An exotic, dark-haired beauty of regal bearing who starred in international film productions for four decades, Merle Oberon (1911-1979) was born in India to a British father and a mother from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Oberon began in movies as an extra after moving to England at age 17. She was groomed for stardom by producer-director Alexander Korda, to whom she was married from 1939 to 1945.

After Korda sold part of her contract to Samuel Goldwyn, Oberon began splitting her time between England and the U.S., appearing in such Hollywood films as Dark Angel (1935), for which she received a Best Actress Oscar nomination, and These Three (1936), William Wyler's first film version of the Lillian Hellman play The Children's Hour. Oberon's best-remembered role, also under Wyler's direction, was as Laurence Olivier's "wild, beautiful Cathy" in Wuthering Heights (1939). Highlights of Oberon's later career include Desiree (1954), The Oscar (1966) and Hotel (1967). Her final film was Interval (1973).

The movies in TCM's tribute to Merle Oberon are These Three (1936), Wuthering Heights (1939), 'Til We Meet Again (1940), That Uncertain Feeling (1941) and Night Song (1948).