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 ...
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 ...
Host Deepa Fernandes speaks with Mayukh Sen about his new book, "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star." The book tells how Oberon, who was born in India and whose mother was ...
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Merle Oberon Was Way, Way Ahead of Her Time
In 1935, a young actor named Merle Oberon landed the role of a lifetime. The Hollywood mogul Samuel Goldwyn was planning to remake the 1925 silent film The Dark Angel as a talkie. Oberon, with her ...
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 ...
Merle Oberon was a popular actress who was once nominated for an Oscar. But a fact that she hid from the public threatened to unspool her entire life’s work. Merle Oberon in the 1935 Oscar-nominated ...
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 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 ...
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