![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'There are great differences between Queenie and Merle except in their basic characters and personalities. 'I used people I know or knew as starting points for most of the characters in the novel,' he said. His attitude suggests a smug disdain of provinces west of the Hudson River. Korda is a slightly built, bespectacled man of 51 with a mop of blond hair and a New Yorker's superiority complex. 'That makes it a good deal simpler,' said Korda on a tub-thumping trip to Hollywood to promote the book and advertise the fact it will become a five-hour miniseries for ABC-TV next year. Most of the thinly veiled real life people in the book, fortunately, are dead. ![]() But Korda reports, amazingly, the agent took no offense at his portrait in 'Queenie.' Such stars as Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh and movie moguls David Selznick and Harry Cohn are easily recognized too.Įven Irving 'Swifty' Lazar, the short, bald, abrasive agent is clearly delineated, unflatteringly. The late Alexander Korda, the author's famed film producer-director uncle, also is plainly etched in the novel, and none too flatteringly. Not only does Korda reveal his aunt's roots, he also makes Queenie the victim of incest, which she avenges by murdering her uncle.ĭuring her lifetime Oberon never played as venal a role as that in which Korda casts her. ![]()
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