Merle Oberon
Acting
Born 1911-02-19
Died 1979-11-23
Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India [now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India]
72 credits
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Awards
Nominated for 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 nominated
- 1936 Best Actress Nominated The Dark Angel
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
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Merle Oberon (born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson; 19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was a British actress of Anglo-Indian origin. Her career spanned from 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.
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Filmography
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Acting
58 credits
What's My Line?
Four Star Playhouse
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Oscars
The Ed Sullivan Show
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Wuthering Heights
Letter to Loretta
The Oscar
Désirée
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The DuPont Show of the Week
General Electric Theater
The Lodger
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Hotel
Stage Door Canteen
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The Cowboy and the Lady
Berlin Express
Forever and a Day
That Uncertain Feeling
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Folies Bergère de Paris
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
A Song to Remember
The Dark Angel
Affectionately Yours
Ebb Tide
Night in Paradise
These Three
Night Song
The Private Life of Don Juan
Deep in My Heart
All Is Possible in Granada
Over the Moon
Beloved Enemy
The Divorce of Lady X
Dark Waters
Fascination
The Battle
Lydia
'Til We Meet Again
Hollywood Goes to Town
Charmed Lives: A Family Romance
The Price of Fear
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
The Three Passions
First Comes Courage
Aren't We All?
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
Wedding Rehearsal
Temptation
Breakdowns of 1940
The Lion Has Wings
Dans la vie tout s'arrange
Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One
This Love of Ours
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