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	Merle Oberon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oberon's career went on to greater heights partly as a result of her relationship with and later marriage to director Alexander Korda, who had persuaded her to take the name under which she became famous.
		Merle Oberon was scarred for life, but skilled lighting technicians prevented her injuries being spotted by cinema audiences.
		Merle Oberon divorced Sir Alexander Korda in 1945, to marry cinematographer Lucien Ballard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Merle_Oberon (844 words)

	Denny Jackson's Merle Oberon Page
		Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson was born in India on February 19, 1911 to a racially mixed Anglo-Indian mother and white Australian father.
		Merle began her career in British films with mostly forgettable roles on her part.
		Afterwards, Merle lived in quiet retirement until her death of a massive stroke on November 23, 1979 in Malibu, California.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/2440/oberon.html (430 words)

	The legend of Merle - theage.com.au
		Oberon, according to a biography that read like a Hollywood film script, had been born in Hobart, the daughter of an upper-class white colonial family.
		To them, Oberon was the illegitimate daughter of a Chinese hotel worker, Lottie Chintock, who lived in the north-east and gave birth to her in Hobart.
		Estelle Merle Thompson, nicknamed "Queenie Thompson", was born in Mumbai on February 19, 1911.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/08/20/1029114104294.html (1249 words)

	Special Collections Manuscripts - Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		Oberon was less active in the 1950s; her major screen appearances were in Desiree (20th Century-Fox, 1945) and Deep in My Heart (MGM, 1954).
		Oberon produced and starred in her final film, Interval (Avco Embassy, 1973), opposite Robert Wolders, whom she married in 1975, having divorced Pagliai in 1973.
		Oberon's scrapbooks are an excellent source of information covering her career from 1932 to 1939 and from 1945 to 1947.
	www.oscars.org /mhl/sc/oberon_127.html (475 words)

	Bulletin - Apple of her isle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		But as Delofski discovers as she follows every lead about Oberon’s parentage both in Tasmania and abroad, there is now little reason to think her Tasmanian connection was anything but a fantasy concocted by British studio publicists to account for Oberon’s exotic beauty in a period when mixed-race actresses were unacceptable.
		According to a 1985 biography, Merle Oberon was actually Anglo-Indian, born in Calcutta in 1911.
		Her prey is the enigmatic Oberon, who went to her grave without completely severing her links with Tasmania (her final comment on the matter was that she’d been born on a ship that had been passing through Tasmania at the time).
	bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/eddesk.nsf/All/C8A45E2B8726E3A2CA256C16001714BC (369 words)

	Biography for Merle Oberon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Merle Oberon was born in Bombay, of mixed Welsh-Indian parentage, as Estelle "Queenie" Thompson.
		Merle Oberon and Alexander Korda married in 1939 and she became the first Lady Korda when he was knighted.
		In 1935 Korda sold "shares" in Oberon's contract to Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn, who immediately put her in his lavish WW1 drama, The Dark Angel (1935), for which she was Oscarnominated.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0643353/bio (1391 words)

	Merle Oberon: The "Trouble" With Merle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Oberon clung to this fiction for the rest of her life.
		The truth came out in a posthumous biography: Oberon was Anglo-Indian in an era where a mixed-raced background would have been enough to keep her from starring in British and American films.
		The regal and stylish Merle Oberon was one of the biggest movie stars of the 1930s and 1940s.
	www.chiptaylor.com /ttlmnp3628-.cfm (227 words)

	Merle Oberon -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In this poem Oberon is a dwarf-king, living in the woodland, who by magic powers helps the hero to accomplish a seemingly impossible task.
		In the legendary history of the Merovingian dynasty Oberon is a magician, the brother of Merowech (Mérovée).
		In the legendary history of the Frankish Merovingian Dynasty, Oberon is a magician, the brother of King Merowech...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9056638 (584 words)

	ABC TV Documentaries: The Trouble With Merle
		But instead of subscribing to the studio story of Merle’s Tasmanian birth and its fantasy of wealth, class and “whiteness”, the Tasmanians I spoke to were adamant that the film star was the daughter of a Tasmanian woman called Lottie Chintock from the now-disappeared Chinese tin mining community in the north-east of the island.
		Merle had died in 1979, but 23 years later many Tasmanians were still concerned that Charles Higham’s biography was “taking Merle away” from them and were very enthusiastic about speaking in the film and putting their side of the story.
		What he had in fact discovered when he found Merle’s birth certificate deep in the bowels of the Indian government records office, was a deeply guarded family secret of which even he was unaware: Merle Oberon was not his aunt, she was his sister.
	www.abc.net.au /tv/documentaries/stories/s657300.htm (2048 words)

	Merle Oberon Part II
		In 1938, Merle was delighted to learn she had been chosen to play the lead role of Cathy in the movie version of Wuthering Heights(1939).
		Merle needed to preserve her beauty at all costs.
		Merle was changed now though; on the set she became increasingly irritable, demanding, and nervous.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/7810/65518 (514 words)

	Australians in Hollywood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Although some sources still identify Merle Oberon (1911-1979) as having been born in Tasmania, it is now generally believed that she was born and raised in India.
		Oberon was obliged to maintain the fiction for the whole of her career — only a year before her death she attended a “homecoming” reception in Hobart thrown by the Mayor.
		Moreover, when her Singhalese mother stayed with Oberon in Hollywood, she was obliged to pose as Merle's maid.
	www.portrait.gov.au /content/exhibit/hollywood/content/b57.htm (190 words)

	Merle Oberon: The Imperial Beauty
		On February 19, 1911, Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson was born in Bombay, India.
		In 1914, Merle's father died of Pneumonia on the front lines of the war between Germany and England.
		Merle received a foundation (a sort of scholarship) to go to a good school.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/classic_actresses/65489 (476 words)

	Merle Oberon @ Filmbug UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Merle Oberon, born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson, was a film actress, known for her sultry looks.
		Born in Bombay, India to an Anglo-Irish father and an Anglo-Sinhalese mother, Constance Selby, who gave birth to Merle at the age of 15 and allowed her to be raised as her sister, Merle came to England for the first time in 1928.
		Throughout her life, Oberon maintained that she had been born in Tasmania, Australia.
	www.filmbug.co.uk /db/22441 (442 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Merle Oberon : Biography
		It was Hungarian-born film mogul Alexander Korda who first spotted Oberon's screen potential, and began giving her parts in his pictures, building her up toward stardom with role such as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933).
		Although she was an actress of very limited range, Oberon acquitted herself well in movies such as The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), as Sir Percy Blakeney's wife, and her exotic good looks made her extremely appealing.
		Oberon re-emerged only occasionally after the early '50s, until 1973 when she starred in, produced, and co-edited Interval, a strange romantic drama that costarred her future husband Robert Wolders, that failed to find good reviews or an audience.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/47378/bio.jhtml (299 words)

	merle oberon \| biography (1911-79)
		It was Hungarian-born film mogul Alexander Korda who first spotted Oberon's screen potential, and began giving her parts in his pictures, building her up toward stardom with role such as Anne Boleyn in
		Mounted on the side of the camera, the device lights the subject head on, thus reducing the incidence of unflattering facial lines and shadows.
		Oberon re-emerged only occasionally after the early '50s, until 1973 when she starred in, produced, and co-edited
	www.leninimports.com /merle_oberon_biography.html (451 words)

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		However, Merle Oberon in the movie just shows the side of Catherine, whose love seemed more fluffy than deep.
		She plays up the evil side of Catherine much more than Merle Oberon did in William Wyler's version.
		She responds: "I keep it caged because I love it." This is a symbol to Alejandro, played by Jorge Mistral; it is as if she is keeping him caged because she loves him.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/5426/dilian.html (595 words)

	André de Toth (1913-2002) - An Interview
		The character that Merle Oberon plays, Leslie, this character had been rescued after being in a lifeboat at sea for two weeks.
		Merle turned to me and asked shyly, “Bundy, could I have it once more?” I always assume that actors are looking for the best performance, so, “Sure.
		He wanted to protect Merle but he understood that, for the performance to work, she might have to look awful, like she was exhausted and helpless.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/03/25/de_toth_interview.html (4163 words)

	Oberon
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	www.infoplease.com /ce6/sci/A0836284.html (226 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - The Trouble With Merle
		Only after Oberon's death, in 1979, did biographer Charles Higham reveal that Oberon was not from Tasmania but was, in fact, an Anglo-Indian.
		Though the stories conflict in the minor details, the essence is that she was born in 1911, the daughter of Lottie Chintock, a Chinese maid who worked at the Hotel Weldborough in a village near St. Helen's.
		These questions go largely unanswered, as does the vital question of what happened to Lottie Chintock's daughter if Oberon was really born in India?Delofski is more interested in Oberon's background than in her career, and the fact that not even a clip from "Wuthering Heights" is included diminishes buff interest in the film.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117918032?categoryid=31&cs=1 (835 words)

	Merle Oberon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Darkly striking lead, raised in India from the age of seven and discovered by Alexander Korda (to whom she was married from 1939 to 1945) while working as a film extra in England.
		Combining a slightly frosty reserve and a distinctive British accent with a somewhat exotic beauty which suggested a passionate nature, Oberon achieved immediate fame after Korda cast her as Anne Boleyn in "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (1933).
		She went on to star in a number of British films, notably "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1935), and, beginning with "The Dark Angel" and "Folies Bergere" (both 1935), was primarily based in Hollywood, initially under the aegis of Samuel Goldwyn Productions....
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/celeb/194635 (208 words)

	Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Merle Oberon: MAIN
		Born in India to an Indian mother and an Indo-Irish father, Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson spent an impoverished childhood in the subcontinent,...
		Merle Oberon was scarred for life, but skilled lighting technicians prevented her injuries being...
		Merle Oberon divorced Sir Alexander Korda in 1945,...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/main.adp?sid=53758 (206 words)

	channel4.com/film - Merle Oberon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Born and educated in India, Oberon moved to London in the late 1920's to pursue a film career under the pseudonym Queenie O'Brien.
		Producer (and first husband) Alexander Korda persuaded her to take the name Merle Oberon and cast her in a succession of costume dramas including The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935).
		Korda's decision to 'share' Oberon with Hollywood mogul Samuel Goldwyn led to an Oscar nomination for her part in his WW1 drama The Dark Angel (1935).
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/person.jsp?id=19126 (193 words)

	Merle Oberon
		Regal and stylish, Oberon played bit parts in the British film industry before her future husband, producer Alexander Korda, cast her in several costume dramas.
		Why Merle Oberon's great niece is going one stage further.
		Oberon, Merle (1911-1979)(Stage name of Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson) (The Hutchinson Dictionary of the Arts)
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0761162.html (169 words)

	Merle Oberon Current Month TV Schedule
		Starring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Anthony Bushell, Melville Cooper, O B Clarence, Bramwell Fletcher, Joan Gardner, Edmund Breon.
		Starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet, Bonita Granville, Margaret Hamilton, Walter Brennan, Alma Kruger, Marcia Mae Jones, Frank McGlynn Sr.
		Starring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Miles Mander, Leo G Carroll, Hugh Williams, Cecil Humphreys.
	www.tv-now.com /stars/merleo.html (344 words)

	Merle Oberon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson, raised and educated in India from age seven, she arrived in London at 17 and began her career as a café hostess, under the name Queenie O'Brien.
		She entered British films as an extra in 1928 and played bits in a number of productions as Estelle Thompson before being discovered and groomed to stardom by Alexander Korda, whom she married in 1939 and divorced in 1945.
		She later married for the fourth time, to her co-star in that film, Robert Wolders, a man many years her junior, who ironically had played in INTERVAL the role of a younger man who falls in love with the aging Oberon.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho/oberon_m.htm (370 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Wuthering Heights [1939]: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		I love the book and was looking forward to watching the much raved about film version with Olivier and Oberon playing the central characters of Heathcliff and Catherine.
		I thought Olivier as Heathcliff was well played except for the opening scenes but Oberon as Catherine did nothing for me, her character came across as dull and displayed none of the passion that comes across in the book.
		Merle Oberon is perfect as the beautiful yet stubborn Cathy and Laurence Olivier gives a masterful performance as the troubled Heathcliffe.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004RTE7 (1021 words)

	Amazon.com: Divorce of Lady X (1938) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Merle Oberon is the vivacious and mysterious "Lady X" that attourney Laurence Olivier becomes enamored of, and although she completely butchers her accent (SHE'S an American?
		He easily falls in love with her but thinks that she is a wicked woman who's been married several times.
		This is a must see for any Olivier and Oberon fan and for anyone else who loves no brainer type flicks.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6301394933?v=glance (970 words)

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