Cyril Hume

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.

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.

In 1923, Hume was engaged to Jane Barbara Alexander, a published poet. After their marriage, the couple moved from New York to Florence, Italy. Alexander died in 1925 in Florence. The following year, Hume married Charlotte Dickinson. Hume married his third wife, Helen Chandler, in 1930; they were divorced in 1934. Hume's fourth wife was Maxine Gagnon, an actress. They were divorced in 1936. His fifth wife was Dorothy Wallace; they remained together until Hume's death. 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."

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

The Wife of the Centaur (1924) – based on Hume's 1923 novel New Moon (1930) Trader Horn (1931) Daybreak (1931) Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) Flying Down to Rio (1933) Affairs of a Gentleman (1934) Limehouse Blues (1934) Yellow Dust (1936) The Devil Is a Sissy (1936) Tarzan Escapes (1936) The Jungle Princess (1936) The Great Gatsby (1949) Tokyo Joe (1949) Ransom! (1956) Forbidden Planet (1956) The Invisible Boy (1957)