Merle Oberon is Temptation

The classy beauty Merle Oberon fits to a T her role in Temptation (1946), one ‘you can’t resist.’

Born in Tasmania, Australia and educated in India, Miss Oberon is the daughter of a British army officer, and according to an unauthorized biography, a Hindu woman she introduced as a maid. She was signed up by producer Alexander Korda who became her first husband, in the late ’50s, Miss Oberon married Italian business magnate Bruno Pagliaii. As Mrs. Pagliaii, Miss Oberon became the toast of the high society and fashion world of Europe, consistently included on the list of the best dressed women of the world.

Miss Oberon starred in such films as Wuthering Heights, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Beloved Enemy, Night in Paradise, A Song to Remember (as George Sand), Berlin Express, The Lady From Boston, Deep in my Heart, Desiree (as Empress Josephine), Hotel.   — RKC