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 ...

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

identifies with Oberon, and argues against blaming her for a life of practiced deceit, for denying her ethnic origins in a Hollywood that offered precious few roles for Asian actors other than the ...

Merle Oberon was born in Bombay, spent her adolescence in Calcutta, and became a Hollywood star in the 1930s and 1940s. But ...

First openly trans actor to be nominated for an Oscar (Karla Sofía Gascón). First Latvian film to win an Oscar (“Flow”). But one first that’s often overlooked is Merle Oberon’s.