Merle Oberon

**Merle Oberon**, asıl adı **Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson** (19 Şubat 1911 - 23 Kasım 1979), film oyuncusudur.

## Hayatının ilk yılları
Oberon; Bombay, Hindistan'da doğdu (şimdiki Mumbai). Annesi Charlotte, Sri Lankalı bir İngiliz hemşireydi. Babası Arthur, İngiliz demiryolu mühendisiydi. Merle annesinin ikinci çocuğuydu. Charlotte, ilk kızı, Constance'ı terk etmiş ve evlilik dışı bir çocuğa daha bakmayı reddetmişti. Arthur'u onunla evlenmesi için zorlasa da evlendiklerine dair herhangi bir kayıt bulunmamaktadır.

## Filmografi

### Sinema ve televizyon filmleri

**[[The Three Passions]]* (1928)
**[[A Warm Corner]]* (1930)
**[[Alf's Button (1930 film)|Alf's Button]]* (1930)
**[[Never Trouble Trouble]]* (1931)
**[[The W Plan]]* (1931)
**[[Fascination (1931 film)|Fascination]]* (1931)
**[[For the Love of Mike (1932 film)|For the Love of Mike]]* (1932)
**[[Reserved for Ladies]]* (1932)
**[[Ebb Tide (1932 film)|Ebb Tide]]* (1932)
**[[Aren't We All? (film)|Aren't We All?]]* (1932)
**[[Wedding Rehearsal]]* (1932)
**[[Men of Tomorrow (1932 film)|Men of Tomorrow]]* (1932)
**[[Strange Evidence]]* (1933)
**[[The Private Life of Henry VIII]]* (1933)
**[[The Battle (1934 film)|The Battle]]* (1934)
**[[The Private Life of Don Juan]]* (1934)
**[[The Broken Melody (1934 film)|The Broken Melody]]* (1934)
**[[The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934 film)|The Scarlet Pimpernel]]* (1934)
**[[Folies Bergère de Paris]]* (1935)
**[[The Dark Angel (1935 film)|The Dark Angel]]* (1935)
**[[These Three]]* (1936)
**[[Beloved Enemy]]* (1936)
**[[I, Claudius (film)|I, Claudius]]* (1937) (unfinished)
**[[The Divorce of Lady X]]* (1938)
**[[The Cowboy and the Lady (1938 film)|The Cowboy and the Lady]]* (1938)
**[[Wuthering Heights (1939 film)|Wuthering Heights]]* (1939)
**[[Over the Moon (film)|Over the Moon]]* (1939)
**[[The Lion Has Wings]]* (1939)
**[['Til We Meet Again]]* (1940)
**[[That Uncertain Feeling (film)|That Uncertain Feeling]]* (1941)
**[[Affectionately Yours]]* (1941)
**[[Lydia (film)|Lydia]]* (1941)
**[[Forever and a Day (1943 film)|Forever and a Day]]* (1943)
**[[Stage Door Canteen (film)|Stage Door Canteen]]* (1943)
**[[First Comes Courage]]* (1943)
**[[The Lodger (1944 film)|The Lodger]]* (1944)
**[[Dark Waters (1944 film)|Dark Waters]]* (1944)
**[[A Song to Remember]]* (1945)
**[[This Love of Ours]]* (1945)
**[[Night in Paradise]]* (1946)
**[[Temptation (1946 film)|Temptation]]* (1946)
**[[Night Song (film)|Night Song]]* (1948)
**[[Berlin Express]]* (1948)
**[[The Lady from Boston]]* (1951) 
**[[Dans la vie tout s'arrange]]* (1952), a French version of *The Lady from Boston*
**[[24 Hours of a Woman's Life]]* (1952)
**[[All Is Possible in Granada]]* (1954)
**[[Désirée (film)|Désirée]]* (1954)
**[[Deep in My Heart (1954 film)|Deep in My Heart]]* (1954)
* *[[The Price of Fear (1956 film)|The Price of Fear]]* (1956)
**[[Of Love and Desire]]* (1963)
**[[The Oscar (film)|The Oscar]]* (1966)
**[[Hotel (1967 film)|Hotel]]* (1967)
**[[Interval (1973 film)|Interval]]* (1973)

### Kısa filmler
* "Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 4" (1936)
* "Hollywood Goes to Town" (1938)
* "Assignment: Foreign Legion" (1956/7 televizyon episodes)

## Radyo çalışmaları

## Kaynakça
; Özel

; Genel

* Bowden, Tim. *The Devil in Tim: Penelope's Travels in Tasmania*. London: Allen & Unwin, 2008. . 
* Casey, Bob. *Merle Oberon: Face of Mystery*. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia: Masterpiece@IXL, 2008. .
* Higham, Charles and Roy Moseley. *Princess Merle: The Romantic Life of Merle Oberon*. New York: Coward-McCann Inc., 1983. .
* Korda, Michael. *Another Life: A Memoir of Other People*. New York: Random House, 1999. .
* Munn, Michael. *David Niven: The Man Behind the Balloon*. London: JR Books, 2010. .
* Pybus, Cassandra. *Till Apples Grow on an Orange Tree*. St Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1998. .

## Dış bağlantılar

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* Classic Movie Favorites website
* Photographs of Merle Oberon and bibliography
*  – Note 1917 birthyear on headstone
* Merle Oberon in pose for ''The Dark Angel'' in **[[Vanity Fair (American magazine 1913–1936)|Vanity Fair]]** portrait by Cecil Beaton
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* ''The Trouble With Merle'' (Australian documentary) – investigation of her origins