Valerie Hobson
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Valerie Hobson (born Babette Valerie Louise Hobson, 14 April 1917 – 13 November 1998) was an Irish-born actress who appeared in a number of films during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
Her second husband was John Profumo, a government minister who became the subject of a sensational sex scandal in 1963.
Early years
Hobson was born in Larne, County Antrim, in Ulster. Her father, Robert Gordon Hobson was a captain in the Royal Navy, her mother was Violette (nee Willoughby) Hobson.
Before she was 11 years old, Hobson had begun to study acting and dancing at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Life and career
Baroness Frankenstein appeared in Bride of Frankenstein with Boris Karloff and Colin Clive in 1935. She appeared in Werewolf of London, the first Hollywood werewolf film, opposite Henry Hull. Hobson appeared in two of her two most memorable roles in David Lean's adaptation of Great Expectations (1946) and as the mature and virtuous Edith D'Ascoyne in the black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).
Anthony Havelock-Allan, a film director who died in 1952, divorced her first husband (2004–2003). Brigadier John Profumo (1915–2006), a Member of Parliament (MP), died soon after, and she ceased acting shortly thereafter. Profumo was a well-known politician of Italian descent.
Hobson's last appearance in Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play The King and I, which opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on October 8, 1953. Anna Leonowens was portrayed by the actress opposite Herbert Lom's King. The show attracted 926 viewers.
After Profumo's ministerial career ended in disgrace in 1963 after revelations that he had lied to the House of Commons about his affair with Christine Keeler, Hobson stood by him and continued to work for charity for the remainder of her life, though she did not have a public persona.
Simon Anthony Clerveaux Havelock-Allan, Hobson's eldest son, died in January 1991 with Down's syndrome. Mark Havelock-Allan, her middle child, was born on April 4th, 1951, and became a judge. David Profumo, a writer who wrote Bringing the House Down: A Family Memoir (2006) about the scandal, is her youngest child. In it, his parents told him nothing of the affair and that he learned of it from another boy at school.
Hobson's body was cremated in accordance with her wishes following her death. Half of her ashes were laid into a family vault in Hersham. On January 1, 1999, her sons David Profumo and Mark Havelock-Allan scattered the rest of the family's farm in Scotland. Deborah Grant of Scandal (1989), a stage performance by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Emilia Fox in the BBC mini-series The Trial of Christine Keeler, premiered on December 19, 2013.