Merle Oberon
Рождение : 1911-02-19, Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India [now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India]
Смерть : 1979-11-23
История
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Merle Oberon (18 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was an Indian-born British actress.
She began her film career in British films, and a prominent role, as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), brought her attention. Leading roles in such films as The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) advanced her career, and she travelled to the United States to make films for Samuel Goldwyn. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Dark Angel (1935).
A traffic collision in 1937 caused facial injuries that could have ended her career, but she soon followed this with her most renowned role, as Cathy in Wuthering Heights (1939). Her career continued until the end of the 1940s when it declined and her acting performances over the following years were relatively few.
Self
The director explores the birth origins of actress Merle Oberon, traveling to Tasmania and India in search of the truth, but her quest ultimately results in probably more questions than it answers.
Serena Moore
An emotionally fragile older woman (Merle Oberon) embarks on an ill-fated love affair with a handsome young artist (Robert Wolders) while traveling through Mexico's Yucatan peninsula...
Herself
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.
The Duchess Caroline
В отеле «Святой Георгий» Нового Орлеана пересеклись судьбы разных людей. Здесь и крупный бизнесмен с молодой и красивой подругой, чета герцогов, гостиничный вор, частный детектив, хозяин отеля. Но главный герой, менеджер отеля — Питер Макдермотт. У каждого из персонажей — своя история, которая входит в общий водоворот событий. Судьба самого отеля тоже под вопросом. События нарастают, достигают кульминации и развязки…
Merle Oberon
An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.
Katherine Beckmann
American engineer Steve Corey comes to Mexico to work at one of the mining projects owned by Katherine Beckman and her half-brother Paul. He meets Katherine, and the man he is replacing, Bill Maxton, tells him that Katherine is his for the asking..."all you have to do is touch her---she goes off like fireworks. There were plenty of guys before me, and there'll be plenty after me." Steve finds Katherine as advertised but he falls in love with her. Once he sees that the romance is for real, brother Paul is more than a little displeased at this turn of events and brings back one of Katherine's earlier flames, Gus Cole, to tempt Katherine away from Steve.
Jessica Warren
Дэйв Барретт оказывается замешан в двух убийствах, которые не совершал. Теперь за ним охотятся полиция и гангстеры.
Dorothy Donnelly
Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.
Empress Josephine
Один неизвестный офицер по имени Наполеон, прекрасная простушка по имени Дезире, ставшая в конце концов Королевой, богатая и могущественная Жозефина, будущая императрица — вот далеко не полный перечень действующих лиц. Дезире на протяжении всего фильма следит за триумфальным шествием великого Наполеона и борется то за свое чувство, то усмиряет свою страсть к нему, которою так никогда и не воплотить в реальности…
Margaret Faulson
Following meetings between Spain and the United States a delegation of a mining company arrives to Granada in search of uranium. The company contacted with the landowners, who agree to sell less of them. Such owner refuses because his ground a treasure supposedly hidden Muslim and refuses to sell them to Margaret, representative of the company. When he refused, Margaret convinces the owner to locate the treasure on your own and sell it in case you find it ... but love gets in his plans.
Linda Venning
A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.
Elizabeth Rockwell
A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights.
Elizabeth Rockwell
A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights.
Lucienne
Robert Ryan leads a group of Allied agents fighting an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Cathy Mallory
A socialite pretends to be poor and blind in her plan to help a blinded pianist.
Ruby
After marrying an archaeologist, a Victorian-era woman with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man.
Delarai
Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.
Karin Touzac
At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him...and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new technique, Florence is revealed in a flashback as Michel's abandoned wife Karin, whom their daughter Susette thinks is dead. Can Susette cope if they now re-unite?
George Sand
Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
Leslie Calvin
Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover emotionally. Unfortunately, she encounters various scam artists led by Mr. Sydney who intend to kill her and steal the family assets. Dr. George Grover helps Leslie to defeat Sydney.
Kitty Langley
В ту же самую ночь, когда совершено четвертое убийство женщины, приписываемое Джеку-потрошителю в квартале Уайтчепел в Лондоне, неизвестный хочет снять комнату, которую сдаёт старая чета Бартонов. Он говорит, что зовут его Слейд и добавляет, что его работа связана с анатомией и носит нерегулярный характер. Дом Бартонов кажется Слейду очаровательным из-за спокойной обстановки: «Это местечко как убежище».
Nicole Larsen
Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.
Merle Oberon
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance
Marjorie Ismay
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Lydia MacMillan
Лидия МакМиллан, красивая, независимая, пожилая женщина, которая никогда не была замужем, через сорок лет встречается со своими тремя поклонниками, с которыми когда-то её связывали романтические отношения. В воспоминаниях они возвращаются в своё прошлое, которое казалось прекрасным. Все эти годы мужчины задавали себе вопрос: почему она не выбрала никого из них. А разгадка была в четвёртом, единственном, кого она любила по-настоящему....
Sue Mayberry
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.
Jill Baker
Молодая женщина, миссис Джил Бейкер, страдающая от приступов внезапной икоты, вынуждена обратиться к психоаналитику, который наводит ее на мысль, что основная причина - не слишком удачный брак. В ожидании очередного сеанса у врача она знакомится в приемной с пианистом, который кажется ей намного более увлекательной и творческой личностью, чем скучный страховой агент муж...
Self
Charles Boyer and Merle Oberon talk about alien registration in a post office in the USA.
Joan Ames
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
Herself
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940.
Mrs. Richardson
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.
Jane Benson
Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds. He makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the money and what it can buy, and Jane sets off alone on a spree pursued by two ardent suitors. Jarvis finds he has gained notoriety for turning down such a catch and his plans for ernest research are soon compromised.
Catherine 'Cathy' Earnshaw Linton
Главный герой Хитклиф влюблен в Кэти, но не может женится на ней из-за разницы в социальном положении. Всю жизнь он будет помнить об этом оскорблении, и мстить всем, кто причастен к его несчастью.
Mary Smith
Мэри Смит не может посещать ночные заведения или расслабляться любым другим подобным образом, потому что любой намёк скандала может повредить политической карьере её отца. Однажды ей это надоедает и она с двумя другими девушками отправляется на свидание с участниками родео. Своему новому кавалеру — Стречу — Мэри говорит, что она горничная и что она сбежала из дома, так как её избивает отец. Возлюбленные решают убежать. Теперь Мэри стоит перед выбором: продолжать ей авантюру со Стречем или вернуться домой.
Self
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to suggest a garden that might be seen in a French palace. This includes the placement of trees and other foliage, as well as large statues along the route. Grandstands are set up so fans can see their favorite stars as they arrive for the premiere. Finally, the proverbial "galaxy of stars" arrives in their limousines. Fanny Brice and Pete Smith make remarks at the microphone set up on the carpet outside the theatre.
Leslie Steele / Lady Claire Mere
The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.
Helen Drummond
In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.
Self
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many stars.
Karen Wright
Избалованная Мэри Тилфорд, забавы ради, издевается над своими учительницами Мартой и Кэрен, распространяя ложь об одно и шантажируя другую. Но правда, как известно, рано или поздно становится явью, а в данном случае грозит нелицеприятными последствиями для всех участников...
Kitty Vane
История о том, что сильнее любящего сердца может быть только три любящих сердца.
Baroness Genevieve Cassini
Музыкальная комедия по пьесе Рудольфа Лотара и Ганса Адлера. На каждом своем выступлении певец Эжен Шарлье с успехом пародирует на сцене известного банкира барона Кассини. Удивительное внешнее сходство и тонкое исполнение позволяют артисту сыграть роль своего двойника вне стен мюзик-холла.
Lady Blakeney
Разгар революционного террора во Франции. Аристократы, осуждённые к казни на гильотине, томятся в тюрьме Ла-Форс. Правительство Робеспьера обеспокоено тем, что различными хитроумными способами их похищает из темницы и вывозит из Франции неуловимый Алый Первоцвет. Ходят слухи, что за его бесчисленными масками скрывается некий английский лорд. Гражданин Шовелен, представляющий интересы революционной Франции в Лондоне, получает от Робеспьера задание любой ценой выследить загадочного врага республики. Прибегнув к шантажу, он пытается выведать его истинное имя у светской львицы, леди Блейкни, чей муж — недалёкий придворный франт и хлыщ из окружения принца-регента.
Germaine Brissard
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
Marquise Yorisaka
The Battle is a 1934 Franco-British co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and Viktor Tourjansky, and starring Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon and John Loder. It was adapted from a novel by Claude Farrère. In 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer gets his wife to seduce a British atachee in order to gain secrets from him. Things begin to go wrong when she instead falls in love with him.
Antonita, a Dancer of Passionate Temperament
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
Anne Boleyn
Этот фильм рассказывает историю жизни одного из самых известных королей Англии Генриха VIII, а больше всего он стал известен необычным для христианина числом браков, некоторые из них заканчивались казнью бывшей супруги. Помимо своих жен Генрих VIII не гнушался и уничтожением своих политических противников, среди которых был и великий гуманист Томас Мор, а также церковной реформой, приведшей к появлению англиканской церкви. Генрих VIII был женат шесть раз. Судьба его супруг заучивается английскими школьниками при помощи мнемонической фразы "развелся - казнил - умерла - развелся - казнил - пережила". От первых трех браков у него было 10 детей, из которых выжило только трое - Мария от первого брака, Елизавета от второго и Эдуард от третьего. Все они впоследствии царствовали. Последние три брака Генрика были бездетными. Фильм со вкусом озвучен на два голоса.
Bit Part
A useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian.
Miss Hutchinson
The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off .
Ysobel d'Aunay
In the years after his graduation Allen Shepherd has become a successful novelist and has married Jane Anderson. A firm proponent of traditional sex roles, Shepherd leaves Jane when she accepts a teaching post at Oxford. He later changes his views, and the couple is reunited.
Bit Part
Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt his honeymoon with his wife Margot in the south of France and return to London to get his father to sign an important contract. While Margot, an actress, goes to a small resort where she will not be recognized, Kitty Lake, one of the young women Lord Grenham pursues, flirts with Willie. Two weeks pass and when Willie tells Margot on the telephone that he must stay in town, she threatens to engage in a violent flirtation with the next attractive man she sees. Karl von der Heide, from Vienna, who is waiting to use the telephone, overhears her and begins a flirtation. She identifies herself to him as Mrs. Margaret Spaulding, and they pursue the beginnings of a romance until Margot suddenly returns home.
(uncredited)
A sailor falls in love with a woman he meets at the dockside, but is deeply conflicted because his former lover is in prison.
Undetermined Minor Role
Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince to win her love. In this venture, he is aided by Mr. Westlake, a Ruritanian monarch who owes him a favour. When Sylvia discovers Max's deception, she is appalled, but the situation is resolved when her father tells her that he was once a hotel dishwasher.
Flower Seller
Madeleine Carroll stars as a vampish actress who comes between a happily married couple, in this light-hearted melodrama from Miles Mander.
Minor Role
A comedy film directed by Lupino Lane.
Bit Part
This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!
Bit Part
A Lord's son aids a seaman's mission but returns to save his sick father's shipyard from strikers.
