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Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star - Mayukh Sen
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- ISBN-13
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
1324050810
ISBN-13
9781324050810
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15067511765
Product Key Features
Book Title
Love, Queenie : Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Rich & Famous, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publication Year
2025
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
17.8 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
A deeply sympathetic portrait of one of Hollywood's most misunderstood figures. Love, Queenie is not only a love letter to Merle Oberon's underappreciated filmography, but also an unflinching examination of how the era's racial codes constricted her life--on and off the screen., Mr. Sen carefully corrects Charles Higham's fanciful biography and filmographies that mistakenly attribute certain roles to Oberon....One of the most excruciating scenes in this powerful biography is Oberon's late in life visit to Tasmania, still unable to admit the fiction of her birth there., Love, Queenie is a deeply drawn portrait of the fascinating screen star Merle Oberon. Told with empathy and rigor, it's also a grand tour of Hollywood's opulence and racism through the decades. A compelling story of one woman's struggle to make a life for herself against the odds. I could not put this book down., Sen's thorough research, graceful prose, and nuanced analyses of the systems of oppression framing Oberon's life offer a layered and engrossing portrait of a woman who skyrocketed to well-earned stardom while enduring the trauma of hiding her race. An extraordinary biography of an extraordinary South Asian woman., Love, Queenie introduced me to a star whose life story I now find extraordinary. More, this entrancing book left me reflecting on the society which compelled such a star to hide who she was all her life. An invaluable biography rich with surprises, heartbreak, and the complicated fulfillment of dreams., Biographer Mayukh Sen...uses a compassionate lens....It could be tempting to dismiss Oberon as a self-absorbed, money-driven diva who acquired and shed lovers and husbands like outgrown fashions. But Sen elegantly and thoroughly performs a work of historical recovery for a subject whose uniqueness has never been fully understood or appreciated., Sen anchors Oberon's complicated story and spotty filmography within the racism and classism of the early twentieth century, crediting her as a pioneer for the growing cadre of South Asian actors only now breaking through filmdom's capricious prejudices. Sen finally gives this oft-overlooked actor her due., The chroniclers of classic-era Hollywood have never quite known what to do with Merle Oberon....So it takes chutzpah and sympathy to write a biography about Oberon, but Mayukh Sen has both., Merle Oberon never got to tell the true story of her life. Mayukh Sen finally has, and it rivals that of any character she played on the screen. I couldn't put this book down., 'What does America want from its stars when they come from the margins?' Sen asks in this extraordinary account of the hardship and rampant racism Oberon, a movie star who spent her entire career hiding her South Asian roots, faced during Hollywood's golden age., [A] scrupulous and moving biography....Oberon's elan embosses Sen's easy and engaging prose....Thanks to Sen's insightful, compassionate, and historically-attuned narrative skill, the significance of Oberon's signature is legible beyond the page., The saga of Merle Oberon is one of Hollywood's most extraordinary tales--one that hid in plain sight during her lifetime but has, at long last, found the right teller in Mayukh Sen, whose wonderful book is written with compassion, clear eyes, and panache., Oberon's story is far richer than any of her screen roles....The book is a fascinating portrait of a woman of ambition as well as a look at Hollywood's color barriers., Merle Oberon, one of Hollywood's first South Asian movie stars, gets her due in this engrossing biography, which masterfully explores Oberon's painful upbringing, complicated racial identity, and much more., Her story was alluring enough to become the subject of biographies, novel and television mini-series. Yet nothing fully captured her drive, spirit and audacity. But now a farm-fresh biography, Love, Queenie by Mayukh Sen, locates, contextualises and explains Merle Oberon like none before...Sen guides us through every bend of her life, seeing her with a sympathetic lens., Throughout every up and down of Oberon's career, Sen pays her--and his readers--the implicit compliment of not turning his subject into a saint....Love, Queenie is earnestly affectionate but pulls none of these punches, which makes it both bracing and refreshing reading, the year's first genuinely worthwhile movie star biography. All previous studies of this troubled, fascinating figure can be readily retired., The saga of Merle Oberon is one of Hollywood's most extraordinary tales--one that has, at long last, found the right teller in Mayukh Sen, whose wonderful book is written with compassion, clear eyes, and panache., A deeply drawn portrait of the fascinating screen star Merle Oberon. Told with empathy and rigor, it's also a grand tour of Hollywood's opulence and racism through the decades. A compelling story of one woman's struggle to make a life for herself against the odds. I could not put this book down., With fluid pacing, Sen traces the 'culture of exclusion' of the times that hobbled and channeled Oberon's life and career....Sen's story shines throughout. The narrative is woven with surgical precision, never flaunting the obvious depth of its research., In Love, Queenie, writer Mayukh Sen cheerfully reclaims her story, narrating it with sensitivity and verve....[T]he book is written as if living alongside Oberon during her lifetime, giving emotional heft to her sometimes difficult choices., This entrancing book left me reflecting on the society that compelled such a star to hide who she was all her life. An invaluable biography rich with surprises, heartbreak, and the complicated fulfillment of dreams., Film critic Sen delivers a moving biography of Merle Oberon....[H]e emphasizes the stirring determination she showed in scrapping her way to the film industry's upper echelon. It's a poignant account of the sacrifices that enabled an extraordinary career., Mayukh Sen has written a deeply sympathetic portrait of one of Hollywood's most misunderstood figures. Love, Queenie is not only a love letter to Merle Oberon's under appreciated filmography, but also an unflinching examination of how the era's racial codes constricted her life, on and off the screen., Through Mayukh Sen's remarkable book, I discovered a brilliant, ambitious actress who could achieve visibility only by making her past invisible. After reading Love, Queenie, I hold two opposing thoughts in my mind: 'Look how far we've come,' and 'Not much has changed.'
Dewey Decimal
791.43028092
Synopsis
"Extraordinary."--The New York Times Book Review A Kirkus and The Millions Most Anticipated Book A beautiful reclamation of a pioneering South Asian actress captures her glittering, complicated life and lasting impact on Hollywood., Merle Oberon made history when she was announced as a nominee for the Best Actress Oscar in 1936. Hers was a face that "launched a thousand ships," a so-called exotic beauty who the camera loved and fans adored. Her nomination for The Dark Angel marked the first time the Academy recognized a performer of color. Almost ninety years before actress Michelle Yeoh would triumph in the same category, Oberon, born to a South Asian mother and white father in India, broke through a racial barrier--but no one knew it. Oberon was "passing" for white. In the first biography of Oberon (1911-1979) in more than forty years, Mayukh Sen draws on family interviews and heretofore untapped archival material to capture the exceptional life of an oft-forgotten talent. Born into poverty, Queenie Thompson dreamt of big-screen stardom. By sheer force of will, she immigrated to London in her teens and met film mogul Alexander Korda, who christened her "Merle Oberon" and invented the story that she was born to European parents in Tasmania. Her new identity was her ticket into Hollywood. When she was only in her twenties, Oberon dazzled as Cathy in Wuthering Heights opposite Laurence Olivier. Against the backdrop of Hollywood's racially exclusionary Golden Age and the United States's hostile immigration policy towards South Asians in the twentieth century, Oberon rose to the highest echelons of the film-world elite, all while keeping a secret that could have destroyed her career. Tracing Oberon's story from her Indian roots to her final days surrounded by wealth and glamor, Sen questions the demands placed on stars in life and death. His compassionate, compelling chronicle illuminates troubling truths on race, gender, and power that still resonate today., "Extraordinary."--The New York Times Book Review A Kirkus and The Millions Most Anticipated Book One of Town & Country's Best Books of Spring 2025 One of Bookpage's 7 books to read this Women's History Month A beautiful reclamation of a pioneering South Asian actress captures her glittering, complicated life and lasting impact on Hollywood., Merle Oberon made history when she was announced as a nominee for the Best Actress Oscar in 1936. Hers was a face that "launched a thousand ships," a so-called exotic beauty who the camera loved and fans adored. Her nomination for The Dark Angel marked the first time the Academy recognized a performer of color. Almost ninety years before actress Michelle Yeoh would triumph in the same category, Oberon, born to a South Asian mother and white father in India, broke through a racial barrier-but no one knew it. Oberon was "passing" for white. In the first biography of Oberon (1911-1979) in more than forty years, Mayukh Sen draws on family interviews and heretofore untapped archival material to capture the exceptional life of an oft-forgotten talent. Born into poverty, Queenie Thompson dreamt of big-screen stardom. By sheer force of will, she immigrated to London in her teens and met film mogul Alexander Korda, who christened her "Merle Oberon" and invented the story that she was born to European parents in Tasmania. Her new identity was her ticket into Hollywood. When she was only in her twenties, Oberon dazzled as Cathy in Wuthering Heights opposite Laurence Olivier. Against the backdrop of Hollywood's racially exclusionary Golden Age and the United States's hostile immigration policy towards South Asians in the twentieth century, Oberon rose to the highest echelons of the film-world elite, all while keeping a secret that could have destroyed her career. Tracing Oberon's story from her Indian roots to her final days surrounded by wealth and glamor, Sen questions the demands placed on stars in life and death. His compassionate, compelling chronicle illuminates troubling truths on race, gender, and power that still resonate today.
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