Did Gulshan Grover exploit young Katrina on the sets of Boom? - Page 4

Originally posted by: Joannna

Agree. The whole country is fooled and Anyway, why change the story after so long.

To achieve the success she has as a foreigner in India! 👏🏼There needs to be a biopic on her.

She and Merle Oberon would have gotten along well. Only Merle's story was the opposite, an Indian passing off as white.

Originally posted by: RaniPreityAish

She and Merle Oberon would have gotten along well. Only Merle's story was the opposite, an Indian passing off as white.

who is she? 🤔

Originally posted by: ColorfulRain

who is she? 🤔

https://thephoenixnewspaper.com/india-celebrating-forgotten-icon-merle-oberon

Famous actress from the 1930s-1970s who starred in Hollywood and was a big star. Best known for Wuthering Heights with Laurence Olivier (she was such a big star then that her name was billed before him). After her death, her first husband's nephew revealed her tragic backstory.

She was of Indian/Sri Lankan and Maori ancestry. To make a career in Hollywood she pretended that her exotic looks were because she was Tasmanian (Errol Flynn really was Tasmanian and knew she was lying but never outed her). Her mother she passed off as her maid because she looked too Indian. Later on, Merle learned the shocking truth that her mother was really her grandmother. Her real mother was who she thought was her older sister.

First husband was Alexander Korda, one of Britain's top producers who put Merle in all his movies. They were super rich so Merle is still known for having the most expensive jewelry collection. Many of these jewels she wore in her films as seen below.

Originally posted by: RaniPreityAish

https://thephoenixnewspaper.com/india-celebrating-forgotten-icon-merle-oberon

Famous actress from the 1930s-1970s who starred in Hollywood and was a big star. Best known for Wuthering Heights with Laurence Olivier (she was such a big star then that her name was billed before him). After her death, her first husband's nephew revealed her tragic backstory.

She was of Indian/Sri Lankan and Maori ancestry. To make a career in Hollywood she pretended that her exotic looks were because she was Tasmanian (Errol Flynn really was Tasmanian and knew she was lying but never outed her). Her mother she passed off as her maid because she looked too Indian. Later on, Merle learned the shocking truth that her mother was really her grandmother. Her real mother was who she thought was her older sister.

First husband was Alexander Korda, one of Britain's top producers who put Merle in all his movies. They were super rich so Merle is still known for having the most expensive jewelry collection. Many of these jewels she wore in her films as seen below.

Damn very intriguing story

Originally posted by: RaniPreityAish

https://thephoenixnewspaper.com/india-celebrating-forgotten-icon-merle-oberon

Famous actress from the 1930s-1970s who starred in Hollywood and was a big star. Best known for Wuthering Heights with Laurence Olivier (she was such a big star then that her name was billed before him). After her death, her first husband's nephew revealed her tragic backstory.

She was of Indian/Sri Lankan and Maori ancestry. To make a career in Hollywood she pretended that her exotic looks were because she was Tasmanian (Errol Flynn really was Tasmanian and knew she was lying but never outed her). Her mother she passed off as her maid because she looked too Indian. Later on, Merle learned the shocking truth that her mother was really her grandmother. Her real mother was who she thought was her older sister.

First husband was Alexander Korda, one of Britain's top producers who put Merle in all his movies. They were super rich so Merle is still known for having the most expensive jewelry collection. Many of these jewels she wore in her films as seen below.

wow how famous was she despite her questionable heritage? 😲

I have never heard of that actress. That's interesting. There is an old Hollywood actress who is black or biracial and she could pass off as white and I believe she did in some of her films. The story goes, that she would even go to white only areas to get food and other goods for her family. This of course happened during America's segregation.

Originally posted by: cherry_fan

wow how famous was she despite her questionable heritage? 😲

Very famous especially in England as she was British. As I said, her Wuthering Heights is considered a classic.

Her breakthrough debut was in The Private Life of Henry VIII which was a British blockbuster. She's only in the beginning but she got excellent reviews for playing Anne Boleyn before her execution. This launched her as a British star who came to Hollywood. She was nominated for an Oscar for The Dark Angel and this makes her the first Asian woman nominated for Best Actress.

She starred alongside Gary Cooper, Laurence Olivier, Fredric March, Marlon Brando, and Jean Simmons. She played Empress Josephine to Brando's Napoleon. Unlike the recent movie, they were accurate in casting an older actress for Josephine.

One of her best roles was playing the real life author George Sand. Sand was a woman who had to adopt a male name to be taken seriously as an author and dressed like a man as well. Ironically enough the movie has her mostly dressed in glamorous gowns and jewels.

She had multiple husband as all the great actresses had back then. Her last husband was decades younger than her and she met him during her last film, a romance between an older woman and a young gigolo. She dumped her current husband at the time to marry this actor (he's infamous for shacking up with aging actresses because after Merle died a few years later, he hooked up with Audrey Hepburn and later Leslie Caron when Audrey died). In fact, Merle's character in that movie was more or less an older version of Geet from Jab We Met but a Geet who never found love and thus never grew up and was damaged by the trauma of heartbreak.

Her issue was that because of her great beauty, she was considered more star than actress. Also Vivien Leigh (from Gone with the Wind) eclipsed her in popularity. She also suffered a car accident which left her facially scarred. One of her husbands had to design a special camera with lighting that would hide her scars onscreen. She also had to wear a lot of makeup to look fairer and not so dark to hide her racial identity so the makeup further scarred her. It's said that during WWII, she encountered a soldier who was racially scarred from battle and knowing how he felt, she slept with him to restore his confidence.

Originally posted by: greenletters

I have never heard of that actress. That's interesting. There is an old Hollywood actress who is black or biracial and she could pass off as white and I believe she did in some of her films. The story goes, that she would even go to white only areas to get food and other goods for her family. This of course happened during America's segregation.

Fredi Washington from Imitation of Life? She passed as white but she refused to hide her identity so she didn't have much of a career. There are rumors that Ava Gardner was partially black or Native American. Joseph Cotten was also rumored to have black ancestry.

Originally posted by: RaniPreityAish

Very famous especially in England as she was British. As I said, her Wuthering Heights is considered a classic.

Her breakthrough debut was in The Private Life of Henry VIII which was a British blockbuster. She's only in the beginning but she got excellent reviews for playing Anne Boleyn before her execution. This launched her as a British star who came to Hollywood. She was nominated for an Oscar for The Dark Angel and this makes her the first Asian woman nominated for Best Actress.

She starred alongside Gary Cooper, Laurence Olivier, Fredric March, Marlon Brando, and Jean Simmons. She played Empress Josephine to Brando's Napoleon. Unlike the recent movie, they were accurate in casting an older actress for Josephine.

One of her best roles was playing the real life author George Sand. Sand was a woman who had to adopt a male name to be taken seriously as an author and dressed like a man as well. Ironically enough the movie has her mostly dressed in glamorous gowns and jewels.

She had multiple husband as all the great actresses had back then. Her last husband was decades younger than her and she met him during her last film, a romance between an older woman and a young gigolo. She dumped her current husband at the time to marry this actor (he's infamous for shacking up with aging actresses because after Merle died a few years later, he hooked up with Audrey Hepburn and later Leslie Caron when Audrey died). In fact, Merle's character in that movie was more or less an older version of Geet from Jab We Met but a Geet who never found love and thus never grew up and was damaged by the trauma of heartbreak.

Her issue was that because of her great beauty, she was considered more star than actress. Also Vivien Leigh (from Gone with the Wind) eclipsed her in popularity. She also suffered a car accident which left her facially scarred. One of her husbands had to design a special camera with lighting that would hide her scars onscreen. She also had to wear a lot of makeup to look fairer and not so dark to hide her racial identity so the makeup further scarred her. It's said that during WWII, she encountered a soldier who was racially scarred from battle and knowing how he felt, she slept with him to restore his confidence.

your knowledge of Old Hollywood is very very admirable and impressive 👍