![]() ![]() Running from him, he trips and falls over a balcony to his death. At one point, when her musician brother is fired from his country club job, she goes to Sir Burton Ramsey, who owns the club, to beg for his job back. At the same time, her exotic beauty attracted male attention. ![]() She suffered from bullying by students at the school she attended because of her mixed ethnicity. ![]() It's the story of an Anglo-Indian young girl, Queenie Kelly, living in India when it was under British rule. "Queenie" is based on the roman a clef by her nephew, Michael Korda, and it's pure fiction except for a few items. Unfortunately, she was born at the wrong time to take advantage of her beauty as an older woman or to be truthful about her real background. Merle Oberon was a glamorous film star, one of the first, I believe, to go on record about the wonders of plastic surgery. ![]()
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