Merle OberonFilmography

The Other World of Winston Churchill

Actors: Merle Oberon, Sian Phillips

Synopsis: 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 their professional insight on Churchill's work Read More

Hotel

Actors: Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Karl Malden, Melvyn Douglas, Merle Oberon

Synopsis: 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 Peter McDermott (Rod Taylor) to try and bring Read More

The Oscar

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: A heartless actor scrambles to the top of show business' sleazy summit in this drama. Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) is a Hollywood leading man who is desperate to boost his career by winning an Academy Award, and he doesn't care who he has to betray to achieve his goals -- including his former best Read More

The Epic That Never Was

Synopsis: This British television documentary, hosted by Dirk Bogarde, is about the aborted 1937 film I Claudius. The film, directed by Josef Von Sternberg and produced by Alexander Korda with an all-star cast, was shut down after only a few weeks of filming, reportedly because of its extravagant cost. This Read More

Of Love and Desire

Actors: Merle Oberon, Steve Cochran, Curd Jürgens, John Agar, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: 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 between the girl and the Yank is purely sexual, but Read More

The Price of Fear

Actors: Merle Oberon, Lex Barker, Charles Drake, Gia Scala, Warren Stevens

Synopsis: 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 really committed the hit-and-run. Mayhem ensues Read More

Heart of a Woman

Synopsis: Heart of a Woman was the first presentation of the TV anthology The 20th Century-Fox Hour. Merle Oberon, Michael Wilding and Marcia Henderson star in this saga of a well-to-do British family. The story opens with the family patriarch (Wilding) marching off to the Boer war at the turn of the Read More

Desiree

Actors: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie, Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis: 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 view of Napoleon's reign and posits Napoleon's Read More

Todo Es Posible En Granada

Deep in My Heart

Actors: José Ferrer, Helen Traubel, Merle Oberon, Walter Pidgeon, Doe Avedon

Synopsis: Deep in My Heart is the MGM-ified biography 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 enough drama to fill out two hours and ten minutes. Read More

Affair in Monte Carlo

Actors: Merle Oberon, Richard Todd, Leo Genn, Peter Jones, Joan Dowling

Synopsis: 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. The story is told from the point of view of Read More

Pardon My French

Actors: Paul Henreid, Merle Oberon, Maximilienne, Paul Bonifas, Jim Gérald

Synopsis: 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 French chateau she's just inherited. The head Read More

Bonnes Vacances Elisabeth

Actors: Merle Oberon, Paul Henreid, Alexandre Rignault, Maximilienne

Dans La Vie Tout S' Arrange

Actors: Merle Oberon, Paul Henreid, Jim Gérald, Maximilienne

Berlin Express

Actors: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas, Robert Coote

Synopsis: 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 Toporow), and a French official (Charles Korvin) Read More

Night Song

Actors: Dana Andrews, Merle Oberon, Ethel Barrymore, Hoagy Carmichael, Jacqueline White

Synopsis: 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 best musical composition. She, as the blind Read More

Temptation

Actors: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas, Lenore Ulric

Synopsis: Temptation is an appropriately moody romantic melodrama, providing a golden opportunity for some memorable histrionics by star Merle Oberon. Set in Egypt (courtesy of the Universal backlot), the film casts Oberon as Ruby, the new wife of wealthy archaeologist Nigel (George Brent). Unbeknownst to Read More

A Night in Paradise

Actors: Merle Oberon, Turhan Bey, Thomas Gomez, Gale Sondergaard, Ray Collins

Synopsis: If Grecian storyteller Aesop really did exist, he was most likely a black slave. He wasn't an Austrian actor with an Egyptian name, but that's who played him in A Night in Paradise. Turhan Bey portrays the fable-spouting Aesop, who tries to escape his bondage by disguising himself as an old man. Read More

This Love of Ours

Actors: Merle Oberon, Charles Korvin, Claude Rains, Carl Esmond, Sue England

Synopsis: Doctor Charles Korvin walks out on his musician wife Merle Oberon when he suspects her of infidelity. Twelve years later their paths cross again; Oberon is now saddled with an abusive husband. Possessed of a protective instinct that he hadn't evinced in the first part of the film, Korvin rescues Read More

A Song to Remember

Actors: Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Cornel Wilde, Stephen Bekassy, George Coulouris, Nina Foch

Synopsis: One of the most successful filmed biographies of the 1940s, A Song to Remember alleges to be the true story of Polish composer Frederick Chopin. Actually, it has about as much relation to truth as a Heckle and Jeckle cartoon, but with such gorgeous creatures as Cornel Wilde and Merle Oberon in the Read More

Dark Waters

Actors: Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter, Rex Ingram, John Qualen

Synopsis: Adapted from a Saturday Evening Post serial by Frank and Marian Cockrell, Dark Waters stars Merle Oberon as heiress Leslie Calvin, a woman with a neurotic aversion to water. This stems from the fact that in her childhood, Leslie was one of four survivors of a torpedoed steamship. Preying upon Read More

The Lodger

Actors: Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Laird Cregar, Cedric Hardwicke, Sara Allgood

Synopsis: The Lodger was the third film version of Mrs. Marie Belloc-Lowndes' classic "Jack the Ripper" novel, and in many eyes it was the best (even allowing for the excellence of the 1925 Alfred Hitchcock adaptation). Laird Cregar stars as the title character, a mysterious, secretive young man who rents a Read More

Forever and a Day

Actors: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Gladys Cooper, Ida Lupino, C. Aubrey Smith, Claude Rains, Robert Cummings, Anna Neagle, Roland Young

Synopsis: The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people turned over their salaries to British war relief -- a point driven home during the lengthy opening credits by an unseen narrator. The true star of the film is a stately old Read More

Stage Door Canteen

Actors: Cheryl Walker, William Terry, Marjorie Riordan, Lon McCallister, Margaret Early

Synopsis: This star-studded musical drama was largely financed by Theatre Guild, with all proceeds going to various wartime fundraising concerns. Most of the story takes place at the Stage Door Canteen, a Manhattan-based home away from home for soldiers, sailors and marines (the real-life Canteen on 44th Read More

First Comes Courage

Actors: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Carl Esmond, Fritz Leiber, Erville Alderson

Synopsis: With Dorothy Arzner in the director's chair, it's no wonder that First Comes Courage has a more feminist slant than most WWII "underground" films. Merle Oberon plays Nicole Larsen, a member of the Norwegian resistance. To obtain important war information, Nicole romances Nazi major Paul Dichter Carl Esmond Read More

Affectionately Yours

Actors: Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan, Rita Hayworth, Ralph Bellamy, George Tobias

Synopsis: Affectionately Yours offers the spectacle of glamorous Merle Oberon and gorgeous Rita Hayworth jockeying for the best camera positions, virtually pushing male leads Dennis Morgan and Ralph Bellamy right off the screen! Here's the deal: Neglected wife Sue Marberry (Oberon) obtains a quickie Nevada Read More

That Uncertain Feeling

Actors: Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith, Alan Mowbray, Olive Blakeney

Synopsis: Ernst Lubitsch's That Uncertain Feeling was previously filmed by the director in 1925 as Kiss Me Again; both versions were inspired the Victorien Sardou-Emile de Najac bedroom farce Let's Get a Divorce. Six year into her marriage to preoccupied insurance salesman Larry Baker (Melvyn Douglas), Jill Read More

Lydia

Actors: Merle Oberon, Edna May Oliver, Alan Marshal, Joseph Cotten, Hans Yaray

Synopsis: Adapted from a French movie entitled Un Carnet de Bal, this is a story of love unrequited. In one of her best performances, Merle Oberon portrays an elderly woman who has spent her life waiting for a man whom she had a brief liaison with but who never returned for her as he had promised. Casting Read More

The Lion Has Wings

Actors: Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, Flora Robson, Robert Douglas

Synopsis: The semidocumentary war film The Lion Has Wings states its case in broad strokes, juxtaposing images of rampaging German-dictator Adolf Hitler and appeasing British prime minister Neville Chamberlain with stock shots of bleating sheep. The film then depicts Great Britain as a great lion, willing Read More

'Til We Meet Again

Actors: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Pat O'Brien, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Binnie Barnes

Synopsis: 'Til We Meet Again is an inflated remake of 1932's One Way Passage. As in the original, the hero is a convicted murderer en route to the death house by way of a merchant ship; the heroine is suffering from a terminal illness. Once more, hero and heroine fall in love, each keeping the facts of his Read More

Wuthering Heights

Actors: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson, Geraldine Fitzgerald

Synopsis: William Wyler's Wuthering Heights is one of the earliest screen adaptations of the classic Emily Brontë novel. A traveler named Lockwood (Miles Mander) is caught in the snow and stays at the estate of Wuthering Heights, where the housekeeper, Ellen Dean (Flora Robson), sits down to tell him the Read More

Over the Moon

Actors: Merle Oberon, Rex Harrison, Ursula Jeans, Robert Douglas, Louis Borell

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a humble country girl lives her life in the ramshackle mansion of her aged uncle. Feeling sorry for her "poor" relation and selflessly keeping him company until he dies, she is later shocked to learn that he has left her an enormous fortune. One might think such a windfall Read More

The Cowboy and the Lady

Actors: Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon, Patsy Kelly, Walter Brennan, Fuzzy Knight

Synopsis: After an eccentric young woman (Merle Oberon) is left on her father's estate to keep her from spoiling his Presidential bid, she attends a rodeo and falls in love with a cowboy (Gary Cooper). They marry soon after, and must confront the furious father. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Divorce of Lady X

Actors: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Binnie Barnes, Ralph Richardson, Morton Selten

Synopsis: Filmed in lavish Technicolor and given Tiffany production values by producer Alexander Korda, the British comedy Divorce of Lady X is at base a trivial little farce, buoyed by the sprightly performances of star Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier. Ms. Oberon plays a costume-party guest who is forced Read More

These Three

Actors: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet, Alma Kruger

Synopsis: Lillian Hellman's 1934 Broadway play The Children's Hour was such a hot potato that film producer Samuel Goldwyn was denied Production Code permission to use the play's original title. The reason was the story's lesbian theme, a factor that also blocked The Children's Hour from winning a Pulitzer Read More

Beloved Enemy

Actors: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Karen Morley, Jerome Cowan, David Niven

Synopsis: This lavishly appointed Sam Goldwyn soap opera is set in Ireland during "the troubles." Irish rebel leader Dennis Reardon (Brian Aherne) falls in love with Lady Helen Drummond (Merle Oberon), the aristocratic daughter of British diplomat Lord Athleigh (Henry Stephenson). Reardon's underground Read More

The Dark Angel

Actors: Fredric March, Merle Oberon, C. Montague Shaw, Charles Tannen, David Torrence, Clare Verdera, Douglas Walton, George Breakston, Colin Campbell, Tom Moore, Louise M. Bates, Roy Darmour, Douglas Gordon, Harold Howard, Albert Russell, Doris Stone, Francis Palmer Tilton, Carl Voss, Herbert Marshall, John Miltern, Vesey O'Davoren, Claud Allister, Jimmy Baxter, Janet Beecher, Jimmy Butler, Robert Carleton, Denis Chaldecott, Fay Chaldecott, Phyllis Coghlan, Cora Sue Collins, Edward Cooper, Henrietta Crosman, Philip Dare, Gunnis Davis, Jack Deery, Vernon P. Downing, Sarah Edwards, Bud Geary, Lawrence Grant, Robert Hale, John Halliday, Sam Harris, Holmes Herbert, Olaf Hytten, Frieda Inescort, Colin Kenny, Claude King, Murdock MacQuarrie

Synopsis: Samuel Goldwyn's The Dark Angel is a sumptuously produced soap opera with a poignant "Enoch Arden" style denouement. Fredric March, Merle Oberon and Herbert Marshall star respectively as Alan Trent, Kitty Vane and Gerald Shannon, friends since childhood. Though Gerald is deeply in love with Kitty Read More

Men of Tomorrow

Synopsis: Originally released in 1932, Men of Tomorrow represented the film debut of Robert Donat. The story follows a young, idealistic Oxford student in the years following his graduation. Now a successful novelist, Allen Shepherd (Maurice Bradell) has married college sweetheart Jane Anderson (Joan Gardner Read More

Folies Bergère

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Ann Sothern, Merle Oberon, Eric Blore, Ferdinand Munier

Synopsis: This French-language version of the 1935 Hollywood musical Folies Bergere retains the original star (Maurice Chevalier) and director (Roy Del Ruth) and Busby Berkeley's big-scale production numbers. It also follows substantially the same plot: A nightclub entertainer (Chevalier), is hired to pose Read More

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Actors: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, O.B. Clarence, Bramwell Fletcher

Synopsis: This film from director Harold Young is the second big-screen adaptation of Baroness Emmuska Orczy's 1905 novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. Leslie Howard stars as Sir Percy Blakeney, a British aristocrat who rescues innocent victims of the French Revolution under the guise of The Scarlet Pimpernel Read More

The Broken Melody

Synopsis: In this interesting drama, an opera singer, falsely convicted of murdering his wife's lover, must escape from Devil's Island. His success inspires him to write an opera. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Private Life of Don Juan

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes, Joan Gardner, Benita Hume

Synopsis: Producer and director (Alexander Korda) followed up The Private Life of Henry VIII (one of the first internationally successful British films) with this historical comedy. After years in exile, the great lover Don Juan (Douglas Fairbanks) returns to Seville, the city of his salad days. However Read More

Thunder in the East

Actors: Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon, John Loder, Betty Stockfeld, Miles Mander

Synopsis: The Battle is the English-language version of the French La Bataille; both versions starred Charles Boyer in one of his oddest screen roles. Adapted from a novel by Claude Farrere, the film casts Boyer as Marquis Yorisaka, a patriot Japanese nobleman in charge of a vast naval fleet. He strikes up Read More

The Private Life of Henry VIII

Actors: Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes, Merle Oberon, Elsa Lanchester, Everley Gregg

Synopsis: Charles Laughton became an international star by chewing both mutton and scenes in his Oscar-winning turn as King Henry VIII. Alexander Korda's British super-production also put the British cinema on the map, which, until this film, received precious little respect in the international film Read More

Strange Evidence

Ebb Tide

Synopsis: Sailor George Barraud and a shopgirl marry while the sailor's first girlfriend is in prison. When released, the girlfriend attempts to get her man back, but ends up saving the wife from suicide when the girlfriend realizes their true love. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Aren't We All?

Actors: Gertrude Lawrence, Hugh Wakefield, Owen Nares, Marie Lohr

Synopsis: The crackerjack director/cinematographer team of Harry Lachman and Rudolph Mate (Dante's Inferno, Our Relations) brought an extra veneer of class to the 1932 Gertrude Lawrence vehicle Aren't We All. She plays a shy and retiring lass who harbors a secret past indiscretion. Her "shameful" secret is Read More

Reserved for Ladies

Actors: Leslie Howard, George Grossmith, Morton Selten, Elizabeth Allan, Benita Hume

Synopsis: Adapted from the Ernest Vajda novel The Head Waiter, Service for Ladies stars Leslie Howard as Max Tracey, premiere waiter of a luxurious London hotel. Falling in love with the aristocratic Sylvia Robertson (Elizabeth Allen), Max poses as a European prince, enlisting the aid of an amiable Read More

Wedding Rehearsal

Actors: George Grossmith, Roland Young, John Loder, Lady Tree, Merle Oberon

Synopsis: Quite popular when first released, Wedding Rehearsal is a bit obscure today, which is a shame when one considers the talented cast and production staff. Roland Young plays a diffident aristocrat who is pressured to marry by his veddy proper family. Imagine their shock when Young falls in love with Read More

Never Trouble Trouble

Synopsis: In this comedy, a struggling artist who wants to die puts out a contract on himself, but then receives a large inheritance and doesn't want to die anymore. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More

Fascination

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Dorothy Bartlam, Carl Harbord, Kay Hammond, Kenneth Kove

Synopsis: The marriage between Larry and Vera Maitland (Carl Harbourd and Dorothy Bartlam) may be over before it begins when Larry falls for glamorous actress Gwenda Farrell (Madeleine Carroll). Rather than storm out of the house in high dudgeon, Vera opts for a more civilized approach. She visits Gwenda in Read More

A Warm Corner

Synopsis: In this comedy, a business magnate goes to Monte Carlo for a vacation. There his pal encourages him to begin a flirtation with a lovely young woman. Later he returns home. There he learns that the girl is secretly married to a friend's nephew. Fortunately, the fellow is saved when the woman claims Read More

Alf's Button

Actors: Alf Goddard, Polly Ward, Humberston Wright

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1920, W. A. Darlington's comedy-fantasy Alf's Button was remade as a talkie ten years later. Tubby Endlin stars as WWI "Tommy" Alf Higgins, who learns to his delight and amazement that a button on his jacket was fashioned from Aladdin's lamp. Rubbing the button for luck, Alf Read More