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Oscars recognizing talent, overlooking skin colour and racial origins
The 97th Academy Awards ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 2 ...
Why Merle Oberon, ‘Hollywood’s first South Asian star,’ kept her race a secret
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 ...
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Oscars 2025: Full List of Winners and What They Said After Winning the Prestigious Academy Award
Sean Baker's "Anora" sweeps with five Oscars at the 97th Academy Awards, see every winner in our complete list!
‘Love, Queenie’ Review: Merle Oberon’s Screen Secret
A Hollywood beauty whose celebrated roles included Anne Boleyn, Merle Oberon kept her South Asian origins a secret from the ...
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Why Merle Oberon, 'Hollywood's first South Asian star,' kept her race a secret
He had wanted his wife, Vivien Leigh, to get the part ... 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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Naked, sex-crazed, and screaming obscenities: The true tragedy of Gone With The Wind star's madness revealed
‘Oh, the bliss of not having to go mad, commit suicide, or contemplate murder,’ Vivien Leigh trilled as she disembarked a flight in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1953. The Gone With The Wind star ...