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1 online resource (55 min.) |
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Australasian video online |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed November 24, 2014) |
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In English |
| Subject |
Oberon, Merle, 1911-1979.
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Oberon, Merle, 1911-1979. |
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Actresses -- Australia -- Biography
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Passing (Identity) -- Australia
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Actresses.
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Passing (Identity)
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Australia.
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Documentary films.
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Biographies.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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Streaming video
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Delofski, Marè‹e.
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Noakes, David E.
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Film Australia (Organization)
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National Film and Sound Archive (Australia)
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