When Michelle Yeoh's nomination for Best Actress at the Oscars was announced on Tuesday, some outlets highlighted that she was the first Asian woman to do so. Other platforms, including NextShark, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...