Love, Queenie : Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star
by
Mayukh Sen
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1324123524
ISBN-13
9781324123521
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Imprint
WW Norton & Co
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 21st, 2026
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
274 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 21.00 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Individual actors & performersFilms, cinemaIndividual actors and performersFilms, cinemaBiography: arts & entertainmentBiography: arts and entertainmentGender studies: women and girlsEthnic studies / EthnicityEthnic groups and multicultural studiesGender studies: womenEthnic minorities & multicultural studiesBlack & Asian studies
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A beautiful reclamation of a pioneering South Asian actress captures her glittering, complicated life and lasting impact on Hollywood
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 “passed” for white, very few people knew it. In Love, Queenie, Mayukh Sen draws on family interviews and previously untapped archival research to animate the Wuthering Heights star’s hard-won journey to fame. From an upbringing in poverty, she rose to the highest echelons of the film-world elite during Hollywood’s racially exclusionary Golden Age. Love, Queenie empathetically captures one woman’s story while illuminating truths on race, gender and power that still resonate today.
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