birthday, at his home in Palos Verdes, California. He was buried in the Whispering Pines section of Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.

Published books

The Library of Congress catalogs eight books as by Hume (and six film or video items).Library of Congress Online Catalog (catalog.loc.gov). May 2019. One 1927 review of Street of the Malcontents and Other Stories notes that he has published three novels, and here "has collected his first book of short stories, five of which are contributions from the European scene.""Mr. Hume's Short Stories". The New York Times. May 29, 1927, p. BR9.

  • The Yale Record Book of Verse, 1872–1922, eds. Francis W. Bronson, Thomas Caldecot Chubb, and Hume (Yale University Press, 1922)
  • Wife of the Centaur (George H. Doran Company, 1923)
  • Cruel Fellowship (Doran, 1925)
  • The Golden Dancer (Doran, 1926)
  • Street of the Malcontents and Other Stories (Doran, 1927) – collection of stories
  • A Dish for the Gods (Doubleday, Doran, 1929)
  • Myself and the Young Bowman and Other Fantasies (Doubleday, Doran, 1932) – stories and poems
  • My Sister, My Bride (Doubleday, Doran, 1932)

Selected filmography

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References

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"Cub Reporter Gets $25,000 For Movie Rights To Novel". The Sun (Baltimore). November 23, 1923. Dateline "New York, Nov. 22 (Special)"}}

External links

  • {{IMDb name|0401738}}
  • {{isfdb name|19197}}
  • {{LCAuth|no90001892|Cyril Hume|14|}}

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Category:1900 births

Category:1966 deaths

Category:American male screenwriters

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Category:20th-century American novelists

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Category:Screenwriters from California

Category:20th-century American screenwriters