Merle Oberon (born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson; 19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was a British actress of Anglo-Indian origin. Her career spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s, and she was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1932 Hungarian-born Cinema Producer Alexander Korda got his newly organized London Film Productions off to a so-so start with a film called Wedding Rehearsal. A tyro actress named Merle Oberon was ...

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 ...