Editing Merle Oberon (section)

===Relationships and marriages===
Oberon married director [[Alexander Korda]] in 1939. While married, she had a brief affair in 1941 with [[Richard Hillary]], an RAF fighter pilot who had been badly burned in the [[Battle of Britain]]. They met while he was on a goodwill tour of the United States. He later wrote the best-selling autobiography ''[[The Last Enemy (autobiography)|The Last Enemy]]''.  

Oberon became Lady Korda when her husband was knighted in 1942 by [[George VI|King George VI]] for his contribution to the war effort.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=35719 |date=25 September 1942 |page=4175}}</ref> At the time, the couple was based at [[Hills House, Denham|Hills House]] in [[Denham, Buckinghamshire|Denham, England]]. She divorced him in 1945 to marry the American [[cinematographer]] [[Lucien Ballard]]. Ballard devised a special camera light for her, to obscure on film her facial scars suffered in the 1937 accident. The light became known as [[Catch_light|the "Obie"]].<ref name=biography>Higham and Moseley 1983, p. 161.</ref> She and Ballard divorced in 1949.

Oberon married Italian-born industrialist Bruno Pagliai in 1957, adopted two children with him and lived in [[Cuernavaca]], [[Morelos]], Mexico. While married to Pagliai, she had an affair with model [[Michael Edwards (actor)|Mike Edwards]], who was 33 years her junior.<ref>{{cite book|first=Michael|last=Edwards|year=1988|title=Priscilla, Elvis, and Me|publisher=St. Martin's Press|pages=[https://archive.org/details/priscillaelvisme00edwa/page/214 214–215]|isbn=9780312022686}}</ref> In 1973, Oberon met then 36-year-old Dutch actor [[Robert Wolders]] while they filmed ''[[Interval (film)|Interval]]''. Oberon divorced Pagliai and married Wolders, who was 25 years her junior, in 1975.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Christopher|first=Schemering|date=28 April 1985|title=The High Price of Fame and Fortune|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1985/04/28/the-high-price-of-fame-and-fortune/fdc1ebd0-84e2-4a3f-ae0e-00abbd6940a1/|access-date=10 March 2021}}</ref>