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Merle Oberon: British India
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Merle Oberon (1911–1979) was born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. In 1932 she signed a five-year contract with Alexander Korda's company London Films, and made her breakthrough one year later in the role of Anne Boleyn in
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Oberon was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), British India. Her mother, Charlotte, was an Anglo-Sinhalese nurse; her father, Arthur, was a British railway engineer. Merle was her mother's second child. Charlotte had abandoned her first daughter, Constance, and refused to take care of another child born out of wedlock. She insisted that Arthur marry her, although there is no evidence that he actually did.
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In a biography that read like a film script they said that after her father's death Merle joined her aristocratic godparents in India. Yet rumour was that the exotic almond-eyed actress concealed her true past. It was said she was actually "oriental," perhaps Anglo-Indian, and born in Calcutta. In Tasmania, many remain convinced she was their island's most famous daughter, born not to wealthy parents but to a Chinese hotel worker and her married employer.
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