Merle Oberon became the first Asian actress to be nominated for an Oscar for her role in “The Dark Angel.” There was no ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

Merle Oberon was born in Bombay, spent her adolescence in Calcutta, and became a Hollywood star in the 1930s and 1940s. But ...

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 ...

“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 ...