Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Merle Oberon Studio Portrait. George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Merle Oberon Before Michelle Yeoh made history as the second Best ...

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 ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Michelle Yeoh made history this week ...

She was one of the great stars of Hollywood’s golden age and shared a kiss with Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights. But mystery has always surrounded Merle Oberon’s early life, not least because of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Merle Oberon, a Hollywood star of the black and white era, is a forgotten icon in India, the country of her birth. Best-known for playing the lead in the classic Wuthering Heights, Oberon was an Anglo ...

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 ...