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Movie actresses have always given Portraitist Brockhurst a bad time. Merle Oberon was chronically late to sittings. Marlene Dietrich couldn't sit still, got bored after two or three sittings, so her portrait was left unfinished. The easiest person Brockhurst can imagine painting is John L. Lewis. "With his heavy dark eyebrows and face like a Pekingese, I could do him in three hours." But, so far, Lewis hasn't applied for a sitting...
French actress Paula Dehelly may "dub" [French dialogue] for Bergman, Hepburn, et al. [TIME, May 8], but you were wrong to include Merle Oberon. I recently completed an on-the-set writing assignment for a made-in-France film (Pardon My French) starring Miss Oberon-a double-version with each scene shot first in English and then in French-and I can vouch for Miss Oberon's mellifluent rendition of my English speeches in French translation...
...TIME did not say that Merle Oberon, Ingrid Bergman or other stars could not speak French. Nevertheless, Paula Dehelly was Cinemactress Oberon's French voice in Temptation, That Uncertain Feeling and This Love of Ours...
When Katharine Hepburn, Joan Fontaine, Jean Arthur, Merle Oberon and Ingrid Bergman speak their lines on France's movie screens, they talk French as fluently as natives. This is not strange because each of them uses the same native tongue and larynx; tiny, blue-eyed French Actress Paula Dehelly does the talking for all of them...
...Cannes, while his great & good friend, Hollywood's Merle Oberon, 38, watched his private plane take off for Venice, wealthy Italian Count Giorgio Cini, 30, was killed in a crash when he flew low to buzz the airstrip. Cinemactress Oberon cried: "My life is finished. There's no point in going...