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Valerie Hobson

Valerie Hobson

cumpleaños: 1917-04-13 | lugar de nacimiento: Larne, Northern Ireland

Valerie Hobson (14 April 1917 – 13 November 1998) was a British actress who appeared in a number of British films during the 1940s and 1950s. She was born Babette Valerie Louise Hobson in Larne, County Antrim, Ireland. She appeared as Baroness Frankenstein in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) with Boris Karloff and Colin Clive, taking over the role from Mae Clarke, who had played it in the original Frankenstein (1931). Hobson also played opposite Henry Hull that same year in Werewolf of London, the first Hollywood werewolf movie, predating The Wolf Man by six years. The latter half of the 1940s saw Hobson in perhaps her two most memorable roles: as the adult Estella in David Lean's 1946 adaptation of Great Expectations, and as the refined and virtuous Edith D'Ascoyne in the 1949 black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. In 1952 she divorced her first husband, film producer Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan (1904–2003), and married MP John Profumo (1915–2006) in 1954, giving up acting shortly afterwards Valerie Hobson's last starring role was in the original London production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play The King and I which opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on October 8, 1953. She played Mrs. Anna Leonowens opposite Herbert Lom's King. After Profumo's ministerial career ended in disgrace in 1963, following revelations he had lied to the House of Commons about his affair with Christine Keeler, she stood by him, and they worked together for charity for the remainder of her life. Hobson's eldest son, Simon Anthony Clerveaux Havelock-Allan was born in May 1944 with Down's Syndrome. Her middle child, Mark Havelock-Allan, was born on 4 April 1951. Her youngest child is author David Profumo, (b. 16 October 1955) wrote Bringing the House Down (2006) about the scandal. She died of a heart attack in London in 1998 and is buried in Surrey, England. Description above from the Wikipedia Valerie Hobson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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1954
Monsieur Ripois

as    Catherine Ripois

1952
The Voice of Merrill

as    Alycia Roche

1952
The Card

as    Countess of Chell

1949
A mitad de camino

as    Carol North

1949
Ocho sentencias de muerte

as    Edith

1949
Train of Events

as    Stella

1948
La mansión de los Fury

as    Blanche Fury

1948
The Small Voice

as    Eleanor Byrne

1946
The Years Between

as    Diana Wentworth

1946
Cadenas rotas

as    Estella

1943
The Adventures of Tartu

as    Maruschuka Lanova

1942
Unpublished Story

as    Carol Bennett

1941
Atlantic Ferry

as    Mary Ann Morison

1940
Contraband

as    Mrs. Sorensen

1939
Q Planes

as    Kay Lawrence

1939
El espía negro

as    The School Mistress

1938
Revuelta en la India

as    Mrs. Carruthers

1935
La novia de Frankenstein

as    Elizabeth Frankenstein

1935
Mystery of Edwin Drood

as    Helena Landless

1935
Chinatown Squad

as    Janet Baker

1935
El lobo humano

as    Lisa Glendon

1935
Life Returns

as    Mrs. Kendrick

1935
Rendezvous at Midnight

as    Sandra Rogers