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Valerie Hobson
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John Mills as Pip holds a candlestick and looks at Valerie Hobson as Estella, who is seated in an ornate chair, in a dramatic scene from the 1946 film Great Expectations. Alec Guinness as Young Ascoyne, center, points a cane at Dennis Price as Louis Mazzini, right, while Valerie Hobson as Edith D'Ascoyne sits to the left in a Victorian shop scene from Kind Hearts and Coronets.
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Valerie Hobson

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  • Great Expectations
    Great Expectations

    …pursues Estella (now played by Valerie Hobson), despite her claims that she is not interested in him. Eventually, Pip encounters Abel Magwitch (Finlay Currie), an escaped convict to whom Pip as a child had once provided comfort. After Magwitch, who has become wealthy overseas, confesses that he is Pip’s benefactor,…

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    …pursues Estella (now played by Valerie Hobson), despite her claims that she is not interested in him. Eventually, Pip encounters Abel Magwitch (Finlay Currie), an escaped convict to whom Pip as a child had once provided comfort. After Magwitch, who has become wealthy overseas, confesses that he is Pip’s benefactor,…

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  • Kind Hearts and Coronets
    Kind Hearts and Coronets
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