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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In 1935, a young actor named Merle Oberon landed the role of a lifetime. The Hollywood mogul Samuel Goldwyn was planning to remake the 1925 silent film The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

But she’s not the first to be nominated: Merle Oberon preceded Yeoh 87 years ago — though no one knew it at the time. The star of 1935’s The Dark Angel, for which she was nominated ...

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 ...