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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).
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...
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.
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...
Charlotte’s 12-year-old daughter Constance was Oberon’s real mother, and the starlet's real father is unknown to this day. In order to avoid prevent public embarrassment, Charlotte put her own name on the birth certificate.
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.
Jun 3, 2021 · More than a decade earlier, Charlotte herself was raped by an Irish foreman of a tea plantation in Sri Lanka and gave birth to Constance at age 14. Charlotte raised Oberon as her own daughter,...
