Valerie Hobson
Oyuncu · 1917 – 1998 · Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
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. She appeared as Baroness Frankenstein in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) with Boris Karloff and Colin Clive, taking over the role from Mae Clarke, who had played it in the original Frankenstein (1931). Hobson also played opposite Henry Hull that same year in Werewolf of London, the first Hollywood werewolf movie, predating The Wolf Man by six years. 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. 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 Valerie 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 Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on October 8, 1953. She played Mrs. Anna Leonowens opposite Herbert Lom's King. 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. Hobson's eldest son, Simon Anthony Clerveaux Havelock-Allan was born in May 1944 with Down's Syndrome. Her middle child, Mark Havelock-Allan, was born on 4 April 1951. Her youngest child is author David Profumo, (b. 16 October 1955) wrote Bringing the House Down (2006) about the scandal. She died of a heart attack in London in 1998 and is buried in Surrey, England. Description above from the Wikipedia Valerie Hobson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Film7.5KorkuBilim Kurguİki köylüyü öldürdükten sonra ormanda dolaşan canavar, yakalanıp hapse atılır. Zincirlerini kırarak kaçar ve kör bir keşişle (O.P. Heggie) karşılaşır. Keşiş, keman çalarak canavarı sakinleştirir ve konuşmayı öğretir. Ancak iki avcının keşişin kulübesine gelmesiyle canavar mezarlığa kaçar. Burada, eksantrik bilim insanı Dr. Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger) ile karşılaşır. Pretorius, canavara bir eş yaratmak için Dr. Henry Frankenstein'ı (Colin Clive) ikna etmeye çalışır. Frankenstein başta reddetse de, canavarın eşi Elizabeth'i (Valerie Hobson) kaçırmasıyla fikrini değiştirir. Yaratılan eş (Elsa Lanchester), kabarık saçlı grotesk bir güzelliktir, ancak canavarı görünce çığlık atarak reddeder. Canavar, laboratuvarı yok ederek kendini, eşini ve Pretorius'u öldürürken, Frankenstein'ların kaçmasına izin verir. Elsa Lanchester, hem canavarın eşini hem de romanın yazarı Mary Shelley'yi canlandırıyor.
Film7.3DramRomantik1800'lü yılların klasiği olarak anılan aynı isimli romandan uyarlanan film daha önceki uyarlamalara kıyasla ziyadesiyle beğeni toplamıştır. Pip son derece yumuşak kalpli ve iyi huylu biridir. Aynı zamanda saf bir yanı da vardır. Kız kardeşi ise bir hayli aksidir. Pip, kız kardeşi ve onun demircilik yapan kocası ile birlikte yaşamaktadır. Bir gün kilisenin mezarlığında iki kaçak kürek mahkumu ile burun buruna gelir. Mahkumlara evden yiyecek ve zincirlerinden kurtulabilmeleri için alet temin eder, ancak mahkumlar tekrar yakalanırlar. İki mahkumdan vicdanlı olanı evden kaybolan yiyeceği kendisinin çaldığını söyleyerek suçu üstlenir ve Pip’i suçlanmaktan kurtarır. Artık Pip ile aralarında bir bağ kurulmuştur. Bu davranış onları sevginin anlam kazandığı bir noktaya taşıyacaktır.
Film6.1KorkuFantastikA strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
Werewolf of London
1935 · 155 votes
Film7.6KomediSuçChalfont Dükü'nün küçük kızı, meteliksiz bir İtalyan şarkıcıyla kaçınca, ailesi onu reddeder. Kadın oğlu Louis'ye soylu atalarını anlatır ama, ailesi her türlü yardımı reddettiği için Louis bir kumaşçı dükkânında çalışmak zorunda kalır. D'Ascoyne ailesinin, annesiyle olan akrabalıklarını inatla kabul etmemesinden incinen Louis, kendisi ile aile unvanı arasındaki her türlü engeli ortadan kaldırarak hakkı olanı elde etmeye karar verir. Önce Henley'deki pis bir hafta sonunda en iğrenç kuzenini katleder, sonra da amatör fotoğrafçı olan bir başka kuzenini havaya uçurur. Din adamı olan bir amca zehirlenir; kadınlara oy hakkı verilmesi için mücadele eden bir hala balonunda vurulup düşürülür; asker bir amca en ünlü seferini anlatırken tuzağa düşürülür; ve denizci bir amca, bir çarpışmanın ardından teknesiyle birlikte denizin dibini boylar. Bu durum Louis'yi Chalfont ünvanının tek varisi yapar,
Film6.4SavaşGerilimA German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
The Spy in Black
1939 · 67 votes
Film5.9DramGizemA choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935 · 13 votes
Film6.5DramA strange and tragic tale of a young boy who is able to predict race winners at the horse track by riding his own rocking horse to aid his parents out of their endless round of debts.
The Rocking Horse Winner
1949 · 25 votes
Film6.2DramGerilimAllan Fury'nin çocuksuz dul eşi, Fury mülkünü Fuller akrabalarına miras bırakır, ancak Allan'ın bir hizmetçi gibi görünen gayri meşru oğlu, mülkü kendisi için almayı umuyor.
Film7.0KomediA charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman.
The Card
1952 · 42 votes
Film7.5DramA man travels to Istanbul to try and prevent a revolution.
The Secret of Stamboul
1936 · 2 votes
Film7.1GerilimSavaşDuring early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
Contraband
1940 · 22 votes
Film6.3GizemA convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe may have had reason to wish her dead
The Voice of Merrill
1952 · 10 votes
Film6.3DramKomediA train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
Train of Events
1949 · 13 votes
Film8.0When her parents are drowned at sea, "Princess" Judy is adopted by a soft-hearted old sea captain, Captain Zack, and brought to live on his tugboat.
Tugboat Princess
1936 · 1 votes
Film6.2RomantikSavaşBritish Captain Terence Stevenson accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing undetonated bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he's parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. Tartu makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory of its manufacturing.
The Adventures of Tartu
1943 · 18 votes
Film10.0GizemKomediA British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.
This Man in Paris
1939 · 1 votes
Film5.8GerilimWhen John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.
The Interrupted Journey
1949 · 19 votes
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Comedy about two Ruritanian countries who declare war on each other with the mutual intention of losing. Political satire that might have been Britain’s answer to Duck Soup.
The Path of Glory
1934 · 1 votes
Film5.3GizemKomediA newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.
This Man Is News
1938 · 6 votes
Film6.1MaceraSavaşİngiliz Raj'ı sırasında Yüzbaşı Carruthers, Hindistan'ın huzursuz Kuzey Batı Sınırı'nda kaçak silah sevkiyatlarını takip etmek için gizli görevdedir. Büyük çaplı bir isyanın patlak vermesinden korkmaktadır. İngiliz vali bunu önlemek için, Peşaver'den kuzeye doğru dört günlük yürüyüş mesafesinde olduğu belirtilen bölgedeki kilit krallıklardan Tokot'un dost canlısı, barışsever hükümdarıyla bir anlaşma imzalar. Bu arada kralın oğlu Prens Azim, Carruthers ve ona enstrüman çalmayı öğreten İngiliz davulcu Bill Holder ile arkadaş olur.
Film7.1KomediMeet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.
Meet Me Tonight
1952 · 7 votes
Film7.5DramRomantikThe second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
The Great Impersonation
1935 · 2 votes
Film6.4GerilimA man and his wife take to their house some men they rescue from a road crash and then find they have picked up some dangerous criminals.
The Small Voice
1948 · 7 votes
Film6.0GerilimGizemIn England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
Q Planes
1939 · 41 votes