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9 unusual facts about Merle Oberon


Bonita Granville

Renamed These Three, a 1936 film that told the story of three adults (played by Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, and Joel McCrea) who find their lives almost destroyed by the malicious lies of an evil attention-seeking child.

Charles Korvin

He worked steadily through the 1940s, including appearing in three films with actress Merle Oberon.

Dans la vie tout s'arrange

Dans la vie tout s'arrange is a 1952 French comedy film directed by Marcel Cravenne and starring Merle Oberon, Paul Henreid and Jim Gérald.

Hills House, Denham

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, it was the home of Merle Oberon and her husband Sir Alexander Korda.

Honeymoon in Bali

In 1936 Paramount announced a film of Our Miss Keane to star Merle Oberon to be produced.

Kutcha butcha

Famous actresses such as Merle Oberon and Vivian Leigh hid their Anglo-Indian ancestry, as did ex-Beatle Pete Best.

Men of Tomorrow

Robert Donat and Merle Oberon were given top billing when Men of Tomorrow was distributed in the United States in 1935.

Michael Korda

Among Korda's better-known books are Charmed Lives, which was a memoir about his life with his father and uncle, and the novel Queenie, which is a roman à clef about his aunt, actress Merle Oberon, which was later adapted into a television miniseries.

The Private Life of Don Juan

The Private Life of Don Juan is a 1934 British historical comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon and Benita Hume.


Francis Rattenbury

In 1937, playwright and actor Emlyn Williams suggested to producer Alexander Korda the idea of making a film about "the Rattenbury murder case" with actors Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon.

Irene Galitzine

Since then, her creations have been worn by some of the most famous women in the world such as Sofia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Lee Radzwill, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Ira von Fürstenberg, Queen Paola of Belgium, Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, Duchess of Windsor, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Merle Oberon, Audrey Hepburn, Marella Agnelli, Greta Garbo, Catherine Spaak, Pamela Churchill Harriman and Claudia Cardinale.

The Lady from Boston

The Lady from Boston is a 1951 French-American comedy film directed by Bernard Vorhaus and starring Paul Henreid, Merle Oberon and Paul Bonifas.


see also

The Children's Hour

Its film adaptations, These Three (1936) starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, and The Children's Hour (film) (1961), with Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, and James Garner.