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Merle Oberon
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Actor Born: February 19, 1911 in Bombay, India Death: November 23, 1979 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:Born in India to an Indian mother and an Indo-Irish father, Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson spent an impoverished childhood in the subcontinent, before coming to England in 1928 where, among other things, she worked as a dance hostess before starting to pick up bit parts in movies in the early '30s, beginning with "Alf's Button" (1930). It was Hungarian-born film mogul "Alexander Korda" who first spotted Oberon's screen potential, and began giving her parts in his pictures, building her up toward stardom with role such as Anne Boleyn in "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (1933). Although she was an actress of very limited range, Oberon acquitted herself well in movies such as "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (1934), as Sir Percy Blakeney's wife, and her exotic good looks made her extremely appealing. She was cast opposite "Laurence Olivier" in the 1938 comedy "The Divorce of Lady X", which was shot in... Full Biography
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