Merle Oberon Net Worth

All pictures Wuthering Heights (1939)as Cathy Berlin Express (1948)as Lucienne That Uncertain Feeling (1941)as Jill Baker The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)as Lady Blakeney



Estelle Merle Thompson net worth is
$14 Million

Estelle Merle Thompson Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family

Merle Oberon (19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was an Anglo-Indian actress. She began her film career in British films as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). After her success in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), she travelled to the United States to make films for Samuel Goldwyn. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Dark Angel (1935). A traffic collision in 1937 caused facial injuries that could have ended her career, but she soon followed this with her most renowned performance in Wuthering Heights (1939).Throughout her adult life, in order to conceal her Indian heritage she maintained the fiction that she was born in Tasmania, Australia; she concocted a story that all her school records had been destroyed in a fire, which meant it could be neither proven nor disproven. She maintained these fictions throughout her professional life. The year before she died she finally admitted this story was not true, and records located since her death have confirmed her true origin. 
Full NameEstelle Merle Thompson
Net Worth$14 Million
Date Of BirthFebruary 19, 1911
Died1979-11-23
Place Of BirthIndia
Height5' 2" (1.57 m)
OccupationActress
ProfessionActress, Soundtrack, Writer
SpouseAlexander Korda
ChildrenBruno Pagliai Jr., Francesca Pagliai
NicknamesMerle Oberon, Oberon, Merle
Star SignPisces
#Quote
1[on Ernst Lubitsch in That Uncertain Feeling (1941)] That was probably the happiest picture I ever made because Lubitsch was such a funny man, such a darling man. He played the piano between every take, and there would be laughs. Then I always ask him to do the scene for me before I did it only to have a laugh.
2Even when I was single, I owned homes and gardens. I buy beauty when other women buy jewels. Land is security to me. I need gardens that are mine to walk on.
3Without security, it is difficult for a woman to look or feel beautiful.
#Fact
1To date (2016), Oberon is the only Asian actress to be nominated as Best Actress.
2Was considered for the role of Bithiah in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956).
3She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6274 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
4Merle Oberon passed away on November 23, 1979, three months away from what would have been her 69th birthday on February 19, 1980.
5Had appeared with Binnie Barnes in four films: The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933), The Private Life of Don Juan (1934), The Divorce of Lady X (1938) and 'Til We Meet Again (1940).
6Stunned by Merle Oberon's radiant beauty in The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933), director William Wyler recommended to cousin Carl Laemmle to sign her. Months later, Wyler discovered that Universal had taken his advice but mistakenly signed Binnie Barnes.
7Although she made three films opposite Charles Korvin, she said in an interview in the February 1982 issue of "Films in Review" that he was not a good actor.
8Most early biographies of Merle Oberon credited "Service for Ladies" as her first Korda film, but she was not in it or "Never Trouble Trouble", another incorrect attribute.
9According to an interview with Oberon in the February 1982 edition of "Films in Review", Samuel Goldwyn owed her over a million dollars to her for a series of pictures. He allegedly cried to her that he did not have the money. According to her, she told him to forget about it even though she still owed agent's fees to Myrom Selznick. Some years later, Oberon asked Mrs. Goldwyn if she could buy a print of Wuthering Heights (1939) to complete her collection of films for her children but was refused.
10Was considered for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939), which went to Vivien Leigh.
11The miniseries Queenie (1987) starring Mia Sara is based on a book by Merle's nephew, loosely based on her life.
12In 1949, 12 years after her mother's death, she commissioned a painting of her mother from an old photograph, instructing the painter to lighten her mother's complexion in the painting to hide the fact that she was part-Indian.
13Her will left most of her money to be divided between her children. She left $1 million to the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital. Her husband, Robert Wolders, got nothing, at his own request.
14The two children she had during her marriage to Bruno Pagliai, Francesca Pagliai and Bruno Pagliai Jr., were adopted.
15Early publicity stated that she was born in Tasmania, Australia, rather than India. At that time, a Tasmanian background was considered "classier" than her true mixed race origins.
16Had extremely sensitive skin. She suffered from cosmetic poisoning twice, the second of which left permanent scarring.
17Her father hailed from Britain and her mother from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
18To hide her half-Indian parentage, she would tell friends and acquaintances that the older woman who lived in her house was her maid; the woman was actually her mother.
19Lost the role of Domini Enfilden in The Garden of Allah (1936) to Marlene Dietrich.
20Because of facial scars the actress sustained in a London car crash in 1937, her future husband, cinematographer Lucien Ballard, designed a compact spotlight that he coined the "Obie" (Oberon's nickname). Mounted on the side of the camera, the device lights the subject head on, thus reducing the incidence of unflattering facial lines and shadows.
21Following her death, she was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, in the Garden of Remembrance.
22Was known as "Queenie Thompson" up until 1933 when future husband Alexander Korda changed her name for her role in The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933).

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Actress

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Interval1973Serena Moore
Hotel1967The Duchess Caroline
Of Love and Desire1963Katherine Beckmann
General Electric Theater1957TV SeriesMata Hari
Assignment Foreign Legion1956-1957TV SeriesHost - War Correspondent / Anna / Carla / ...
The Price of Fear1956Jessica Warren
The Loretta Young Show1955TV SeriesGuest Hostess / Lucille
The 20th Century-Fox Hour1955TV SeriesJane Marryot
Four Star Playhouse1953-1955TV SeriesCarol / Sara Belmont / Margot Sterling / ...
The Ford Television Theatre1953-1955TV SeriesSara Belmont / Allison Brent
Deep in My Heart1954Dorothy Donnelly
Désirée1954Empress Josephine
The Best of Broadway1954TV SeriesMaggie Cutler
Todo es posible en Granada1954Margaret Faulson
Affair in Monte Carlo1952Linda Venning
Dans la vie tout s'arrange1952Elizabeth Rockwell
Pardon My French1951Elizabeth Rockwell
Berlin Express1948Lucienne
Night Song1947Cathy
Temptation1946Ruby
Night in Paradise1946Delarai
This Love of Ours1945Karin Touzac
A Song to Remember1945George Sand
Dark Waters1944Leslie Calvin
The Lodger1944Kitty Langley
First Comes Courage1943Nicole Larsen
Stage Door Canteen1943Merle Oberon
Forever and a Day1943Marjorie Ismay
Lydia1941Lydia MacMillan
Affectionately Yours1941Sue Mayberry
That Uncertain Feeling1941Jill Baker
'Til We Meet Again1940Joan Ames
The Lion Has Wings1939Mrs. Richardson
Wuthering Heights1939Cathy
Over the Moon1939Jane Benson
The Cowboy and the Lady1938Mary Smith
The Divorce of Lady X1938Leslie
I, Claudius1937Messalina
Beloved Enemy1936Helen Drummond
These Three1936Karen Wright
The Dark Angel1935Kitty Vane
Folies Bergère de Paris1935Baroness Genevieve Cassini
The Scarlet Pimpernel1934Lady Blakeney
The Private Life of Don Juan1934Antonita, a Dancer of Passionate Temperament
Vagabond Violinist1934Germaine Brissard
Thunder in the East1934Marquise Yorisaka
The Private Life of Henry VIII.1933Anne Boleyn The Second Wife
Strange Evidence1933Bit Part (uncredited)
For the Love of Mike1932Bit Part (uncredited)
Men of Tomorrow1932Ysobel d'Aunay
Wedding Rehearsal1932Miss Hutchinson
Aren't We All?1932Bit Part (uncredited)
Ebb Tide1932Girl (uncredited)
Reserved for Ladies1932Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
Fascination1931Flower Seller (uncredited)
Never Trouble Trouble1931Bit Part (uncredited)
A Warm Corner1930Bit Part (uncredited)
Alf's Button1930Bit Part (uncredited)
The W Plan1930Woman at Cafe Table (uncredited)
The Three Passions1928Bit Part (uncredited)

Soundtrack

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Night Song1947performer: "LOCH LOMOND" - uncredited
The Lodger1944performer: "Tink-A-Tin!" 1891, "The Parisian Trot" - uncredited
The Cowboy and the Lady1938performer: "Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride" - uncredited
Folies Bergère de Paris1935performer: "I Was Lucky" 1935

Writer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Round the Film Studios1937TV Series narrative script - 1 episode

Producer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Interval1973producer

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Hollywood's Diamond Jubilee1978TV SpecialHerself - Interview
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to William Wyler1976TV Special documentaryHerself
ABC Late Night1974TV SeriesHerself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1963-1973TV SeriesHerself / Herself - Guest
The 45th Annual Academy Awards1973TV SpecialHerself - Presenter: Special Achievement Award for Visual Effects
The 43rd Annual Academy Awards1971TV SpecialHerself - Presenter: Best Costume Design
A Birthday Gala Tribute Noel Coward1970TV MovieHerself - Performer
The David Frost Show1970TV SeriesHerself
A Bob Hope Comedy Special1966TV SpecialHerself
The Bob Hope Show1966TV SeriesHerself
The Oscar1966Herself
The Epic That Never Was1965TV Movie documentaryHerself / Messalina
The 37th Annual Academy Awards1965TV SpecialHerself - Presenter: Short Subjects Awards
The Other World of Winston Churchill1964TV Movie documentaryHerself - Acquaintance
Here's Hollywood1962TV SeriesHerself
The DuPont Show of the Week1961TV SeriesHerself
Assignment Foreign Legion1956TV SeriesHerself - Hostess
Climax!1956TV SeriesHerself
The Colgate Comedy Hour1955TV SeriesHerself
The 27th Annual Academy Awards1955TV SpecialHerself - Presenter: Honorary Awards - Juvenile Performances
What's My Line?1954TV SeriesHerself - Mystery Guest
The 26th Annual Academy Awards1954TV SpecialHerself - Presenter: Best Special Effects
Schlitz Playhouse1953TV SeriesHerself - Hostess / Marian Thorne
The Ed Sullivan Show1952TV SeriesHerself
Hollywood Goes to Town1938Short documentaryHerself
Round the Film Studios1937TV SeriesHerself - Actress
Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 41936Documentary shortHerself

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Won Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1960Star on the Walk of FameWalk of FameMotion PictureOn 8 February 1960. At 6274 Hollywood Blvd.

Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1936OscarAcademy Awards, USABest Actress in a Leading RoleThe Dark Angel (1935)

Known for movies

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