9 thoughts on “Merle Oberon

  1. EVERYTHING to you screams musical or is an occasion to break out into show tunes. So that means little. But you still very may be right. I kno it isn’t Gene Tierney. But to settle this – and because it is raining here today and I have no energy and I’m not adverse to show tunes myself – I will unselfishly watch “State Fair” today and get back to you.

  2. Yup, not 18 minutes into the movie ‘State Fair” is the scene seen here in the GIF. Jeanne is sitting in the back of a pickup truck on the way to the fair, the scene last only a few seconds. Man, you know your musicals!

      • I got a massive dose of goody-two-shoes, hetero love, hog snorting, down on the farm singing insanity if that’s what you mean by good. Is that it was like for you growing up in Indiana? In my defence, there was a period in the mid-1940s where Jeanne Crain, Merle Oberon, and Gene Tierney looked pretty much identical.

  3. Like that in Indiana? Hardly, though that’s how 4-H was sold to me.

    Fun fact, Jeanne Crain was dubbed by and African American woman in that.

    • Good inter-racial lip-synching there, Jeanne! Knowing you, Indiana country gay boy life was a little different than Jeanne’s country girl life in I-o-way (as they pronounced it). But I bet your frocks were just as pretty !

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