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Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star

By (author) Mayukh Sen

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Merle Oberon attained Hollywood immortality with a nomination for a Best Leading Actress Oscar for her role in the 1935 film The Dark Angel. It was the first time a performer of colour had received an acting nomination at the Academy Awards but because Oberon concealed her South Asian identity throughout her lifetime and â€œpassedâ€ for white, very few people knew it. In Love, Queenie, the first biography in more than forty years of the India-born actress, Mayukh Sen draws on family interviews and previously untapped archival research to animate the Wuthering Heights starâ€™s hard-won journey to fame. From an upbringing in poverty, she rose to the highest echelons of the film-world elite during Hollywoodâ€™s racially exclusionary Golden Age. A major biography of an often-overlooked talent, Love, Queenie empathetically captures one womanâ€™s story while illuminating truths on race, gender and power that still resonate today.

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