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Actor Merle Oberon hid her South Asian heritage to keep working in Hollywood
British actor Merle Oberon’s greatest role might have been played off-camera. She kept her biracial heritage a secret so that ...
A Hollywood Star With a Secret That Could Have Ended Her Career
Merle Oberon was a popular actress who was once nominated for an Oscar. But a fact that she hid from the public threatened to ...
Why Merle Oberon, ‘Hollywood’s first South Asian star,’ kept her race a secret
Golden Age film star Merle Oberon comes alive in a new biography, sparked in part by the 2023 news that she was half Asian, a ...
Merle Oberon Was Way, Way Ahead of Her Time
His instincts proved correct when reviews praised Oberon as a revelation. “Miss Oberon, abandoning the Javanese slant of the ...
WBUR13d
'Love, Queenie' tells a story of passing for white in 1930s Hollywood
The book tells how Merle Oberon, who was born in India and whose mother was half-Sinhalese, had to hide that identity to find ...
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Merle Oberon Was Hollywood’s First South Asian Star. It Came at a Cost.
This is excerpted from the book Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star, by Mayukh Sen. Copyright © 2025 by the author and reprinted with ...
The Island1d
Oscars recognizing talent, overlooking skin colour and racial origins
The 97th Academy Awards ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 2 ...
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Why Merle Oberon, 'Hollywood's first South Asian star,' kept her race a secret
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 ...
The Unsung Pioneer of the Oscars
Christopher Hughes, who was one of the stars of the hit TV show Eggheads, has died. Hughes was in the original line-up and joined the show more than 20 years ago after winning Mastermind and ...