The term 'national security' wasn't always around. It was invented, effectively, by US President Franklin D Roosevelt, as a call to Americans to get involved in WW2. And Hollywood actress Merle Oberon ...

Ever since Merle Oberon made history as the first actress of Indian descent to star in a major Hollywood film with 1935’s The Dark Angel, Indian actors have been sporadically featuring in ...

CINEMA Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star Mayukh Sen W.W. Norton & Company, $29.99 Who was the most beautiful actress ever in film? Merle Oberon of course.

Cora Sue Collins, who rose to stardom as a child actress while playing the daughter ... Oscar nomination for best picture, and a young Merle Oberon in the World War I drama “The Dark Angel ...

Former child actress Cora Sue Collins has died ... In the 30s and 40s, she worked alongside plenty of film legends like Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Irene Dunne, Merle Oberon, and Claudette Colbert. For ...

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 ...

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 ...

This won’t be the first time Wuthering Heights graces the screen. From the 1939 version with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier to Heathcliff portrayals by Tom Hardy and Ralph Fiennes, Emily’s one and ...

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 ...

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 ...