{"id":562800,"date":"2023-03-12T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hollywood-flashback-merle-oberon-blazed-a-trail-in-secret\/"},"modified":"2023-03-12T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T18:30:00","slug":"hollywood-flashback-merle-oberon-blazed-a-trail-in-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hollywood-flashback-merle-oberon-blazed-a-trail-in-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hollywood Flashback: Merle Oberon Blazed a Trail in Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36511e0829e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36511e0829e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hollywood-flashback-merle-oberon-blazed-a-trail-in-secret\/#Hollywood_Flashback_Merle_Oberon_Blazed_a_Trail_in_Secret\" >Hollywood Flashback: Merle Oberon Blazed a Trail in Secret<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hollywood_Flashback_Merle_Oberon_Blazed_a_Trail_in_Secret\"><\/span>Hollywood Flashback: Merle Oberon Blazed a Trail in Secret<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    If <em>Everything Everywhere All at Once<\/em>\u2018s Michelle Yeoh wins the best actress Oscar on March 12, she will become the first Asian to do so. But she\u2019s not the first to be nominated: Merle Oberon preceded Yeoh 87 years ago \u2014 though no one knew it at the time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The star of 1935\u2019s <em>The Dark Angel<\/em>, for which she was nominated, kept her Indian heritage hidden her entire life. Born in Bombay to a Sri Lankan-Maori mother and white father, Oberon grew up in poverty in Calcutta. When she was 17, she moved to England to pursue acting; fearing backlash from a racist entertainment industry, she claimed she was born in Tasmania and that her birth certificate was lost in a fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    She broke out playing Anne Boleyn in director Alexander Korda\u2019s <em>The Private Life of Henry VIII <\/em>in 1933, which led to her being cast in Sidney Franklin\u2019s World War I drama <em>The Dark Angel<\/em>, produced by Samuel Goldwyn. <em>THR<\/em>\u2018s review said, \u201cAudiences will see a gloriously new, vibrant Merle Oberon, whose sensitive performance places her high in the cinema roster.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    While the 1936 Oscar went to <em>Dangerous<\/em>\u2018 Bette Davis, Oberon\u2019s career flourished, with starring roles opposite Laurence Olivier in 1939\u2019s <em>Wuthering Heights<\/em> and Marlon Brando in 1954\u2019s <em>D\u00e9sir\u00e9e<\/em>. In 1983, four years after she died from a stroke at 68, her ethnicity was revealed in Charles Higham and Roy Moseley\u2019s biography <em>Merle<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cFew could ever compare with [her], either as a timeless beauty or as a member of Hollywood\u2019s royalty,\u201d wrote <em>THR<\/em>\u2018s Robert Osborne in a tribute on Nov. 26, 1979. \u201cShe was, in a word, class.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1000px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((389\/1000)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/9endpg_oberon-tearsheet_EMBED.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"tearsheet from a 1935 issue of The Hollywood Reporter\" srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"389\" width=\"1000\" decoding=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>This story first <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared in the March 8 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.hollywoodreporter.com\/sub\/?p=THR&amp;f=saleb_2&amp;s=IH2205THRS\">Click here to subscribe<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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