Merle Oberon Comes To State In “Over The Moon”
Merle Oberon is the star of “Over The Moon,” beginning at the State Theatre on Friday. Rex Harrison heads the supporting cast, which includes Louis Borrell, Robert Douglas and Ursula Jeans. . The story provides Miss Oberon with a role in direct contrast to the heavy drama of “Wuthering Heights.” She is cast as a North country girl who inherits an enormous fortune and slips into a life of gaiety, forgetting her local
doctor sweetheart. Her activities at the Monte Carlo gaming tables, the smart night clubs Bf* London, the cafes of Paris, and the gay casinos and" golden sands of the Riviera are front page news while her mad gambol lasts. Then comes disillusionment and she remembers her former sweetheart. By a ruse she persuades him to go with her to Italy, and with the heln of a series of mythical troubles she convinces him just in time to get married.
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Southland Times, Issue 24163, 27 June 1940, Page 11
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