The New York Times17d
A Hollywood Star With a Secret That Could Have Ended Her Career
Merle Oberon was a popular actress who was once nominated ... This was because Merle wasn’t widely known to be a person of color: Years before, as she was beginning her career, she decided ...
Slate28d
Merle Oberon Was Hollywood’s First South Asian Star. It Came at a Cost.
W. Norton & Company, Inc. At the start of 1935, a year before she would become the first performer of color and Asian actress to be nominated for an Academy Award, Merle Oberon feared her ...
The New York Times17d
A Hollywood Star With a Career-Ending Secret
Merle Oberon was a popular actress who was once nominated ... This was because Merle wasn’t widely known to be a person of color: Years before, as she was beginning her career, she decided ...
Merle Oberon Was Way, Way Ahead of Her Time
In 1935, a young actor named Merle Oberon landed the role of a ... the public was not aware of a crucial part of Oberon’s life: She was Asian, technically making her the first performer of color to be ...
The Christian Science Monitor12d
Actor Merle Oberon hid her South Asian heritage to keep working in Hollywood
British actor Merle Oberon’s greatest role might have been played off-camera. She kept her biracial heritage a secret so that ...
Los Angeles Times28d
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 ...
AOL28d
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 ...