The Private Life of Henry VIII
1933
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The Divorce of Lady X (1938) was a comedy with Olivier and Merle Oberon. Korda had a big success with The Drum (1938), directed by Zoltan and starring Sabu. He produced South Riding (1938), The Challenge (1938), The Rebel Son (1939) and Prison Without Bars (1938).
Mar 8, 2023 · Oberon moved to Britain when she was 17, and it was film producer (and her eventual husband), Alexander Korda, who helped complete her transformation into a white-passing actress.
Oberon married director Alexander Korda in 1939. While married, she had a brief affair in 1941 with Richard Hillary , an RAF fighter pilot who had been badly burned in the Battle of Britain . They met while he was on a goodwill tour of the United States.
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Mar 12, 2023 · She broke out playing Anne Boleyn in director Alexander Korda’s The Private Life of Henry VIII in 1933, which led to her being cast in Sidney Franklin’s World War I drama The Dark Angel ...
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Apr 15, 2022 · Oberon's first big break came from Sir Alexander Korda - a filmmaker she would later marry - who cast her as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). Publicists for Korda...
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May 31, 1985 · Merle Oberon, who died in 1979, was an extraordinarily beautiful actress, best remembered as Cathy in William Wyler’s classic “Wuthering Heights.” But, says her one-time nephew Michael Korda,...
The Private Life of Henry VIII is a 1933 British film directed and co-produced by Alexander Korda and starring Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon and Elsa Lanchester. It was written by Lajos Bíró and Arthur Wimperis for London Film Productions, Korda's production company.
