{"id":43890,"date":"2015-11-11T02:33:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T02:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43890"},"modified":"2017-03-25T01:24:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T01:24:32","slug":"the-legend-of-merle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43890","title":{"rendered":"The legend of Merle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The legend of Merle<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Age<\/a>
\nDocklands, Victoria, Australia
\n2002-08-21<\/p>\n

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\nMerle Oberon<\/a> (1943)<\/small><\/p>\n

She was one of the most glamorous stars of the 1930s and ’40s. A screen siren with smouldering looks, exotic features and almond-shaped eyes. Merle Oberon<\/a> was described as graceful and hauntingly beautiful.<\/p>\n

On her ascent, in 1939, she captivated the world in the box office Hollywood<\/a> hit, Wuthering Heights<\/em><\/a>, playing Cathy opposite Laurence Olivier <\/a>as Heathcliff<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From the other side of the globe, Tasmanians<\/a> glowed with pride. Oberon, according to a biography that read like a Hollywood film script, had been born in Hobart, the daughter of an upper-class white colonial family. She left Tasmania for India<\/a> after her distinguished father died in a hunting accident, and was raised there by aristocratic godparents.<\/p>\n

If Errol Flynn<\/a> was the island state’s favourite son, Merle Oberon was its treasured daughter. In 1978, the Hobart Town Hall<\/a> hosted a function attended by well-known local identities to welcome her back. Decades later, Tasmanians proudly recount stories and anecdotes about the hometown girl who blazed her way to Hollywood. Only Oberon wasn’t born in Tasmania. She was Anglo-Indian<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She was one of the most glamorous stars of the 1930s and ’40s. A screen siren with smouldering looks, exotic features and almond-shaped eyes. Merle Oberon was described as graceful and hauntingly beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16,1245,8,4405,6462,25],"tags":[8567,986,21847,1351,21846,8358,21845],"class_list":["post-43890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-oceania","category-passing-2","category-women","tag-anglo-indians","tag-australia","tag-estelle-merle-thompson","tag-india","tag-merle-oberon","tag-tasmania","tag-the-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52878,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43890\/revisions\/52878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}