As a youngster we dropped for Merle in per night in Paradise — an easy method cheezy confection by which she actually 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, From the Powell stating that and in addition thought it had been insanely odd. We have the impression that many Hollywood people, whatever form 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, mind you, i believe the rabbits-in-heat component is certainly one of Hollywood’s great charms. ) I’ve seen the Turhan Bey extravaganza and seeing Oberon in costume because of it simply allows you to genuinely believe that individuals were consciously ignoring the most obvious. It had been exactly about deniability, i assume. P.S. Warmest congrats from the Red Shoes gig!! Which is 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. We remember it as a film that is truly terrible but i am not exactly the snob I became once I saw it (or maybe a different type of kind of snob). It will have one or more priceless scene, though: while Chopin, newly found its way to Paris from Poland, will be told he is too old to be a young child prodigy ( that he definitely is), he hears their music being played within the space across the street. Whom should really be playing it but the earth’s pianist that is greatest, Franz Liszt? Chopin joins within the performance, and also as the 2 males shake fingers, they’re going on playing the songs, one hand each. Absurd. Marvellous. My fave rabbit-in-heat has long been Burt Lancaster. David, my RIH that is favorite is 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 actually do keep in mind Paul Muni planning to see Oberon-as-Sand whenever Chopin is dying. She is posing for a painter (wait for this) and icily informs Muni this woman isn’t planning to go running down to some deathbed. I’m able to nevertheless remember her snapping, “Continue, Mr. Delacroix! ” But that is about all i will 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 during the helm. Showing on which occurred with Oberon, things have not changed that much. The Hawaiian born Maggie Q had to head to Hong Kong to be a film celebrity. She actually is just gotten a few supporting functions in big Hollywood movies, although a revival for the television show Nikita might alert the public from what us Hong Kong movie watchers have actually recognized for decades. Nor could be the necessitate racially casting that is correct to the region of the hemisphere, as there have been complaints regarding Ms. Quigley’s starring within the duration epic Three Kingdoms. Ah, but Song to consider has its own priceless scenes (if he continues on this concert trip it’s going to literally and in actual fact destroy him! ” “Discontinue that so-called polonaise nonsense! Though i really hope my memory is not playing tricks): “” Ida Lupino as Cathy, though I hear Yojimboen clucking skeptically 3,000 kilometers away. In reality, Delacroix’s portrait of Sand had been a double portrait with Chopin (here is the famous one on innumerable Chopin tracks). He later slice the canvas in 2. Peter, whenever Lincoln Center revived Carousel a bit straight back they cast a black colored girl in an integral part and you also would not think the whining from many people. Maggie Q should indeed be great, she has that don’t-fuck-with-me-I’m-a-goddess quality that we revere in most my feminine stars. XT, i did not also understand Delacroix actually painted Sand, I was thinking that has been the moviemakers saying, “let’s slot in another duration celebrity! ” the real means they so frequently did. Now that we cast straight back my memory I appear to remember that there surely is a lot of “should Chopin FIGHT for Poland! ” material. Could it be on DVD, I wonder? Siren, did you ever reach begin to see the Epic That Never ended up being? We discussed it here a few years ago if I recall. I am to you regarding the Merle appeal. Extremely stunning, but little draw. June Duprez, on the other side hand, place the whammy on me personally years back. When American film Classics revealed American movie classics (without disruption, believe it or not), we viewed (and re-watched) June into the faux horror movie, The Brighton Strangler (1945). No major success, however it possessed a strange aura about any of it. Forgive my stupidity, exactly what’s a bunny in temperature? A bit is read by me about Merle Oberon’s denial of her mom when you look at the Norma Shearer biography. I possibly couldn’t assist but hate her a little. We have pale epidermis and thus does my mother but my grandmother is just A dominican that is dark-skinned woman blended history of Spanish, Taino and African. My mom (nor we for instance) would never ever reject her, or conceal her, or refer to her as such a thing aside from exactly just exactly what she actually is. I am aware that Merle Oberon originates from another time, but i could never ever get together again the denial of 1 own’s history. For me it is simply simple incorrect. Great post! Thank you. Siren, if we had been adept at these plain things i’d offer a web link to D’s Sand portrait. Delacroix ended up being a tremendously friend that is close of and Sand. I believe most of us agree totally that the recording of imaginative genius (ok, maybe perhaps maybe not Sand, though she ended up being a fantastic girl) is hopeless. The main reason, i do believe, Impromptu did wonders ended up being so it portrayed contemporary “creative” kinds masquerading as Chopin, Liszt (Julian Sands, for God’s benefit! ), Delacroix, Sand (do not keep in mind if Musset made the cut). Flickhead, that is simply me personally choosing an animal that appears to have a working love life. We guess I really could likewise have gone with kitties or dogs and sometimes even pigeons. Raquelle, this entire piece had been me personally determining whether or otherwise not to hate Merle. We continue to haven’t made my brain and possibly We never ever will. I would personally simply just simply take everything authored by Higham and Moseley with a huge grain of sodium, honestly. Oberon had been an extremely actress that is good. Wuthering Heights had been great along with her performance in Divorce of Lady X showed her comic skill aswell. In addition like Beloved Enemy and First works Courage with Brian Aherne. I’m not sure why Oberon is really so usually maligned, frankly. We usually seen her known as just gorgeous and that bothers me personally. Demonstrably most people are eligible for their viewpoint, but we wonder exactly exactly how gossip that is much her remedy for her mother effect people’s judgment of her skill. Sweet to see some shout-outs to June Duprez. 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 readily useful functions. Oberon ended up being wild sufficient within the part without going over-the-top. And I also doubt that Wyler could have permitted her to portray Cathy such a manner that is over-emotional. Have actually I ever been a major fan of oberon? No, I have never. But we nevertheless genuinely believe 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 receives the nature that is brutal of course relations within the guide and Olivier is Heathcliff but Merle Oberon is just too innocent and too good which Cathy was not.