Remembering Merle Oberon on her birthday 🎂
📷 Cecil Beaton, 1934
"It was the strength of Oberon’s work before the camera, combined with the singularity of her beauty, that first captured the film establishment’s attention - not her parentage, not her upbringing."
- Mayukh Sen
A candid shot of Merle Oberon by William Grimes, 1940
Merle Oberon & Robert Ryan in Jacques Tourneur's Berlin Express
📷 Art Say, 1948
Merle Oberon & Warren Stevens in The Price of Fear
📷 Bill Walling, 1956
Merle Oberon played George Sand in Charles Vidor's A Song to Remember. Chopin was played by Cornel Wilde
📷 Ned Scott, 1945
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