DEVASTATING BEAUTY : the CUT

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 "Beauty can be isolating."

Richard Avedon

GRETA GARBO "Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening."

  

GRACE KELLY "Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal."

MERLE OBERON  "Without security it is difficult for a woman to look or feel beautiful."

of MARELLA AGNELLI Capote said "If they were both in Tiffany's window, Marella would be more expensive."(the other 'they' being Babe Paley.)

Pauline de Rothschild "Elegance. The most fleeting, intractable of qualities. It can be increased, but rarely bought outright."

 James Lees-Milne said of DIANA MITFORD her beauty was "the closest to Botticelli's Venus that I have ever seen."

PAUL NEWMAN "You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career."

GARY COOPER “The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all”

Giorgi Armani said of TINA CHOW " Tina had an innate elegance and never needed any designer to do anything for her. Rather she did a lot for us."

DONYALE LUNA "Back in Detroit I wasn't considered beautiful or anything but here I'm different"



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DB VIII MERLE

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"Queenie"

of Merle Oberon, esteemed HOBAC (the House of Beauty and Culture) said She was exotic before exotic became de trop. Oberon was Anglo-Indian and whether living in India or England the mix was a black mark. Merle stopped her public studies as a child and learned at home because of the stigma. After getting encouragement to try movies-Merle and her Indian mother traveled to Paris and ultimately England where Alexander Korda took her career in hand. A past was invented, her mother lived as Merle's Indian maid and Tasmania, Australia became her place of birth. The story followed this Devastating Beauty her entire life-only upon her death did the truth come to light.

Married four times, Oberon's last husband was Robert Wolders, companion to another Beauty on the List- Audrey Hepburn.

for more about Merle Oberon read this article
for movies and more Oberon here
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