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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 ...
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 ...
Merle Oberon Was Way, Way Ahead of Her Time
His instincts proved correct when reviews praised Oberon as a revelation. “Miss Oberon, abandoning the Javanese slant of the ...
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 2023 news that she was half Asian, a ...
‘Love, Queenie’ Review: Merle Oberon’s Screen Secret
A Hollywood beauty whose celebrated roles included Anne Boleyn, Merle Oberon kept her South Asian origins a secret from the ...
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'Love, Queenie' tells a story of passing for white in 1930s Hollywood
The book tells how Merle Oberon, who was born in India and whose mother was half-Sinhalese, had to hide that identity to find ...
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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 Asian Star, by Mayukh Sen. Copyright © 2025 by the author and reprinted with ...
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 Asian Star, by Mayukh Sen. Copyright © ...