Valerie Hobson
| Valerie Hobson | |
|---|---|
from the trailer for
Bride of Frankenstein |
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| Born |
Babette Valerie Louise Hobson 14 April 1917 Larne, County Antrim, Ireland |
| Died | 13 November 1998 (aged 81) Westminster, London, England |
| Years active | 1932–1954 |
| Spouse(s) |
Anthony Havelock-Allan (1939–1952; divorced) John Profumo (1954–1998; her death) |
| Children | 3 |
Valerie Hobson (14 April 1917 – 13 November 1998) was a British actress who appeared in a number of films during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She was born Babette Valerie Louise Hobson in Larne, County Antrim, in present-day Northern Ireland. Her second husband was John Profumo, a government minister who became the subject of a sensational sex scandal in 1963.
In 1935, still in her teens, she appeared as Baroness Frankenstein in Bride of Frankenstein with Boris Karloff and Colin Clive. She played opposite Henry Hull that same year in Werewolf of London, the first Hollywood werewolf film. The latter half of the 1940s saw Hobson in perhaps her two most memorable roles: as the adult Estella in David Lean's adaptation of Great Expectations (1946), and as the refined and virtuous Edith D'Ascoyne in the black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).
In 1952 she divorced her first husband, film producer Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan (1904–2003). In 1954, she married John Profumo (1915–2006), an MP, giving up acting shortly afterwards. 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 8 October 1953. She played Mrs. Anna Leonowens opposite Herbert Lom's King. The show ran for 926 performances.
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