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Queenie (1987)

Sun, 03/07/2010 - 1:03pm -- eddien
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Larry Peerce

Starring: Mia Sara, Joss Ackland, Martin Balsam, Claire Bloom, Gary Cady, Kate Emma Davies. Starmaker Entertainment, 1987.

In this fictionalized account of the true story of Merle Oberon, Mia Sara plays Queenie, the half-Indian woman who rises from obscurity to the heights of acting fame, all the while hiding the non-white part of her heritage. Based on the novel Queenie by Michael Korda (whose uncle, the British film director and producer Alexander Korda, was once married to Oberon).