Merle Oberon
- Acting
- February 19, 1911 · Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India [now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India]
- November 23, 1979
Biography
Merle Oberon (born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson; 19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was a British actress of Sri Lankan Burgher origin. Her career spanned the 1920s to the 1970s, and she was a major leading lady during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Born and raised in British India, she began her acting career in British cinema in the early 1930s, with a breakout role in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). She later moved to Hollywood, where she became an international star, earning acclaim for films such as The Dark Angel (1935), Wuthering Heights (1939), and That Uncertain Feeling (1941). Her performance as Kitty Vane in The Dark Angel earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Oberon's other notable roles included A Song to Remember (1945), Berlin Express (1948), and Désirée (1954). A traffic collision in 1937 caused facial injuries that nearly ended her career, but she recovered and remained active in film and television until 1973. Description above from the Wikipedia article Merle Oberon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known for
Filmography
- Charmed Lives: A Family Romance · Self
- Churchill and the Movie Mogul · Self
- The Trouble with Merle · Self
- Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One · Self
- Interval · Serena Moore, Producer
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... · Self
- The Epic That Never Was · Self
- Hotel · The Duchess Caroline
- The Oscar · Merle Oberon
- Of Love and Desire · Katherine Beckmann
- The DuPont Show of the Week · Self
- Assignment Foreign Legion
- The Price of Fear · Jessica Warren
- The 20th Century Fox Hour
- Deep in My Heart · Dorothy Donnelly
- Désirée · Empress Josephine
- All Is Possible in Granada · Margaret Faulson
- Letter to Loretta · Self
- The Oscars · Self
- General Electric Theater · Mata Hari
- Four Star Playhouse · Martha, Margot Sterling
- 24 Hours of a Woman's Life · Linda Venning
- Dans la vie tout s'arrange · Elizabeth Rockwell
- Hallmark Hall of Fame · Self
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars · Self
- Pardon My French · Elizabeth Rockwell
- The Colgate Comedy Hour · Self
- What's My Line? · Self
- The Ed Sullivan Show · Self
- Berlin Express · Lucienne Mirbeau
- Night Song · Cathy Mallory
- Temptation · Ruby
- Night in Paradise · Delarai
- This Love of Ours · Karin Touzac
- A Song to Remember · George Sand
- Dark Waters · Leslie Calvin
- The Lodger · Kitty Langley
- First Comes Courage · Nicole Larsen
- Stage Door Canteen · Merle Oberon
- Forever and a Day · Marjorie Ismay
- Lydia · Lydia MacMillan
- Affectionately Yours · Sue Mayberry
- That Uncertain Feeling · Jill Baker
- Breakdowns of 1940 · Self
- 'Til We Meet Again · Joan Ames
- The Lion Has Wings · Mrs. Richardson
- Over the Moon · Jane Benson
- Wuthering Heights · Catherine 'Cathy' Earnshaw Linton
- The Cowboy and the Lady · Mary Smith
- Hollywood Goes to Town · Self
- The Divorce of Lady X · Leslie Steele / Lady Claire Mere
- I, Claudius · Messalina
- Beloved Enemy · Helen Drummond
- Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) · Self
- These Three · Karen Wright
- The Dark Angel · Kitty Vane
- Folies Bergère de Paris · Opera Singer (umcredited)
- The Scarlet Pimpernel · Lady Marguerite Blakeney
- The Broken Melody · Germaine Brissard
- The Battle · Mitsuko Yorisaka
- The Private Life of Don Juan · Antonita, a Dancer of Passionate Temperament
- The Private Life of Henry VIII · Anne Boleyn
- For the Love of Mike · Bit Part
- Wedding Rehearsal · Miss Hutchinson
- Men of Tomorrow · Ysobel d'Aunay
- Aren't We All? · Bit Part
- Ebb Tide · (uncredited)
- Service for Ladies · Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
- Fascination · Flower Seller
- Never Trouble Trouble · Minor Role
- A Warm Corner · Bit Part (uncredited)
- The Three Passions · Bit Part (uncredited)