Merle Oberon: unforgettable with Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII, overnight stardom in The Scarlet Pimpernel and her greatest role - Cathy to Laurence Olivier's Heathcliffe in Wuthering Heights. Beautiful, romantic and passionate, the men in her life were many and famous. She moved in high society, charming everyone around her. Yet her early life was a mystery so well hidden that it was only after her death and after dedicated, determined research that it was possible to unravel her true story - a story as bizarre and dramatic as any film script. With black and white photographs.