1. Merle Oberon | Silent Film Star, Hollywood Actress ... - Britannica
7 dagen geleden · British and American film actress who appeared in more than 30 motion pictures. Her most notable portrayal was that of the beautiful Cathy.
Merle Oberon was a British and American film actress who appeared in more than 30 motion pictures. Her most notable portrayal was that of the beautiful Cathy, who tormented and rejected Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) in the 1939 classic Wuthering Heights. The daughter of an Indian mother and a
2. Forgotten Hollywood: Merle Oberon and Her Lifelong Secret
5 feb 2023 · The two divorced in 1945 and Oberon had affairs with studio chief Joe Schenck and actors Rod Taylor and Robert Ryan before she married ...
One of the most glamorous stars of the 1930s and 40s in Hollywood, the exotic Merle Oberon had a secret, one she spent her lifetime protecting. Check it out ...
3. Merle Oberon: India's forgotten Hollywood star - BBC
15 apr 2022 · Oberon's first big break came from Sir Alexander Korda - a filmmaker she would later marry - who cast her as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of ...
Merle Oberon rose to stardom in the West while furtively hiding the truth of her past in India.
4. Merle Oberon | Filmfreak
De actrice is verschillende keren getrouwd geweest. Haar eerste man was filmproducent Alexander Korda die er mee voor zorgde dat ze de rol van Anna Boleyn kreeg ...
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5. Hollywood's own Dark Angel was an Indian Actress Playing the Biggest ...
7 dec 2022 · Merle's third marriage was once again a fleeting affair, and during the filming of her own film Interval, Merle finally met Robert Wolders, who ...
Merle Oberon on the cover of Hollywood Merle Oberon, the Hollywood actress who to this day remains the only Asian actress to be nominated for a Best Actress award at the Oscars, was born in Bombay, India in 1911. Merle however, would have you believe that she hailed from Tasmania, Australia and w
6. Merle Oberon | Making Britain - The Open University
In the early 1930s, she was discovered by the film producer Alexander Korda, whom she later married (they divorced in 1945), who cast her as Anne Boleyn in his ...
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7. All About Merle Oberon, the First Asian Best Actress Oscar Nominee
27 jan 2023 · Merle Oberon preceded Michelle Yeoh as the first Asian woman to be nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars, 87 years before Yeoh's nod.
Merle Oberon preceded Michelle Yeoh as the first Asian woman to be nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars, 87 years before Yeoh's nod
8. Adorable Story #29: Merle Oberon
2 sep 2023 · Merle Oberon was a glamorous actress of Hollywood's Golden Era, known for her beauty and elegance on screen.
How a girl from Calcutta entered Hollywood's "Big League"
9. Who Was Merle Oberon? - Roar Media Archive
29 jan 2023 · Who Was Merle Oberon? ... In 1935, Merle Oberon became the first Asian actress to be nominated for Best Actress Oscar — except, nobody in ...
See AlsoPheenbabyIn 1935, Merle Oberon became the first Asian actress to be nominated for Best Actress Oscar — except, nobody in Hollywood knew Oberon was Asian.
10. Merle Oberon: The Hollywood Star Who Was Born in Bombay and Kept ...
24 okt 2024 · One of Hollywood's most successful leading ladies in the early 20th century, Merle Oberon carried a lifelong secret—though born in Bombay ...
One of Hollywood's most successful leading ladies in the early 20th century, Merle Oberon carried a lifelong secret—though born in Bombay (now Mumbai), she told the world her birthplace was Tasmania, Australia. She kept her biracial identity a secret, having been born to an Anglo-Irish father and a mother who was part Sinhalese (Sri Lankan) and part Māori., People News - Times Now
11. The Exotic Starlet who hid her South Asian roots – Merle Oberon
21 nov 2022 · Merle Oberon, the British actress, was an American screen legend during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Her exotic beauty on the silver screen, raven-haired, ...
The secret a South Asian and Oscar nominated actress had to keep her entire career to make it in Hollywood.
12. The Curious Case of Merle Oberon - The Revolver Club
9 jul 2022 · The story goes, she rose through the ranks of Hollywood detached from her true identity and kept a well-guarded secret that she took with her to the grave.
Youthful, graceful, gorgeous, all in all, a golden-age Hollywood movie star of great beauty Merle Oberon ruled the screen and innumerable hearts at the time. However, the story goes, she rose through the ranks of Hollywood detached from her true identity and kept a well-guarded secret that she took with her to the grave. Best-known for playing the lead in the classic Wuthering Heights and Oscar-nominated role in The Dark Angel, Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson was an Anglo-Indian born in Bombay in 1911 to a British father and Eurasian Mother. But in Hollywood, Oberon and her backers had made concerted efforts to hide her origins and passed her off as a white person throughout her life. She spent her first 17 years of life in British India and eventually moved to Britain and then the United States to pursue her acting career. A Hungarian-British film director, Sir Alexander Korda - who Oberon later married - gave Merle her first break as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). Publicists for Korda reportedly had to invent a background story to explain her race. Tasmania became her birthplace as it was far aw7ay from the US and was considered British to the core at that time. Further, Oberon was passed off as an upper-class girl from Hobart, Tasmania who moved to India after her father died in a hunting accident. As she bagged more Hollywood films, the charade became harder to maintain, she never gave a shot without makeup. Though it may be reasonable to be...
13. 'She had to hide': the secret history of the first Asian woman nominated for ...
7 mrt 2023 · Born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson in what was then the British Indian city of Bombay, Oberon was determined to make the most of her innately ...
Merle Oberon, a pick for best actress in 1936, was born in Bombay and spent her career passing for white
14. Hollywood Flashback: Merle Oberon Blazed a Trail in Secret
12 mrt 2023 · When Merle Oberon earned an Oscar nomination for best actress in 1936, she became the first Asian to do so — though no one knew it at the ...
When the star of ‘The Dark Angel’ earned an Oscar nomination for best actress in 1936, she became the first Asian to do so — though no one knew it at the time.
15. Actress Merle Oberon's Hidden South Asian Heritage - Business Insider
11 mrt 2023 · Desperate to maintain her future in Hollywood, Merle Oberon invented the origin story of being from Tasmania, Australia, erasing her Indian ...
Desperate to maintain her future in Hollywood, Merle Oberon invented the origin story of being from Tasmania, Australia, erasing her Indian roots.
16. The Fascinating Old Hollywood Story That Inspired The Last Tycoon
28 jul 2017 · The character is based on Merle Oberon, a golden-age movie star who was known for her great beauty—and the similar secret she took with her to ...
Inside the sad saga of Merle Oberon, a gorgeous actress with a huge secret.
17. Hiding in Plain Sight - Film Comment
21 jun 2021 · Her stage name was Merle Oberon. “Here they tell fabulous stories about her, one of the most often repeated being that she is Eurasian with a ...
Out of the past: Merle Oberon endures in public memory because of the secrets she had to hide, but her work deserves reassessment
