Biography: Merle Oberon |
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... more
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Cast: Karl Malden
Tags: Ensemble Film Drama
Length: 135min
The posh St. Gregory Hotel in New Orleans is the setting for this drama based on a popular novel by Arthur Hailey. Trent (Melvyn Douglas) is the long-time owner who realizes that the hotel is in dire financial straits. Trent calls on faithful manager...
Cast: Stanley Donen Merle Oberon José Ferrer Gene Kelly Walter Pidgeon
Tags: Musical Showbiz Drama Biopic
Length: 132min
Deep in My Heart is the MGM-ified iography of composer Sigmund Romberg, here played by José Ferrer. Evidently the scripters didn't feel that the life of Romberg (as set down by author Elliott Arnold, whose book was used as the film's basis) had...
The Other World of Winston Churchill (1967)
Length: 51min
Although the late Sir Winston Churchill will be forever remembered as the Prime Minister who bravely led Britain through the darkest days of World War II. This documentary focuses on his passion for painting. Artists Lady Birley and Paul Maze give...
Tags: Drama
Length: 97min
Boiling over with sexual shenanigans and general sleaziness the Mexico-set tale centers on a confused socialite who falls in love with an American engineer who was hired by her half- brother to oversee his mining outfit. At first the attraction...
Cast: Jacques Tourneur
Tags: Action Thriller Spy Film Action Unglamorized Spy Film Thriller
Length: 86min
On a trip from France to Allied-occupied Berlin, a group of travelers -- a mysterious and very secretive European woman (Merle Oberon), an American agricultural expert (Robert Ryan), a British educator (Robert Coote), a Soviet Army officer (Roman...
Cast: Paul Henreid
Length: 82min
Filmed on location, the Franco-American co-production Pardon My French stars Merle Oberon and Paul Henreid. Oberon is cast against type as Elizabeth Rockwell, a staid Bostonian schoolmarm who insists that all "squatters" remove themselves from the...
Length: 79min
In this drama, a man is falsely accused of committing two murders, one of which is committed at the dog-track. Now he is pursued by the police and gangsters. To escape the latter, the fleeing fellow dives into a handy car, driven by the woman who...
Cast: Marlon Brando Jean Simmons
Tags: Romantic Drama Historical Epic Drama Historical Film Romance
Length: 115min
Director Henry Koster and writer Daniel Taradash speculate mightily in this historical tableau charting the rise and fall of Napoleon (Marlon Brando), all due to his unrequited love for noblewoman Desiree (Jean Simmons). The film takes a chronological...
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Romance
Length: 90min
Originally titled 24 Hours in a Woman's Life, the British Affair in Monte Carlo stars Merle Oberon and Richard Todd. A compulsive gambler, Todd is on the verge of disgrace and ruin. Ms. Oberon makes it her mission in life to save Todd from himself....
Cast: Ethel Barrymore Dana Andrews
Length: 102min
In this melodrama, a brilliant pianist is struck blind in an accident and stops working on his equally brilliant concerto. A wealthy woman pretends to be poor and blind to help him regain his confidence, and holds a contest with a large prize for the...
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