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Ronald Colman Dies at 67 in California
Ronald Colman film star died at 5 a.m. in St. Francis hospital Santa Barbara after a viral lung infection. Wife Benita Hume at his bedside. Public funeral set for Wednesday at All Saints by the Sea church. Colman, born 1893 in Richmond, rose from silent films to winning an Oscar for A Double Life in 1947. He and Hume also starred on radio and television in The Halls of Ivy.
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