MERLE OBERON’S CLAIM
£25,000 DAMAGES SOUGHT HOLLYWOOD, April 17. Mi ms Merle Oberon has filed a suit for damages against Selznick Pictures Incorporated. She declares that her professional reputation was impaired is result of the substitution of Miss Marlene Dietrich in her place to play the lead in the coloured film version of Robert IDchen’s famous novel, “The Garden of Allah." She demands £25,000 on the grounds that the company "had agreed to pay her £I2OO a week for 10 weeks and £2OO a day after that if the picture was not completed within the .stipulated period,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19028, 30 May 1936, Page 11
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97MERLE OBERON’S CLAIM Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19028, 30 May 1936, Page 11
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