Remembering (Babette Louisa) #ValerieHobson (1917-98), the luminous British film and stage actress, born in County Antrim #OnThisDay. Immortalised, at the age of 17, as Baroness Frankenstein in James Whale's peerless #BrideOfFrankenstein, she also portrayed Henry Hull's wife in Universal's #WerewolfOfLondon, Helena in #TheMysteryOfEdwinDrood (all 1935), Estella in David Lean's #GreatExpectations (1946) and Edith D'Ascoyne in #KindHeartsAndCoronets (1949).

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