![]() ![]() “I’ve always thought that was some indication of what their marriage must have been like. ![]() I reached for it and heard this voice from somewhere say, ‘Don’t touch it!’ After a while, I reached again-and again, ‘Don’t touch it!’ Finally, Vincent said to Alex, ‘Is Merle here? I thought she was at the studio.’ ‘Ah,’ said Alex, ‘that’s the bloody parrot! It listens to Merle all the time.’ “We sat in that beautiful living room in Bel-Air, and there was this huge box of chocolates. Trim and boyish-looking at 51, he has the direct, concentrated manner of a man used to making the most of his time. “I remember being taken over to Alex and Merle’s house by my father,” said Korda, sitting in a Beverly Hills hotel suite. But when I was a child, children were of no interest or consequence to her.” That was mainly during World War II when the entire Korda clan-Sir Alexander Korda, Michael’s illustrious producer-director uncle and Oberon’s husband at the time Vincent Korda, Michael’s distinguished art-director father, and Zoltan Korda, another uncle and eminent director-was in Hollywood exile. ![]() She was very difficult with children, although I always heard that she was wonderful with her adopted children. “I found her a bit awesome and frightening. Korda tends to remember Oberon with more admiration than affection. ![]()
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