Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Golden Age film star Merle Oberon comes alive in a new biography, sparked in part by the recent news that she was half Asian, a ...

When Michelle Yeoh's nomination for Best Actress at the Oscars was announced on Tuesday, some outlets highlighted that she was the first Asian woman to do so. Other platforms, including NextShark, ...

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 ...

The Academy Awards always bring with them a series of firsts. First Black man to win for best costume design (Paul Tazewell). First openly trans person to be nominated for an Oscar (Karla Sofía Gascón ...

Queenie Thompson grew up poor at Bombay, now Mumbai, with a South Asian mother who had been raped by a white man and raised by her grandmother, who pretended to be her mother while Queenie’s mother ...

Michelle Yeoh, whose performance in the sci-fi drama “Everything Everywhere All at Once” has already garnered widespread acclaim, appeared to make history Tuesday as the first Asian woman to be ...

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 ...