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Valerie Hobson, English actress (died 1998)
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 the Profumo affair in 1963. In 1952, Hobson divorced her first husband, film producer Anthony Havelock-Allan.
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Valerie Hobson was born in 1917. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.
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| Measure | 1917 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Gas | $0.25 | $3.45/gal |
| Population | 100.8M | 341 million |
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