Tonight, I watched that wonderful old melodramatic, flowery and grandiloquent “Wuthering Heights” with the gloriously hammy Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier. Now, that was film making!

James Mercadante Vivien Leigh won the Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind while her soon-to-be-husband, Laurence Olivier, was nominated for Best Actor in ...

His instincts proved correct when reviews praised Oberon as a revelation. “Miss Oberon, abandoning the Javanese slant of the ...

Another version of Wuthering Heights, starring Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff and Merle Oberon as Cathy, came along in 1939 and was filmed, less authentically, in Hollywood studio lots with the ...

Christopher Hughes, who was one of the stars of the hit TV show Eggheads, has died. Hughes was in the original line-up and joined the show more than 20 years ago after winning Mastermind and ...

By 1939, Oberon was at a peak. She starred in “Wuthering Heights,” her best-remembered film, with Laurence Olivier. She married Korda and he showered her with jewels. They bought a luxurious home in ...

With Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights ... They were expecting a 35-year-old man, i.e. Laurence Olivier, who was fully grown in [his 1939 film.] In the book, they were teenagers—and he was ...

A Hollywood beauty whose celebrated roles included Anne Boleyn, Merle Oberon kept her South Asian origins a secret from the movie industry and audiences.

Now, his new look is supposedly for his upcoming role as the lead in Wuthering Heights ... as seen on previous portrayals from the likes of Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton and Timothy Dalton. General ...