Babette Louisa Valerie Hobson (14 April 1917 – 13 November 1998) [1] was a British [2] 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.

2019年12月30日 · 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.

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 …

2020年1月26日 · What happened to Valerie Hobson after the Profumo affair scandal? Following his resignation, Profumo worked as a volunteer at charity Toynbee Hall where he later became its chief fundraiser.

1998年11月16日 · 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...

1998年11月13日 · This pretty daughter of a British army officer became an elegant leading lady of British film in the 1930s and 40s. Shortly after enrolling at RADA at age 16, Valerie Hobson was cast in her first film the inferior "Eyes of Fate" (1933).

1998年11月13日 · 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.

Valerie Hobson was born in Northern Ireland. She made her cinematic debut with an uncredited role in the 1932 feature His Lordship. Early in her career, she shared the silver screen with actor Henry Hull in the Universal Pictures film Werewolf of London.

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.

1998年11月16日 · 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.