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She Was the First Asian Actor to Be Nominated for an Oscar. Few Knew It at the Time.
“Miss Oberon, through most ... So praised was Merle’s performance that it would bring her to the pomp and glitter of the Biltmore Hotel on the night of March 5, 1936, for the eighth annual ...
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Merle Oberon Was Hollywood’s First South Asian Star. It Came at a Cost.
This is excerpted from the book Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South ... bring her to the pomp and glitter of the Biltmore Hotel on the night of March 5, 1936, for the eighth ...
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A Hollywood Star With a Secret That Could Have Ended Her Career
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 ...
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‘Love, Queenie’ Review: Merle Oberon’s Screen Secret
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 ...
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Why Merle Oberon, ‘Hollywood’s first South Asian star,’ kept her race a secret
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 ...
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A Hollywood Star With a Career-Ending Secret
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 ...
The Atlantic22d
Merle Oberon Was Way, Way Ahead of Her Time
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 ...
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She Was the First Asian Actor to Be Nominated for an Oscar. Few Knew It at the Time.
This is excerpted from the book Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South ... bring her to the pomp and glitter of the Biltmore Hotel on the night of March 5, 1936, for the eighth ...
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Why Merle Oberon, 'Hollywood's first South Asian star,' kept her race a secret
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 ...