“We sat in that beautiful living room in Bel-Air, and there was this huge box of chocolates. Trim and boyish-looking at 51, he has the direct, concentrated manner of a man used to making the most of his time. “I remember being taken over to Alex and Merle’s house by my father,” said Korda, sitting in a Beverly Hills hotel suite. But when I was a child, children were of no interest or consequence to her.” That was mainly during World War II when the entire Korda clan-Sir Alexander Korda, Michael’s illustrious producer-director uncle and Oberon’s husband at the time Vincent Korda, Michael’s distinguished art-director father, and Zoltan Korda, another uncle and eminent director-was in Hollywood exile. She was very difficult with children, although I always heard that she was wonderful with her adopted children. “I found her a bit awesome and frightening.
Korda tends to remember Oberon with more admiration than affection.
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