Golden Age film star Merle Oberon comes alive in a new biography, sparked in part by the 2023 news that she was half Asian, a secret she kept all of her life.

His instincts proved correct when reviews praised Oberon as a revelation. “Miss Oberon, abandoning the Javanese slant of the eyes for the occasion, plays with skill and feeling,” The New York Times ...

Crew members forced Merle to undergo skin-bleaching treatments in order to appear lighter on camera. The film came out in 1935, and the reviews were glowing. The following year, Oberon was ...

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“Miss Oberon, through most of her sequences ... the California beaches too much while shooting, buttering her brown skin. She could not fight what was in her blood. The studio made her go ...

“A diminutive 5 feet 2 inches tall, Miss Oberon was of an almost exotic beauty, with perfect skin, dark hair and a slight slant to her eyes that was further accentuated by makeup,” reads her ...

“A diminutive 5 feet 2 inches tall, Miss Oberon was of an almost exotic beauty, with perfect skin, dark hair and a slight slant to her eyes that was further accentuated by makeup,” reads her ...

Oberon won the lead role as Kitty, one corner of a love triangle in the saga set in World War I-era England. Goldwyn made "a concerted effort to align her with whiteness," Sen said. Crew members ...

The book tells how Oberon, who was born in India and whose ... snaggletooth that would jut out whenever she smiled, the bronze skin that reminded me of my own. It was her voice.

In L.A., Oberon enjoyed the sunny outdoors and tanned, getting much darker than her colleagues. Her dark skin was a problem at work, sometimes causing filming delays. Directors and producers ...

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