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 ...

As Wuthering Heights’ Catherine Earnshaw, Merle Oberon runs through a gamut of emotions over her tumultuous love affair with Heathcliff, played by Sir Laurence Olivier. “I’m yours Heathcliff,” she ...

Merle Oberon was briefly a Hollywood star in the early days of film, whose biggest role was opposite Lawrence Olivier in Wuthering Heights. Her career fizzled after that, partly because of persistent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Merle Oberon is credited as the first actress of Asian descent to be nominated for an Academy Award. However, she kept her South Asian heritage hidden for her entire life — the truth coming out years ...

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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 ...

Queenie Thompson grew up poor at Bombay, now Mumbai, with a South Asian mother who had been raped by a white man and raised by her grandmother, who pretended to be her mother while Queenie’s mother ...

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 ...

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 ...