Valerie Hobson

Valerie Hobson

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.

  • Title: Valerie Hobson
  • Popularity: 3.584
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1917-04-14
  • Place of Birth: Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
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  • Also Known As: Бабетта Валери Луиза Хобсон, Валери Хобсон, Babette Louisa Valerie Hobson
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Valerie Hobson Movies

  • 1935
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    Bride of Frankenstein

    Bride of Frankenstein

    7.5 1935 HD

    Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil...

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  • 1949
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    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    7.7 1949 HD

    When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be...

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  • 1935
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    Werewolf of London

    Werewolf of London

    6 1935 HD

    A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.

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  • 1946
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    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    7.28 1946 HD

    In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a...

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  • 1952
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    The Card

    The Card

    6.947 1952 HD

    A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite...

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  • 1949
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    The Rocking Horse Winner

    The Rocking Horse Winner

    6.568 1949 HD

    A strange and tragic tale of a young boy who is able to predict race winners at the horse track by riding his own rocking horse to aid his parents...

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  • 1939
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    Q Planes

    Q Planes

    5.8 1939 HD

    In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test...

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    The Drum

    The Drum

    5.7 1938 HD

    Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl (Raymond Massey) plans to wipe out the British troops as they enjoy the...

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  • 1936
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    Tugboat Princess

    Tugboat Princess

    1 1936 HD

    When her parents are drowned at sea, "Princess" Judy is adopted by a soft-hearted old sea captain, Captain Zack, and brought to live on his tugboat.

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  • 1952
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    The Voice of Merrill

    The Voice of Merrill

    5.9 1952 HD

    A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe may have had reason to...

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  • 1943
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    The Adventures of Tartu

    The Adventures of Tartu

    6.2 1943 HD

    British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent...

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    The Spy in Black

    The Spy in Black

    6.3 1939 HD

    A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

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  • 1935
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    The Mystery of Edwin Drood

    The Mystery of Edwin Drood

    5.5 1935 HD

    A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.

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  • 1942
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    Unpublished Story

    Unpublished Story

    6.3 1942 HD

    Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.

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  • 1940
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    Contraband

    Contraband

    6.9 1940 HD

    When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved...

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  • 1946
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    The Years Between

    The Years Between

    6.2 1946 HD

    Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop...

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  • 1941
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    Atlantic Ferry

    Atlantic Ferry

    5.5 1941 HD

    The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.

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  • 1935
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    Life Returns

    Life Returns

    4.2 1935 HD

    A doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedures on a recently...

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  • 1948
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    Blanche Fury

    Blanche Fury

    6 1948 HD

    Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche...

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  • 1949
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    Train of Events

    Train of Events

    6.2 1949 HD

    A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

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  • 1939
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    This Man in Paris

    This Man in Paris

    1 1939 HD

    A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.

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  • 1937
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    When Thief Meets Thief

    When Thief Meets Thief

    5 1937 HD

    A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.

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  • 1949
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    The Interrupted Journey

    The Interrupted Journey

    6 1949 HD

    When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife,...

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  • 1936
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    August Week End

    August Week End

    5 1936 HD

    At a high-society dinner party, a wealthy, older and married man sets his sights on a beautiful young girl who's loved by a younger and...

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  • 1936
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    Secret of Stamboul

    Secret of Stamboul

    6 1936 HD

    A man travels to Istanbul to try and prevent a revolution.

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  • 1948
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    The Small Voice

    The Small Voice

    6.2 1948 HD

    A man and his wife take to their house some men they rescue from a road crash and then find they have picked up some dangerous criminals.

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  • 1938
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    This Man Is News

    This Man Is News

    4.7 1938 HD

    A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.

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  • 1935
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    Chinatown Squad

    Chinatown Squad

    6 1935 HD

    Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.

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  • 1934
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    Strange Wives

    Strange Wives

    1 1934 HD

    When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.

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  • 1935
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    Rendezvous at Midnight

    Rendezvous at Midnight

    1 1935 HD

    There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead, especially the Police Commissioner's current paramour, who...

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  • 1952
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    Who Goes There!

    Who Goes There!

    5.7 1952 HD

    When Miles Cornwall returns suddenly to the home he shares with his father and sister in a grace-and-favour house at St. James's Palace, he's amazed...

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  • 1953
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    Background

    Background

    6 1953 HD

    Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the...

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  • 1936
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    No Exit

    No Exit

    6 1936 HD

    A crime novelist stages an imaginative prank to prove that the perfect murder is possible but finds it has catastrophic consequences.

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  • 1934
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    Badger’s Green

    Badger’s Green

    1 1934 HD

    A lovely English village is threatened with "development" by a speculative builder. The annual cricket match with another village shall decide its...

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  • 1934
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    The Path of Glory

    The Path of Glory

    1 1934 HD

    Comedy about two Ruritanian countries who declare war on each other with the mutual intention of losing. Political satire that might have been...

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  • 1935
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    The Great Impersonation

    The Great Impersonation

    1 1935 HD

    The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders...

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  • 1932
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    His Lordship

    His Lordship

    7 1932 HD

    The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona....

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  • 1954
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    Monsieur Ripois

    Monsieur Ripois

    6.1 1954 HD

    While his wife, Catherine, is finalizing their divorce, serial philanderer Andre invites his latest conquest, Catherine’s best friend,...

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  • 1952
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    Meet Me Tonight

    Meet Me Tonight

    6.7 1952 HD

    Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.

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  • 1939
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    The Silent Battle

    The Silent Battle

    1 1939 HD

    Secret agents try to defeat terrorists on the Orient Express.

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