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. Read more:A lifetime love ...

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 ...

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 ...

Merle Oberon was a popular actress who was once nominated for an Oscar. But a fact that she hid from the public threatened to ...

British actor Merle Oberon’s greatest role might have been played off-camera. She kept her biracial heritage a secret so that ...

This is excerpted from the book Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star, by Mayukh Sen. Copyright © 2025 by the author and reprinted with ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. 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 ...

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 ...