Merle Oberon

[gracelikerain]

Thank you for the beautiful pictures I hadn't heard of her until tonight. Now I really want to see Wuthering Heights..

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1946 Courtesy of Universal Pictures and The Kobal Collection

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[Boomer]

Thanks for another wonderful thread!! Beautiful Merle. (The Movie Store)

 

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British actors Merle Oberon (1911 - 1979) and David Niven (1909 - 1983). Niven covered up their affair until his death to protect her reputation. She evidently did much to advance his career behind the scenes...It was not until Sheraton Morley did his amazing biography of Niven that the full extent of their involvement became known- 50 years after the fact. (Getty)

 

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Still from the film "First Comes Courage' -1943
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1945: Indian-born actress Merle Oberon stars as French novelist George Sand in Charles Vidor's 'A Song to Remember', a biopic of Polish composer Frederic Chopin. (Getty)

 

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American actor Van Johnson links arms with his wife, Evie (L), and British actor Merle Oberon at the premiere of American actor and singer Judy Garland, Los Angeles Philharmonic Concert Hall, California. Oberon's date, Dr. Rex Ross, stands at right. circa 1954. (Getty)

 

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[Boomer]

I was just watching her the other day in The Scarlett Pimpernel with Leslie Howard..How very different she could look in different roles!

 

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With her great friend Norma Shearer

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[dinahgrace]

I heard that the movie Queenie, played by Mia Sara, was based on her life story.

 

[somnambule]

ah,beautiful picture above ^.i think i will never forgive her for ruining catherine in wuthering heights.that whiny,fragile sweet little daisy had nothing to do with the catherine from the book.the book-catherine is a tempestuous,passionate,head-strong persona,heathcliff´s female counterpart.i didn´t see much of that in merle oberon´s performance.well,to her favour i have to say that this film version as a whole mutilated the book tremendously and is far,far away from its contents. yet laurence olivier played heathcliff so welll,that he ´s nevertheless my favourite film-heathcliff and i would have loved to see him as heathcliff in the more authentic wuthering heights version with ralph fiennes (as much as i love ralph fiennes he was a rather mediocre heathcliff,he later said so himself).well,however,merle oberon was a beautiful ,fragile butterfly being...

dinahgrace,i saw that film too and read that it was based on merle oberon´s life.

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I didn't know the story about her hidden origins, very interesting.



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lovely photos!

ah,beautiful picture above ^.i think i will never forgive her for ruining catherine in wuthering heights.that whiny,fragile sweet little daisy had nothing to do with the catherine from the book.the book-catherine is a tempestuous,passionate,head-strong persona,heathcliff´s female counterpart.i didn´t see much of that in merle oberon´s performance.well,to her favour i have to say that this film version as a whole mutilated the book tremendously and is far,far away from its contents. yet laurence olivier played heathcliff so welll,that he ´s nevertheless my favourite film-heathcliff and i would have loved to see him as heathcliff in the more authentic wuthering heights version with ralph fiennes (as much as i love ralph fiennes he was a rather mediocre heathcliff,he later said so himself).well,however,merle oberon was a beautiful ,fragile butterfly being...

dinahgrace,i saw that film too and read that it was based on merle oberon´s life.

Its quite a hard to find film now. Im glad to have seen it too.

Though, the only version of wuthering heights i have seen is her version, and i agree with you about her character in the film, Cathy is really bitchy in the book. But what about the 1970s film with Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff? I have yet to see it but i read that his was the best adaptation of Heathcliff:

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