Queenie Author:Michael Korda Beautiful, mysterious, intelligent Queenie cajoles her uncle with whom she lives in her mother's boardinghouse into 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 ... more »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.''« less