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Why Merle Oberon, 'Hollywood's first South Asian star,' kept her race a secret
Golden Age film star Merle Oberon comes alive in a breezy new biography ... She married Korda and he showered her with jewels. They bought a luxurious home in Los Angeles. Sen shows us another part of ...
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A Hollywood Star With a Secret That Could Have Ended Her Career
Merle Oberon was a popular actress who was once nominated for an Oscar. But a fact that she hid from the public threatened to unspool her entire life’s work. Merle Oberon in the 1935 Oscar ...
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Why Merle Oberon, ‘Hollywood’s first South Asian star,’ kept her race a secret
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 ...