“Some recordkeepers consider Merle Oberon (1936, The Dark Angel ... She would star opposite Gary Cooper, romance Clark Gable, and butt heads with Marlene Dietrich, who called her “that ...

This is excerpted from the book Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star, by Mayukh Sen. Copyright © 2025 by the author and reprinted with ...