The 97th Academy Awards ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 2 ...

British actor Merle Oberon’s greatest role might have been played off-camera. She kept her biracial heritage a secret so that ...

Merle Oberon was a popular actress who was once nominated for an Oscar. But a fact that she hid from the public threatened to ...

The book tells how Merle Oberon, who was born in India and whose mother was half-Sinhalese, had to hide that identity to find ...

His instincts proved correct when reviews praised Oberon as a revelation. “Miss Oberon, abandoning the Javanese slant of the ...

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 ...

SSA says the cost-cutting measures are aimed to streamline redundant layers of management and reassign employees to customer service positions.

The chroniclers of classic-era Hollywood have never quite known what to do with Merle Oberon. A star whose beauty was celebrated, whose acting was tolerable and whose late-life vanity made her ...

A Hollywood beauty whose celebrated roles included Anne Boleyn, Merle Oberon kept her South Asian origins a secret from the ...

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 new biography, sparked in part by the 2023 news that she was half Asian, a ...

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 ...