As a young child we dropped for Merle in every night in Paradise — an easy method cheezy confection for which she is combined with Turhan Bey. The looked at Merle crossing paths with Maria Montez when you look at the Universal commisary is just too delicious. David, I recall Powell stating that and in addition thought it had been insanely odd. I have the impression that a lot of Hollywood individuals, whatever types of casual slurs they might utter, simply sort of shrugged it off–when these weren’t resting with both sexes like rabbits in temperature, this is certainly. (that is not a critique, brain you, i believe the part that is rabbits-in-heat certainly one of Hollywood’s great charms. ) I’ve heard of Turhan Bey extravaganza and seeing Oberon in costume because of it just allows you to genuinely believe that individuals were consciously ignoring the most obvious. It absolutely was all about deniability, i assume. P.S. Warmest congrats from the Red Shoes gig!! Which will be a pleasure to read. To commemorate the bicentenary of Chopin’s delivery this I’m hoping to track down and re-watch A Song to Remember, with Cornel Wilde as Chopin and Queenie herself as George Sand, always trying to steal Chopin away to Majorca year. I remember it being a certainly terrible film, but i am not exactly the snob I became once I saw it (or maybe a new kind of snob). It does have a minumum of one priceless scene, though: while Chopin, newly arrived in Paris from Poland, will be told he is too old to be a kid prodigy ( that he undoubtedly is), he hears their music being played when you look at the space across the street. Whom should really be playing it however the planet’s pianist that is greatest, Franz Liszt? Chopin joins within the performance, so when the 2 men shake fingers, they’re going on playing the songs, one hand each. Absurd. Marvellous. My fave rabbit-in-heat has become Burt Lancaster. David, my favorite RIH is Oliver Reed. He had been therefore unapologetically sleazy it becomes actually endearing. Estienne, we saw the Chopin movie many years and many years ago, and I also do not remember that scene. I really do keep in mind Paul Muni planning to see Oberon-as-Sand whenever Chopin is dying. She actually is posing for a painter (wait she isn’t about to go running off to some deathbed for it) and icily tells Muni. I will nevertheless remember her snapping, “Continue, Mr. Delacroix! ” But that is about all I am able to dredge up from memory. We bet it appears to be great, however. Anybody seen Queenie in This Love of Ours, dir. William Dieterle? Could be worthwhile, with him in the helm. Showing on which took place with Oberon, things have not changed that much. The born that is hawaiian Q had to visit Hong Kong to be a film celebrity. She actually is just gotten a few supporting functions in big Hollywood movies, although a revival associated with the television show Nikita might alert the public from what us Hong Kong movie watchers have actually understood for years. Nor may be the necessitate racially casting that is correct for this part for the hemisphere, as there have been complaints regarding Ms. Quigley’s starring within the period epic Three Kingdoms. Ah, but Song to consider has its own priceless scenes (if he goes on this concert trip it will probably literally and also destroy him! ” “Discontinue that alleged polonaise nonsense! Though i really hope my memory is not playing tricks): “” Ida Lupino as Cathy, though We hear Yojimboen clucking skeptically 3,000 kilometers away. In reality, Delacroix’s portrait of Sand had been a dual portrait with Chopin (this is basically the famous one on innumerable Chopin tracks). He later slice the canvas in 2. Peter, whenever Lincoln Center revived Carousel a little while right straight right back they cast a black colored girl in a vital part and also you would not think the whining from many people. Maggie Q is definitely great, she has that don’t-fuck-with-me-I’m-a-goddess quality that I revere in most my feminine stars. XT, i did not also understand Delacroix actually painted Sand, I was thinking which was the moviemakers saying, “let’s slot an additional duration celebrity! ” the real method they many times did. Now I seem to recall that there is an awful lot of “should Chopin FIGHT for Poland! ” stuff that I cast back my memory. Could it be on DVD, We wonder? Siren, do you ever reach begin to see the Epic That Never ended up being? If we remember, we discussed it right here a couple of years ago. I am to you in the Merle appeal. Really gorgeous, but little draw. June Duprez, on the other side hand, place the whammy on me personally years back. When American film Classics revealed American film classics (without disruption, believe it or not), we watched (and re-watched) June when you look at the faux horror movie, The Brighton Strangler (1945). No achievement that is major nonetheless it possessed a strange aura about this. Forgive my stupidity, exactly what’s a bunny in temperature? A bit is read by me about Merle Oberon’s denial of her mom within the Norma Shearer biography. I really couldn’t assist but hate her a little. I’ve pale epidermis and thus does my mom but my grandmother is really a dark-skinned dominican girl with blended history of Spanish, Taino and African. My mom (nor we for example) would deny her, never or conceal her, or refer to her as such a thing apart from just exactly exactly what she’s. I realize that Merle Oberon arises from another right time, but i will never ever get together again the denial of just one very own’s history. If you ask me it is simply simple incorrect. Great post! Many thanks. Siren, if we had been adept at these plain things i’d offer a hyperlink to D’s Sand portrait. Delacroix had been a really friend that is close of and Sand. I do believe most of us agree totally that the recording of imaginative genius (ok, perhaps perhaps perhaps not Sand, though she had been a fantastic girl) is hopeless. The reason, i believe, Impromptu did wonders ended up being that it portrayed contemporary “creative” kinds masquerading as Chopin, Liszt (Julian Sands, for Jesus’s benefit! ), Delacroix, Sand (do not keep in mind if Musset made the cut). Flickhead, which is simply me personally selecting an animal that seemingly have a love life that is active. I suppose I really could also provide gone with kitties or dogs as well as pigeons. Raquelle, this piece that is whole me personally determining whether or perhaps not to hate Merle. We continue to have not made my brain and possibly We never ever will. I might simply simply simply take every thing authored by Higham and Moseley by having a huge grain of salt, honestly. Oberon had been a really actress that is good. Wuthering Heights had been great along with her performance in Divorce of Lady X showed her comic talent also. In addition like Beloved Enemy and First works Courage with Brian Aherne. I do not understand why Oberon is indeed often maligned, frankly. We usually seen her called just breathtaking and that bothers me personally. Clearly many people are eligible for their viewpoint, but we wonder just how much gossip about her remedy for her mother effect people’s judgment of her skill. Sweet to see some shout-outs to Duprez june. None however the Lonely Heart is a better movie on her behalf being with it. I do believe that Cathy in “WUTHERING HEIGHTS” ended up being certainly one of her most useful functions. Oberon ended up being crazy sufficient when you look at the role without going over-the-top. And I also question that Wyler could have permitted her to portray Cathy this kind of a manner that is over-emotional. Have actually I ever been a major fan of oberon? No, I haven’t. But I nevertheless think that she ended up being a fairly damn good actress whenever the part demanded it. Wyler’s ”Wuthering Heights” is decent in many respects, it gets the brutal nature regarding the course relations into the guide and Olivier is Heathcliff but Merle Oberon is simply too innocent and too good which Cathy was not.