Hollywood actress Merle Oberon was born in poverty in India. To make it in the movies, first in London and then Hollywood, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Merle Oberon was the first Indian-origin actors to cross over to international cinema. She was certainly not the last!

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 ...

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 ...

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