Great Expectations
1947
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Babette Louisa Valerie Hobson (14 April 1917 – 13 November 1998) was a British actress whose film career spanned the 1930s to the early 1950s. Her second husband was John Profumo, a British government minister who became the subject of the Profumo affair in 1963.
Valerie Hobson. Actress: Bride of Frankenstein. Elegant, quintessentially British Valerie Hobson was the daughter of a British army officer. She studied dancing at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and appeared onstage for the first time at age 16, but she contracted a case of scarlet fever and decided to give up dancing for acting.
Dec 30, 2019 · Not quite the saintly wife she seemed: Valerie Hobson, aka Mrs Profumo, remained at her husband John's side throughout the infamous 1960s scandal that brought him down.
Valerie Hobson. Actress: Bride of Frankenstein. Elegant, quintessentially British Valerie Hobson was the daughter of a British army officer. She studied dancing at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and appeared onstage for the first time at age 16, but she contracted a case of scarlet fever and decided to give up dancing for acting.
Nov 16, 1998 · LIKE MANY British female film stars of the Thirties and Forties, Valerie Hobson exuded breeding and class, but she also brought to her performances a delightfully sophisticated sense of humour...
Nov 16, 1998 · Valerie Hobson, a British movie star who stayed loyal to her husband, John Profumo, after he figured in a sex scandal as a member of Britain's Conservative Government in 1963, died on Friday at...
Valerie Hobson, who has died aged 81, was a leading lady in the British cinema of the Thirties and Forties and achieved a second, unsought, moment in the spotlight as the wife of John Profumo, the Tory minister at the centre of the Christine Keeler affair in 1963. As an actress she knew, like Garbo, when to quit.
Shortly after enrolling at RADA at age 16, Valerie Hobson was cast in her first film the inferior "Eyes of Fate" (1933). The following year, she headed to Hollywood and Universal where she was wasted in several pictures, often as a terror-stricken victim.
British actress Valerie Hobson, best known for her films "The Bride of Frankenstein" and "Great Expectations," died of a heart attack at a London Hospital on Nov. 13, 1998. She was 81.
A great beauty who became an impressive actress, elegant redheaded Valerie Hobson landed some very choice roles in the later 1940s, and is perhaps at her best in those which permit her to exercise her talent for high comedy.
