Leigh was probably Anglo-Indian, as in let's say,
Anglo-Argentinian - there are 100,000 of them in
Argentina, full blooded Anglos who were born there.
Oberon was Eurasian: her mother could not pass for
white, so she told her friends she was her maid, the
only way to survive in 1950 America.
To return to the thread about Humperdinck and the Indian claim (no, indeed,
'aapro' Zubin would not qualify as being a Goenkar, not even if he owned a
sumptuous mansion in Arpora). Two names from the talkies are what came to mind
- Vivian Leigh and Merle Oberon. Leigh ('Gone With The Wind' and
