First Comes Courage
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First Comes Courage is a 1943 American war film, the final film directed by Dorothy Arzner, one of the few female directors in Hollywood at the time. The film was based on the 1943 novel Commandos by
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Merle Oberon
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Merle Oberon was a British actress of Sri Lankan Burgher origin. Her career spanned the 1920s to the 1970s, and she was a major leading lady during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
First Comes Courage
…The film was based on the 1943 novel Commandos by Elliott Arnold, adapted by George Sklar, with a screenplay by Melvin Levy and Lewis Meltzer. It stars Merle Oberon and Brian Aherne. In 1942, in occupied Norway, Nicole Larsen is a member of the resistance in the town of Stavik. Nicole pretends to be in love with…
Oberon in 1943
Merle Oberon in 1936
Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights (1939)