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Nickname:	Queenie Thompson / Obie
Known for:	Wuthering Heights, A Song to Remember, That Uncertain Feeling
Birth name:	Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson
Birthday:	19 February 1911, India
Height:	5' 2" (1.57 m)

Was known as "Queenie Thompson" up until 1939 when her then husband Alexander Korda convinced her to change her name. Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Garden of Remembrance, 2nd section, left side. Because of facial scars the actress sustained in a London car crash in 1937, her future husband, cinematographer Lucien Ballard, designed a compact spotlight that he coined the "Obie" (Oberon's nickname). Mounted on the side of the camera, the device lights the subject head on, thus reducing the incidence of unflattering facial lines and shadows. Lost the role of "Domini Enfilden" in The Garden of Allah to Marlene Dietrich. Born under the sign of Aquarius! To hide her half-Indian parentage, she would falsely represent to visitors that her mother was the maid. Her father hailed from Britain and her mother from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Had extremely sensitive skin -- suffered from cosmetic poisoning twice, the second time left permanent scarring Measurements: 33 1/2-24-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) Early publicity stated that she was born in Tasmania, rather than India. At that time, a Tasmanian background was considered "classier" than her true half-caste origins. Two children, Francesca Pagliai and Bruno Pagliai Jr. Her will left most of her money to be divided between her children. She left $1 million to the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital. Her husband, Robert Wolders, got nothing, at his own request. In 1949, twelve years after her mother's death, she commissioned a painting of her mother from an old photograph, instructing the painter to lighten her mother's complexion in the painting to hide the fact that she is part-Indian.

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