Her first great love is cameraman Lucien Chambrun, who fashions her image in magazines and in the screen-test for Hungarian/British movie-king David Konig. She does at last start climbing toward success, as a nightclub ""exotic"" and when Morgan threatens to ruin things with his dark-skinned presence, she accidentally kills him-a secret which some show-biz slimies will use to blackmail Queenie over the years that follow.
But Depression-era London is a grim disappointment for Queenie, especially when Uncle M. (Oberon was briefly the wife of Korda's famous uncle Alexander.) As in the shoddy Oberon bio by Higham & Moseley (1983), the Queenie here is forever haunted by her semi-secret Anglo-Indian heritage: she grows up in Calcutta, enchants white men with her light-skinned teenage beauty, is sneered at as a ""bloody little chee-chee""-and flees at last to England with her incestuously smitten Uncle Morgan after they conspire to steal a diamond bracelet from Morgan's nasty white mistress. When we do, we depend on our loyal, helpful readers to point out how we can do better.The career, from the late Twenties to the early Forties, of film-star Dawn Avalon, nâe Queenie Kelley-based, with unimaginative tackiness and coyly convoluted murkiness, on the life of Merle Oberon, nâe Queenie O'Brien. However, despite our best efforts, we sometimes miss the mark. Our editors are instructed to fact check thoroughly, including finding at least three references for each fact.
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