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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.
- January 1, 1
- London, England, UK
- January 1, 1
- 1.68 m
In 1935, aged 17, Hobson 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.
Bride of Frankenstein: Directed by James Whale. With Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger. Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
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- Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
- James Whale
- 1935-05-06
Because of Mae Clarke's ill health, Valerie Hobson replaced her as Henry Frankenstein's love interest, Elizabeth. Early in production, Whale decided that the same actress cast to play the Bride should also play Mary Shelley in the film's prologue, to represent how the story — and horror in general — springs from the dark side of the ...
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.
- April 14, 1917
- November 13, 1998
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Oct 26, 2022 · English actress Valerie Hobson, then 17, was given the former Mae Clarke role as Elizabeth. For the role of the blind hermit who befriends the Monster, Whale wanted Australian actor O. P. Heggie so badly that he rescheduled Bride so Heggie could finish a picture ( A Dog of Flanders ) at RKO.
Jan 6, 2021 · Wednesday, January 6, 2021. Valerie Hobson: From Frankenstein's Bride To Bringing Down the British Government. A 1935 Werewolf, the 1963 resignation of the "British Secretary of State for War", one commonality, Valerie Hobson. The Story Begins:
