Queenie

Queenie

Queenie Kelley, a half-caste Indian girl from Calcutta, whose past is her most dangerous secret, rises to the apex of Hollywood as the glamorous Dawn Avalon From Publishers Weekly Beautiful, mysterious, intelligent Queenie cajoles her unclewith whom she lives in her mother's boardinghouseinto stealing a bracelet so valuable it pays her way from India to London. Once there, she capitalizes on her looks, becomes a model, a Hollywood movie star; nonetheless her life is riddled with adversity, and her beauty repeatedly saves her. PW commented: "Queenie remains . . . however, only a portrait who never comes to life, despite the fact that she is a thinly disguised stand-in for Merle Oberon, who was married to Korda's uncle." Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.