Merle Oberon

During her Hobart stay Merle Oberon remained in her hotel gave no other interviews and did not visit the theatre named in her honour. Oberon's career went on to greater heights partly as a result of her relationship with and later marriage to Alexander Korda who had persuaded her to take the name under which Merle Oberon became famous. The O'Briens adopted the baby and took her to India where Merle Oberon grew up.

A traffic collision in 1937 caused facial injuries that could have ended her career but Merle Oberon soon followed this with her most renowned performance in Wuthering Heights (1939). She began her film career in British films as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933).