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 ...

‘Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star’ By Mayukh Sen W.W. Norton, 314 Pages Queenie Thompson grew up poor at Bombay, now Mumbai, with a South Asian mother who had been raped ...

Anglo-Indian Film Star Merle Oberon was actually born in Bombay in 1911 as Estelle Merle O’Brien Thompson; the first Asian to be nominated for Best Actress for 'The Dark Angel' (1935), Oberon's ...

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 ...

Merle Oberon was a British actress. She began her acting career in British cinema in the early 1930s, with a breakout role in The Private Life of Henry VIII.Wikipedia Mayukh Sen was just a high ...