Merle Oberon, who played Cathy in 1939’s Wuthering Heights, kept her Asian heritage hidden for decades from Hollywood.

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Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon played Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw in the 1939 movie, but now, it's Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi's turn ...

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 for ...

To stand even a chance at enjoying Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights,” you must let it wash over you. It’s all designed to sit slickly on the surface, never going more than skin deep.

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Dr Uther Charlton-Stevens, author of Anglo-India and the End of Empire (Hurst Publishers, UK, Oxford University Press, USA, 2022) with Merle Oberon in her breakout role as Anne Boleyn in The Private ...

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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. By Hilton Dresden Associate Awards ...

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 seem an ...