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The Trouble with Merle
( dir. Maree Delfoski
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Lindfield
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Film Australia
,
2002
Z1030160
2002
single work
film/TV
'Merle Oberon was one of the biggest movie stars of the 1930s and 1940s. Studio publicists said she was born into a wealthy family in Hobart, Tasmania - Australia's island state. Yet rumour was that the exotic almond-eyed actress concealed her true past. It was said she was actually 'oriental', perhaps Anglo-Indian, and born in Calcutta. In Tasmania, many remain convinced she was their island's most famous daughter, born not to wealthy parents but to a Chinese hotel worker and her married employer. The Trouble with Merle looks at celebrity, memory, identity, race and class...and at why Merle Oberon's origins mattered to people on a tiny island, in a country at the bottom of the world.'
(Source: Film Australia, http://www.filmaust.com.au/)
Last amended 30 Apr 2003 12:08:14
