Golden Age film star Merle Oberon comes alive in a new biography, sparked in part by the recent news that she was half Asian, a secret she kept all her life. (Cecil Beaton / Condé Nast via Getty ...

Before Michelle Yeoh made history as the second Best Actress Academy Award nominee of Asian heritage, there was Merle Oberon. Born in India, Oberon is perhaps best known for her roles in The Scarlet ...

Dr Uther Charlton-Stevens, author of Anglo-India and the End of Empire (Hurst Publishers, UK, Oxford University Press, USA, 2022) with Merle Oberon in her breakout role as Anne Boleyn in The Private ...

Merle Oberon was briefly a Hollywood star in the early days of film, whose biggest role was opposite Lawrence Olivier in Wuthering Heights. Her career fizzled after that, partly because of persistent ...

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When the star of ‘The Dark Angel’ earned an Oscar nomination for best actress in 1936, she became the first Asian to do so — though no one knew it at the time. By Hilton Dresden Associate Awards ...

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 to ...

Who was Merle Oberon? The family background of the Alexander Korda discovery and star of "Wuthering Heights" (1939) and many other films of the '30s, '40s and '50s is explored in this intriguing but ...

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 for ...