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Babette Louisa Valerie Hobson (14 April 1917 – 13 November 1998) was a British 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.
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.
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.
Nov 16, 1998 · 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...
Nov 13, 1998 · 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 (1917 - 1998) She was typecast as the Iron Maiden of British cinema. Always perfectly groomed, nicely spoken, and with the sort of toughness that built the Empire. You can imagine her surviving The Black Hole of Calcutta without a hair out of place.
Valerie Hobson (14 April 1917 – 13 November 1998) was an actress during the 1930s to 1950s. She was the wife of the British politician, and later charity worker, John Profumo who gave his name to the Profumo affair.
Born on April 14th, 1917, in Larne, Ireland, [Now County Antrim, Northern Ireland] of English parents, her father was a Naval officer - she demonstrated at a very youthful age a marked aptitude for dancing.
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).
A great beauty who became an impressive actress, elegant redheaded Valerie Hobson landed some very choice roles in the later 1940s, and is perhaps at her best in those which permit her to exercise her talent for high comedy.
