Victoria Hopper

Victoria Hopper (May 24, 1909 – January 22, 2007) was a Canadian-born British stage and film actress and singer.

Hopper was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and raised in Dunston, Gateshead, England. She was popular during the 1930s. She was married from August 1934 until 1939 to Basil Dean, a British stage and film writer, director, and producer. Dean grew interested in her because of her resemblance to a former lover, actress Meggie Albanesi, who had died in 1923. 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 began to wane. Two films she was scheduled to appear in, Grace Darling and Come Live with Me, never materialised.

Filmography

• The Constant Nymph (1933) as Tess Sanger
• Lorna Doone (1934) as Lorna Doone
• Whom the Gods Love (1936) as Constance Mozart
• The 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)

External links

• Victoria Hopper at the Internet Movie Database
• Article about Victoria Hopper. http://www.webwanderers.org/2006/04/victoria_hopper.html
• Victoria Hopper website. http://www.victoriahopper.co.uk/
• Victoria Hopper at Find a Grave

Bibliography

• Sweet, Matthew. Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema. Faber and Faber, 2005.

References

• The Independent, 03 February 2007: Obituaries: Victoria Hopper - Star of Thirties stage and screen