Cast: Merle Oberon

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Merle Oberon. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Wuthering Heights

1939 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

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

Plot 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....

7.4

5K votes

7.4

5K votes

These Three

1936 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

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

Plot 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...

7.1

578 votes

7.1

578 votes

The Private Life of Henry VIII

1933 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alexander Korda

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

Plot 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...

Max

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

That Uncertain Feeling

1941 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

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

Plot 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...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

The Epic That Never Was (TV)

1967 · Documentary · 74 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Duncalf

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

Plot 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...

6.8

28 votes

6.8

28 votes

Berlin Express

1948 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

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

Plot 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...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

The Scarlet Pimpernel

1934 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harold Young

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

Plot 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....

Max

6.6

894 votes

6.6

894 votes

A Song to Remember

1945 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Charles Vidor

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

Plot 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,...

6.5

266 votes

6.5

266 votes

The Lodger

1944 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction John Brahm

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

Plot 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...

6.4

581 votes

6.4

581 votes

Night Song

1947 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction John Cromwell

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

Plot 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...

6.4

77 votes

6.4

77 votes

Dark Waters

1944 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

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

Plot 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...

6.3

193 votes

6.3

193 votes

The Divorce of Lady X

1938 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tim Whelan

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

Plot 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...

6.3

245 votes

6.3

245 votes

The Cowboy and the Lady

1938 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction H.C. Potter

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

Plot 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...

6.2

232 votes

6.2

232 votes

Désirée

1954 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

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

Plot 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...

6.2

869 votes

6.2

869 votes

The Dark Angel

1935 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Franklin

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

Plot 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...

6.2

78 votes

6.2

78 votes

The Private Life of Don Juan

1934 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alexander Korda

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

Plot 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...

6.1

65 votes

6.1

65 votes

Deep in My Heart

1954 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Donen

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

Plot Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.

6.0

52 votes

6.0

52 votes

Lydia

1941 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Julien Duvivier

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

Plot 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...

6.0

56 votes

6.0

56 votes

Hotel

1967 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

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

Plot 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),...

5.8

165 votes

5.8

165 votes

The Oscar

1966 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Russell Rouse

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

Plot 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,...

5.7

85 votes

5.7

85 votes