Actress Merle Oberon dies

On Nov. 24, 1979, The Times re­por­ted that act­ress Merle Ober­on, whose dark, age­less beauty brought her fame in such films as “Wuther­ing Heights” and “The Scar­let Pim­per­nel,” had died at Ce­dars-Sinai Med­ic­al Cen­ter.