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Valerie Hobson, British actress, c1936-c1939

Valerie Hobson, British actress, c1936-c1939. Valerie Hobson (1917-1998) was a leading lady in the British cinema of the 1930s and 1940s. Among her best known roles were as Estella in David Lean's 1946 adaptation of Great Expectations and as Edith d'Ascoyne in the 1949 Ealing Comedy Kind Heart and Coronets'. She achieved a second, unsought, moment in the spotlight as the wife of John Profumo, the Tory minister at the centre of the Christine Keeler affair in 1963. Cigarette card from Real Photographs, series 8, issued by the manufacturers of State Express and Ardath Cigarettes

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Ginger Rogers, American actress, dancer and singer, c1938

Ginger Rogers, American actress, dancer and singer, c1938. Ginger Rogers (1911-1995) appeared in 73 films over a 35 year movie career. She is best known for her partnership with Fred Astaire, with whom she starred in 9 musicals in the 1930s. In 1941 she won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Kitty Foyle. Cigarette card from Modern Beauties, 3rd series, issued by the British-American Tobacco Company

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Jean Parker, American film actress, c1938

Jean Parker, American film actress, c1938. Among Parker's (1915-2005) films are titles such as The Ghost Goes West (1935, with Robert Donat), Sequoia (1934), Little Women (1933, with Katharine Hepburn) and Operator 13 (1934, with Marion Davies). Cigarette card from Modern Beauties, 3rd series, issued by the British-American Tobacco Company

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