FILM STAR'S CLAIM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23027, 3 May 1938, Page 11

FILM STAR'S CLAIM

MISS MERLE OBERON SEQUEL TO COLLISION HUGE LOSS THROUGH INJURY (Received May 3, 3.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 2 Claiming damages for personal injuries and consequential loss, the film actress M iss M erle Oberon sued Herbert Bundy, of Edgware, tlie Auto Sales Company and also the Motor Combine and Sidney Digby in a complicated Kings Bench action. Counsel said Digby was driving Miss Oberon's car when a motor driven by Bundy, employed by tho Auto Sales Company, collided with it. The Auto Sales Company contended that Bund.v was for the time in the employ of the Motor Combine as be was delivering a repaired car to it. Digby was included among the defendants as Bundy blamed him for the collision, in which Miss Oberon received concussion and as a result spent three weeks in hospital and was unable to work for between six and seven weeks. Miss Oberon was then receiving £SOO a week as tbe principal female character in tho film "I, Claudius," which was abandoned owing to the accident. Miss Oberon lost £2976 and also lost 43 days of her "film life,"/in which, on the terms of her employment with London Film Productions, she could have earned £7600.

Miss Oberon's - evidence had been taken in America on commission. She did not blame Digby for tho accident.