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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 ...

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 ...

In 1936, Merle Oberon became the first Asian woman–and person of color–to receive an Oscar nomination for best actress. She was nominated for... A new biography tells the story of a South Asian ...

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 ...

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 seem an ...

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 ...

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 ...