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Apr 15, 2022 · 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 ...
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Jul 28, 2017 · The biography Merle: A Biography of Merle Oberon exposed what seems to have been known by those in her inner circle: Oberon was Anglo-Indian. Her mother—or the woman believed to be her mother ...
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Mar 11, 2023 · Merle Oberon was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in "The Dark Angel" (1935). She was the first Asian actress to be nominated for an Oscar — but at the time ...
Jan 26, 2023 · As it turns out, there was one biracial actress of South Asian origin who was the first to be nominated for the category: Hollywood star Merle Oberon. Oberon, who was a renowned celebrity in the ...
Jan 27, 2023 · Oberon was born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson in 1911 in Mumbai (then Bombay), India, to a mother of mixed South Asian heritage and a White British father, according to The Washington Post.
Merle Oberon appeared in multiple films in 1934, and landed the lead role in an adaptation of The Scarlet Pimpernel—but behind the scenes, she hid a dark secret. While making the film, she had an affair with her co-star, the handsome British actor (and, depending on who you ask, secret agent) Leslie Howard.
