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Valerie Hobson
Actor
Female
Born
Apr 14, 1917
Hometown
County Antrim
Died
Nov 13, 1998
Death Place
London
Other Names
Hobson, Babette V...
Valerie Hobson 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, Northern Ireland.
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Valerie Hobson
d.1998
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Sir (Anthony) Mark David Havelock-Allan, 5th Baronet QC FCIArbSon, Age 62
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CHILDHOOD
1917
Birth
Born on April 14, 1917.
TWENTIES
1946
29 Years Old
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.
THIRTIES
1951
34 Years Old
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Her middle child, Mark Havelock-Allan, was born on 4 April 1951 and became a judge.
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1952
35 Years Old
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.
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FORTIES
1963
46 Years Old
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, though she did miss their more public life.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1998
82 Years Old
She died of a heart attack in London in 1998 and is buried in Surrey, England.
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