So Merle Oberon, she was born as Queenie Thomson ... And that sort of tension, I think, really reached a boiling point later in her life. When it comes to conversations about Asian identity ...

As the first Asian, and only South Asian, to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, Merle Oberon’s place ... really# reached a boiling point later in her life. AMNA NAWAZ: You write also in ...

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 ...

Merle Oberon is credited as the first actress ... to blur her blemishes and "whiten" her complexion. Source: BBC Later on in life, it became harder for Oberon to keep her history a secret.

87 years later. Read on to learn more about Oberon's life, career and legacy. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to ...

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 ...

But a fact that she hid from the public threatened to unspool her entire life’s work. Merle Oberon in the 1935 Oscar ... or even decades later, as immigration restrictions eased up.

As Wuthering Heights’ Catherine Earnshaw, Merle Oberon runs through a gamut of emotions ... Merle found a secure, comfortable life, especially with her third husband, Italian-born industrialist ...

A few years later in 1978, Oberon was invited to Hobart ... Princess Merle: The Romantic Life of Merle Oberon, that the truth was revealed to the public when the authors located her birth records ...

Merle Oberon preceded Yeoh 87 years ago — though no one knew it at the time. The star of 1935’s The Dark Angel, for which she was nominated, kept her Indian heritage hidden her entire life.

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 ...