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Merle Oberon (born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson; 19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was a British actress [1] who began her film career in British films as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933).
Mar 8, 2023 · Oberon was, in fact, the child of her then 12-year-old half-sister, Constance. Oberon seemed to have some sense of the pitfalls of her blurry identity from a young age, growing up...
Feb 21, 2017 · So Estelle Thompson from Bombay became Merle Oberon, a white upper class Hobart girl who moves to India from Tasmania after her distinguished father dies in a hunting accident. Oberon was...
Apr 15, 2022 · Selby's daughter Constance had Oberon as a teenager but the two were reportedly raised together as sisters for some years. Oberon's first big break came from Sir Alexander Korda - a filmmaker...
Jul 28, 2017 · It turns out that Selby was really Oberon’s grandmother; the actress’s birth mother was actually Selby’s daughter Constance, who was only 12 years old when she had Oberon. Arthur Thompson had...
Feb 5, 2023 · The reality was that she was actually born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1911 and her father, Arthur Thompson, was a railway engineer who had a sexual relationship with her then 12-year-old mother, Constance Selby, who was the daughter of Thompson’s wife Charlotte.
Feb 28, 2023 · Her birth mother was actually Constance, who was earlier thought to be her older sister and was only 12 at the time of Oberon's conception.
