Arthur Thompson had been Selby’s boyfriend. It turns out that Selby was really Oberon’s grandmother the actress’s birth mother was actually Selby’s daughter Constance, who was only 12 years old when she had Oberon. After divorcing Ballard, Oberon later married a wealthy older Italian-born, Mexican businessman with whom she adopted two children in 1975 she wed younger actor Robert Wolders, who was later Audrey Hepburn’s companion.Īs for Oberon’s mother, her true identity was revealed in 2014, when the actress’s birth certificate was made public. The film’s success led to leading-lady status, and films including The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Dark Angel-for which she was Oscar-nominated- That Uncertain Feeling, and A Song to Remember.īeals says Margo’s journey-perhaps like Oberon’s-is “about freedom and the price you are willing to pay ,” noting “it’s a very lonely place from which to operate.” That may be why Margo, unlike Oberon, is single in The Last Tycoon. Oberon’s career took off after a move to London at age 17, when English director Alexander Korda cast her in a small but pivotal role as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII in 1933. Like Oberon, Margo likely fears that the truth about her heritage will torpedo her career during a time when racial prejudice was rampant, and silver-screen faces were lily-white, save for a black servant or two. The raven-haired, brown-eyed stunner, probably best known for playing Cathy opposite Laurence Olivier’s Heathcliff in the 1939 classic Wuthering Heights, spent her life hiding her biracial identity, “passing” for white. The character is based on Merle Oberon, a golden-age movie star who was known for her great beauty-and the similar secret she took with her to the grave.
But the most fascinating character may be Margo Taft, an actress played by Jennifer Beals who’s concealing an explosive secret. Kelsey Grammer plays his boss, a figure inspired by Louis B.
Matt Bomer plays a wunderkind producer based on MGM production head Irving Thalberg. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished novel-will look familiar.
If you know your Old Hollywood history, several characters in Amazon’s new series The Last Tycoon-based on F.
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