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The Card

as Countess of Chell

1952
The Voice of Merrill

as Alycia Roche

1953
Kind Hearts and Coronets

as Edith D'Ascoyne

1950
Blanche Fury

as Blanche Fury

1948
The Small Voice

as Eleanor Byrne

1952
Great Expectations

as Estella

1946
The Years Between

as Diana Wentworth

1946
The Adventures of Tartu

as Maruschuka Lanova

1943
Unpublished Story

as Carol Bennett

1942
Atlantic Ferry

as Mary Ann Morison

1941
Contraband

as Mrs. Sorensen

1940
Q Planes

as Kay Lawrence

1939
The Spy in Black

as The School Mistress

1939
The Drum

as Mrs. Carruthers

1938
Bride of Frankenstein

as Elizabeth

1935
Werewolf of London

as Lisa Glendon

1935
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

as Helena Landless

1935
Life Returns

as Mrs. Kendrick

1935
Chinatown Squad

as Janet Baker

1935
Rendezvous at Midnight

as Sandra Rogers

1935
Valerie Hobson Valerie Hobson

Birthday

1917-04-13

Place of Birth

Larne, Northern Ireland

Biography

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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