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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Merle_OberonMerle Oberon - Wikipedia

    Merle Oberon (born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson; 19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was a British actress who began her film career in British films as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933).

  2. Mar 8, 2023 · Merle Oberon was born in India to a Sri Lankan mother and an Anglo-Irish father, but she hid her biracial origins and lied about her place of birth to become a Hollywood star. She was nominated for Best Actress in 1935 for The Dark Angel, but her life was marked by tragedy, lies and racism.

  3. www.imdb.com › name › nm0643353Merle Oberon - IMDb

    Merle Oberon was a British-born actress who starred in films such as The Scarlet Pimpernel, Wuthering Heights and The Dark Angel. She was nominated for an Oscar and retired from acting in 1963.

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  4. Feb 5, 2023 · One of the most glamorous stars of the 1930s and 40s in Hollywood, the exotic Merle Oberon had a secret, one she spent her lifetime protecting. In interviews like this one in 1934 with the publication The West Australian, Oberon kept up the fiction of her birth: “I was born in Tasmania but left there when I was a child.

  5. Merle Oberon was a British-born actress who starred in films such as The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Dark Angel and Wuthering Heights. She was married three times, including to producer Alexander Korda, and died in 1979.

    • February 19, 1911
    • November 23, 1979
  6. Apr 15, 2022 · Merle Oberon was a Hollywood actress of the black and white era, who was born in Bombay and kept her South Asian heritage a secret. She starred in classics like Wuthering Heights and The Private Life of Henry VIII, and was nominated for an Oscar in 1935.

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  8. Jan 27, 2023 · Born in India, Oberon is perhaps best known for her roles in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) and 1935's The Dark Angel — the latter of which nabbed her a Best Actress nod in 1936,...

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