Golden Age film star Merle Oberon comes alive in a breezy new biography, sparked in part by the 2023 news that she was half Asian, a secret she kept all her life. When Michelle Yeoh was nominated ...

Why Merle Oberon Kept Her Mixed-Race Background a Secret in Hollywood: ‘She Would Have to Pass as White’ LOUISE A. BARILE and Fortune Benatar Thu, April 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM UTC ...

Mayukh Sen was just a high schooler when he first encountered Merle Oberon in the 1939 film "Wuthering Heights." “I felt an immediate draw to her — not only because she was South Asian like myself, ...

This biography of Merle Oberon traces her roots from a life of poverty in India to the glamour of 1930s Hollywood, where she ...

As the first Asian, and only South Asian, to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, Merle Oberon’s place in the pantheon of cinema is historic. But it came with enormous sacrifice as Oberon had ...

Host Deepa Fernandes speaks with Mayukh Sen about his new book, "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star." The book tells how Oberon, who was born in India and whose mother ...

As the first Asian, and only South Asian, to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, Merle Oberon’s place in the pantheon of cinema is historic. But it came with enormous sacrifice as Oberon had ...

First Latvian film to win an Oscar (“Flow”). But one first that’s often overlooked is Merle Oberon’s. In 1936, Oberon became the first Asian actress to be nominated for an Oscar for her ...