Victoria Hopper
{{Short description|British stage and film actress and singer (1909–2007)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Victoria Hopper
| image = Actress_Victoria_Hopper.jpg
| caption = Publicity still
| birth_date ={{Birth date|df=yes|1909|05|24}}
| birth_place = Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2007|01|22|1909|05|24}}
| death_place = Romney Marsh, Kent, England, UK
| nationality = British
| occupation = Actress
| known_for = Lorna Doone
}}
Victoria Hopper (24 May 1909 – 22 January 2007) was a Canadian-born British stage and film actress and singer.{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f7cbee4|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125074033/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f7cbee4|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 November 2018|title=Victoria Hopper}}
Biography
Victoria Evelyn Hopper was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and brought up in North East England.{{cite web|url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/obituaries/2007/victoria-hopper/|title=Victoria Hopper - Obituaries - The Stage|date=26 April 2007}} She studied acting and singing at the Webber-Douglas School of Singing, and was talent spotted in a school production and cast in the title role in a West End play, Martine in 1933. She was at the peak of her popularity during the 1930s. She was married from August 1934 until 1939 to Basil Dean, a British stage and film writer, director and producer.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/victoria-hopper-434840.html|title=Victoria Hopper| website=Independent.co.uk | date=3 February 2007 }} Dean reportedly grew interested in Hooper due to her resemblance to his former lover, actress Meggie Albanesi (died 1923).{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1544555/Victoria-Hopper.html|title=Victoria Hopper|date=5 March 2007|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}
Dean promoted Hopper's career and cast her as the leading lady in several major films for Associated Talking Pictures in the mid-1930s. However, the films did badly at the box office and her career waned. Two films she was scheduled to appear in, Grace Darling and Come Live with Me, never materialised.Sweet, p. 142
Filmography
- The Constant Nymph (1933) as Tess Sanger
- Lorna Doone (1934) as Lorna Doone
- Whom the Gods Love (1936) as Constanze Mozart
- Lonely Road (released in the US as Scotland Yard Commands) (1936) as Molly Gordon
- Laburnum Grove (1936) as Elsie Radfern
- The Mill on the Floss (1937) as Lucy Deane
- The Constant Nymph (1938, TV film) as Tessa Sanger
- Nine Till Six (1938, TV film)
- Cornelius (1938, TV film)
- London Wall (1938, TV film) as Pat Milligan
- Magic (1939, TV film) as Patricia Carleon
- The Rose Without a Thorn (1947, TV film)
- Escape from Broadmoor (1948)
Theatre roles
- Three Sisters (1934) as Mary (Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London) (from 30 April)
- Cornelius (1935) as Judy Evison (Duchess Theatre, Aldwych, London) (from 8 April)
- The Melody That Got Lost (1936) as Edith (Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage, London) (26 December)
- Autumn (1937) as Monica Brooke (St. Martin's Theatre, London)
- Autumn (1938) as Monica Brooke (Touring production, Leeds - 19 May for one week)
- Drawing Room (1938) as Sylvia (Touring production) (Theatre Royal, Brighton, 19 June for one week)
- Johnson Over Jordan (1939) as Freda Johnson (Saville Theatre, London)
- The Dominant Sex (1941) as Angela Shale (Touring production?) (Theatre Royal, Hanley, from 2 March)
- The Shop on Sly Corner (1945) as Margaret Heiss (St. Martin's Theatre, London)
- Vanity Fair (1946) as Amelia Sedley (Comedy Theatre, London) (29 October 1946 - 21 December 1946)
- Once Upon a Crime (1948) (Theatre Royal Birmingham) (Commenced Monday, 21 June)
- Serious Charge (1955) as Hester Byfield (Garrick Theatre, London) (From 17 February)
Bibliography
- Sweet, Matthew. Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema, Faber and Faber (16 February 2006); {{ISBN|0571212980}}/{{ISBN|978-0571212989}}
References
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Sources
- [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/victoria-hopper-434840.html Obituary: Victoria Hopper], independent.co.uk; 3 February 2007.
External links
- {{IMDb name|0394435}}
- [http://www.victoriahopper.co.uk Victoria Hopper website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518133012/http://victoriahopper.co.uk/ |date=18 May 2013 }}
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Category:Actresses from Vancouver
Category:Canadian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Category:Canadian musical theatre actresses
Category:Canadian film actresses
Category:Canadian stage actresses
Category:Canadian television actresses
Category:English musical theatre actresses
Category:English film actresses
Category:English stage actresses
Category:English television actresses
Category:Singers from Vancouver
Category:Actors from Gateshead
Category:Actresses from Tyne and Wear
Category:Musicians from Tyne and Wear
Category:20th-century English women singers