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Win or lose, how will Merle Oberon's fight against the movie powers-that-be affect her future career?
The Exclusive Inside Story
of Merle Oberon's
$123,000 Damage Suit
A FAMOUS producer, his associates and a battery of lawyers may have been surprised when Merle Oberon filed suit for $123,000 damages when she was removed from the cast of "The Garden Of Allah" in favor of Marlene Dietrich.
After its fashion, Hollywood may have been surprised, too. In matters of this kind, replaced beauties are usually too busy saving face behind a barrage of excuses to bother with legal redress.
But those who know Merle Oberon, and know her well, were not surprised!
Hollywood never has, and never will be able to kick Merle Oberon around; neither will life, nor fate, nor destiny ever be able to down her. Back of those smoldering eyes, underneath that dusky, poetic beauty is the fightingest lady I know. Maybe there is Irish mixed up in that French-English-Dutch ancestry of hers. Whatever it is, it's dynamite.
Merle hadn't been in Hollywood long before the town had good cause to have a healthy respect for her. It began with the rumors that certain feminine factions were deliberately snubbing her — either omitting her name entirely from important guest lists or else in -p -- ._ viting her to social events for the sheer &Y WQlTGn rlGGV©
devilment of turning a cold shoulder. No doubt cliches were afraid of this newcomer and her reputation as a "great vamp." But the Silken Sisters of the Snoot reckoned without their target. For what did Merle do but grant me, her first interviewer, a story entitled: "Hollywood Women On The Pan" in which she not only related the insults but came awfully close to actually naming the insulters.
Well, you could have knocked the girls over with a leather! This was not according to Hoyle at all. Other snubbed ladies had taken it lying down, crawled into a self-conscious shell and remained on the outskirts of the social circle. But this newcomer had turned both barrels on their tactics and fired away with a blast of publicity that almost floored them: no one had ever dared do this before. It had two effects: the victims with a sense of humor chuckled over the Oberon daring and became her staunchest friends and most ardent admirers; the others were just plain scared into civility!
That should have served as a lesson to Hollywood. Merle has a way of bringing issues out into the open where they may be fought in the bright light of public opinion.
And if that wasn't sufficient lesson, her present defiance of the Big Wigs of Hollywood would be! | please turn to pack 1 10 |
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