Archive Talks: Love, Queenie: Revisiting Merle Oberon

“Dark Waters” (dir. André de Toth, 1944) on 35mm! 🎞

In person: Pre-screening talk by Mayukh Sen, author of "Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star.” Q&A after the screening moderated by film programmer Miriam Bale. Sen will sign copies of the book (provided by Larry Edmunds Bookshop) before the screening beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Film star Merle Oberon forged a unique Hollywood career that included an early Oscar nomination for her performance in “The Dark Angel” (1935) and masterful turns in such classics as William Wyler’s “These Three” (1936) and “Wuthering Heights” (1939), all while concealing her identity as an Anglo Indian woman born in Bombay (now Mumbai).

Identity is at the center of “Dark Waters” with Oberon’s desperate refugee finding safe harbor in the arms of distant relatives living on a Louisiana plantation where nothing and no one are what they seem. Moody and swirling with menace, André de Toth’s swampy noir showcases Oberon at the peak of her powers.

Free admission! Details: ucla.in/4f0aGK5

Special thanks to our community partner: UCLA Center for India and South Asia-CISA

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