Above, a great Spanish poster for the Andre de Toth thriller Aguas turbias, better known as Dark Waters, with Merle Oberon as a woman living in a bayou mansion inhabited by dodgy relatives who may want to kill her. The film premiered in the U.S. in 1944 and reached Spain this month in 1946.
Merle Oberon, 1938
Merle Oberon photographed by George Hurrell
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Publicity Photo by Robert Coburn for “Beloved Enemy”
Dir. H.C. Potter, United Artists, USA, 1936
The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1934
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MERLE OBERON 1946
Merle Oberon, 1934.
Merle Oberon on set during the filming of “Folies Bergère de Paris” (1935)
Merle Oberon
Merle Oberon in a publicity shot for “Folies Bergère de Paris” (1935)
Merle Oberon
Happy Birthday Merle Oberon, born today in 1911.
Merle Oberon (19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was an Anglo-Indian actress. She began her film career in British films as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). After her success in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), she travelled to the United States to make films for Samuel Goldwyn. She was nominated for anAcademy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Dark Angel (1935). A traffic collision in 1937 caused facial injuries that could have ended her career, but she soon followed this with her most renowned performance in Wuthering Heights (1939).
Throughout her adult life, in order to conceal her Indian heritage she maintained the fiction that she was born in Tasmania, Australia; she concocted a story that all her school records had been destroyed in a fire, which meant it could be neither proven nor disproven. She maintained these fictions throughout her professional life. The year before she died she finally admitted this story was not true, and records located since her death have confirmed her true origin.
Merle Oberon
1934
