W. Norton & Company, Inc. At the start of 1935, a year before she would become the first performer of color and Asian actress to be nominated for an Academy Award, Merle Oberon feared her ...

At the start of 1935, a year before she would become the first performer of color and Asian actress to be nominated for an Academy Award, Merle Oberon feared her Hollywood career was over.

Golden Age film star Merle Oberon comes alive in a breezy new biography ... When Michelle Yeoh was nominated for the lead actress Oscar for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” news outlets ...

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 ...

“Some recordkeepers consider Merle Oberon (1936, The Dark Angel) to be the first Asian best actress nominee, but she hid her ancestry (her mother was reportedly of partial Sri Lankan ...

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 ...

Hollywood actress Merle Oberon was born in poverty in India. To make it in the movies, first in London and then Hollywood, she had to invent a new life story that concealed her race. Her advisors came ...

Merle Oberon was a popular actress who was once nominated for an Oscar. But a fact that she hid from the public threatened to unspool her entire life’s work. Merle Oberon in the 1935 Oscar ...

Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star." The book tells how Oberon, who was born in India and whose mother was half-Sinhalese, had to hide that identity to find success as an actress.

Only after the actress’ death in 1979 ... she had already dubbed herself Merle Oberon and conquered London under the wing of Alexander Korda, the Hungarian-born producer and director who ...

Golden Age film star Merle Oberon comes alive in a breezy new biography ... When Michelle Yeoh was nominated for the lead actress Oscar for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” news outlets ...

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 role in “The Dark Angel.” There was ...