Cast: Merle Oberon

Direction William Wyler

Cast Merle Oberon · Laurence Olivier · David Niven · Flora Robson

Synopsis The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Miriam Hopkins · Merle Oberon · Joel McCrea · Catherine Doucet

Synopsis Karen and Martha, college roommates, graduate and face the future with no place and no money. Karen, however, has inherited a farmhouse from her grandmother, and gets the idea that she and Martha can turn it into a school for...

Direction Alexander Korda

Cast Charles Laughton · Binnie Barnes · Robert Donat · Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis This movie tells the story of King Henry VIII and the last five of his six wives. Set almost entirely within the royal castle, it begins just before the death of his second wife (Anne Boleyn) and ends just after...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Merle Oberon · Melvyn Douglas · Burgess Meredith · Alan Mowbray

Synopsis Larry Baker (Melvyn Douglas) loves his job and married life, not realizing that his wife, Jill (Merle Oberon), is bored to tears and wishes that he would pay more attention to her. While trying to make Larry react, an eccentric...

Direction Bill Duncalf

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Josef von Sternberg · Charles Laughton · Robert Graves

Synopsis This British television documentary, hosted by Dirk Bogarde, is about the aborted 1937 film I Claudius. The film, directed by Josef Von Sternberg and produced by Alexander Korda with an all-star cast, was shut down after only a few weeks...

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Merle Oberon · Robert Ryan · Charles Korvin · Paul Lukas

Synopsis An express train from Paris to occupied postwar Germany holds French, American, German, British and Russian passengers, at least some of whom are more than they seem. A political assassination en route threatens an important conference, and beautiful Frenchwoman Lucienne...

Direction Harold Young

Cast Leslie Howard · Joan Gardner · Merle Oberon · Raymond Massey

Synopsis From the famous novel by Baroness Orczy, this is the fictionalized story of Sir Percy Blakeney, the saviour of the French aristocracy during the bloody revolution of the 18th century. Known as a dandy British aristocrat to his friends by...

Direction Charles Vidor

Cast Paul Muni · Merle Oberon · Cornel Wilde · Stephen Bekassy

Synopsis Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. At a recital in a duke's home Chopin insults the new Russian-installed governor, and must flee the country. The professor takes him to...

Direction John Brahm

Cast Merle Oberon · George Sanders · Laird Cregar · Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis Mrs. Bonting manages to keep up appearances, but little more than that, these days. Though Mr. Bonting is unhappy over the idea of letting rooms, it seems an answer to a prayer when a peculiar young man named Mr. Slade...

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Dana Andrews · Merle Oberon · Ethel Barrymore · Hoagy Carmichael

Synopsis Cathy Mallory, beautiful socialite who prefers classical music, is taken by friends to a back-alley dance club. There, she meets blind pianist Dan Evans, who plays in Chick Morgan's swing band but seems to be a composer of great promise....

Direction André De Toth

Cast Merle Oberon · Franchot Tone · Thomas Mitchell · Fay Bainter

Synopsis Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover emotionally. Unfortunately she encounters various scam artists led by Mr. Sydney. Dr. George Grover helps Leslie to defeat Sydney.

Direction Tim Whelan

Cast Laurence Olivier · Merle Oberon · Binnie Barnes · Ralph Richardson

Synopsis Fogbound in a hotel, Leslie Steele tricks handsome, cynical divorce lawyer Everard Logan into sharing his suite. She lets him think she's married; next day Lord Mere, whose thrice- divorced wife spent the night with a man in the same...

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Gary Cooper · Merle Oberon · Patsy Kelly · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Poor Mary Smith can't go night-clubbing or have any other fun because any hint of scandal could damage her father's political career. She decides to rebel and convinces her two maids to let her go along with them on a...

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Marlon Brando · Jean Simmons · Merle Oberon · Michael Rennie

Synopsis In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais,...

Direction Sidney Franklin

Cast Fredric March · Merle Oberon · Herbert Marshall · Janet Beecher

Synopsis Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives...

Direction Alexander Korda

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Merle Oberon · Bruce Winston · Gina Malo

Synopsis Douglas Fairbanks Sr. makes his big-screen swan song with Korda’s deliciously satiric deflation of the Don Juan myth. After having faked his own death and escaped Seville, the aging lothario returns, only to find that he has been promptly forgotten;...

Direction Stanley Donen

Cast José Ferrer · Merle Oberon · Helen Traubel · Doe Avedon

Synopsis Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Merle Oberon · Edna May Oliver · Alan Marshal · Joseph Cotten

Synopsis Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy old woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for...

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Rod Taylor · Catherine Spaak · Karl Malden · Melvyn Douglas

Synopsis Based on the best-selling novel by Arthur Hailey ("Airport"), the story of the clock-like movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager (Rod Taylor), wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen...

Direction Russell Rouse

Cast Stephen Boyd · Elke Sommer · Milton Berle · Eleanor Parker

Synopsis Frankie Fane has clawed his way to the top of the Hollywood heap. Now, as he's preparing to win his Oscar, his friend Hymie Kelly reminisces over their life together, and Frankie's ruthless struggle to the top and the people...