At the start of 1935, a year before she would become the first performer of color and Asian actress to be nominated for an Academy Award, Merle Oberon feared her Hollywood career was over. It had ...

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, with her ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

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 ...