Valerie Hobson - Фильмы

Valerie Hobson (14 Апреля 1917 – 13 November 1998) was a British актрисы who appeared in a number of British films during the 1940s and 1950s. She was born Бабетта Луиза Валери Хобсон in Ларн, County Antrim, Ирландия. She appeared as Баронесса Франкенштейн in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) with Boris Karloff and Колин Клайв, taking over the role from Mae Clarke, who had played it in the original Франкенштейн (1931). Хобсон also played opposite Генри Халл 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 пила Hobson in perhaps her two most memorable roles: as the adult Эстелла in David Lean's 1946 adaptation of Great Expectations, and as the refined and добродетельный Эдит D'Ascoyne in the 1949 black comedy крюки и короны Kind Hearts and. In 1952 she divorced her first husband, film producer Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan (1904-2003), and married MP Джон Профьюмо (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 Херберт 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, Саймон Энтони Clerveaux Havelock-Allan was born in May 1944 with Down's Синдром. Her middle child, Марк Havelock-Allan, was born on 4 April 1951. Her youngest child is author Дэвид Профьюмо, (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.