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 ...

Merle Oberon. Born Sándor László Kellner, Alexander Korda barged his way into British filmdom, becoming a producer, and he understood why a beautiful young woman would not want to be typed as an ...

The chroniclers of classic-era Hollywood have never quite known what to do with Merle ... he uses Oberon to illustrate the cruelty of a culture that demands women remain forever young yet punishes ...