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 Leans 1946 adaptation of Great Expectations and as the refined and virtuous Edith DAscoyne in the 1949 black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets In 1952 she divorced her first husband film producer Sir Anthony HavelockAllan 19042003 and married MP John Profumo 19152006 in 1954 giving up acting shortly afterwards Valerie Hobsons last starring role was in the original London production of Rodgers and Hammersteins 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 Loms King After Profumos 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 Hobsons eldest son Simon Anthony Clerveaux HavelockAllan was born in May 1944 with Downs Syndrome Her middle child Mark HavelockAllan 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia