Valerie Hobson
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Babette Louisa Valerie Hobson 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
Hobson in 1934
Kind Hearts and Coronets
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Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British crime black comedy film directed by Robert Hamer. It features Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness; Guinness plays eight characters
Valerie Hobson
…adult Estella in David Lean's (1908–1991) adaptation of Great Expectations (1946), and as the refined and virtuous Edith D'Ascoyne in the black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). Hobson's last starring role was in the original London production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play The King and I, which opened at the…
Original British film poster by James Fitton
Alec Guinness in 1972
Scene showing Alec Guinness in six of the roles he portrayed (second from the left is Valerie Hobson as the recently widowed Edith). The cinematographer Douglas Slocombe masked the lens and filmed over several days to achieve the shot.
Leeds Castle, which served as the ancestral home of the D'Ascoyne family.