Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first was a person who did not acknowledge her own heritage, but instead passed for white, biracial actress Merle Oberon, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...
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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 ...
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 Hollywood career was over. It had ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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