Hollywood actress Merle Oberon was born in poverty in India. To make it in the movies, first in London and then Hollywood, she had to invent a new life story that concealed her race. Her advisors came ...

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.

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 ...

It stars Australian actress Margot Robbie ... One of the most well-known was the 1939 version starring Merle Oberon as Cathy and Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff. It was nominated for the Academy ...

She took the lead in the ABC miniseries Queenie (1987), inspired by the life of actress Merle Oberon, and in 1994, she appeared alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme in Timecop, a box office hit that ...

Actress Merle Oberon was in her late 20s when she starred alongside Laurence Olivier in the 1939 movie, as was Juliette Binoche when she played her alongside Ralph Fiennes in a 1992 version.

After a series of snaps of the Barbie actress on set went viral last week ... 1939 version directed by William Wyler, and starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier. The most recent adaption ...

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 ...

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.