Merle Oberon
Merle Oberon, origin. Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson ( born February 19, 1911 in Bombay ( by its own account in Tasmania ); † November 23, 1979 in Malibu ), was an Anglo- Indian British actress.
Career
Merle Oberon grew up in British India. She attended La Martinère College in Calcutta. At the age of 17 she came to London.
Her acting career began here in the early 1930s. On the side of Charles Laughton she succeeded as Anne Boleyn in the film The Private Life of Henry VIII of breakthrough. You got a contract with Samuel Goldwyn and went in 1934 in the USA, where she had a successful career in Hollywood. Your first strip in the United States, the Folies Bergère on the side of Maurice Chevalier, 1935 was not a great success. Oberon then changed her make -up and later became the star of the movie The path in the darkness, which they showed to the side of Fredric March and earned her a nomination for Best Actress at the Academy Awards in 1936. For her performance in infamous lies, the film adaptation of the stage play The children hour by Lillian Hellman at the side of Joel McCrea and Miriam Hopkins, directed by William Wyler Oberon received good reviews. David O. Selznick hired her then for the film adaptation of The Garden of Allah, however, announced their contract, as Marlene Dietrich was released. Oberon got good 60.000.00 dollars in compensation. 1937 Oberon as Messalina was occupied in the film adaptation of the historical novel I, Claudius by Robert Graves alongside Charles Laughton as a Roman emperor Claudius, directed by Josef von Sternberg. The actress suffered during the filming of a serious car accident, from which they zurückbehielt her life scars on the face. After the accident, the shooting were hired. In 1939, she turned and directed by William Wyler Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte's novel, the film adaptation of the same name. She starred alongside Laurence Olivier and David Niven. Wyler and Oberon did not get along well together, but in the end offered the actress a very good representation. By the end of the 40's Oberon was a busy actress, but with the new decade, its presence has been reduced mainly on supporting roles.
The actress was known for her excellent business sense and put their fees on advantageous. They owned several residences, as well as in Acapulco and on the Riviera. In 1975 she married the 25 years younger actor Robert Wolders, whom she had met in 1973 during the filming of her last film Interval and lived the last years in luxurious seclusion.
In her first marriage, she was married to the director Alexander Korda from 1939 to 1945. In the same year she married the cameraman Lucien Ballard. This marriage lasted until the year 1949. A third marriage ensued from 1957 to 1973.