Lady of the Tropics

1939 film by Jack Conway

Lady of the Tropics is a 1939 American drama film directed by Jack Conway, starring Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, and Joseph Schildkraut.

Plot

While visiting French Indochina with his girlfriend and her family on her father's yacht, freeloading American playboy Bill Carey falls in love with Manon DeVargnes, a beautiful, local woman of mixed race background he meets in Saigon. Manon is also being romantically pursued by local businessman Pierre Delaroch. Bill eventually marries Manon. When Bill is unable to find employment in Saigon, Delaroch secretly arranges to have Bill employed by his company.

Cast

Cropped still of Hedy Lamarr from the trailer for the film.

• Robert Taylor as Bill Carey
• Hedy Lamarr as Manon DeVargnes
• Joseph Schildkraut as Pierre Delaroch
• Gloria Franklin as Nina
• Ernest Cossart as Father Antoine
• Mary Taylor as Dolly Harrison
• Charles Trowbridge as Alfred Z. Harrison
• Frederick Worlock as Colonel Demassey
• Paul Porcasi as Lamartine
• Marguerita Padula as Madame Kya
• Cecil Cunningham as Countess Berichi
• Natalie Moorhead as Mrs. Hazlitt

Reception

According to MGM records, the film made $1,042,000 in the US and Canada and $491,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $99,000.^[1]

Bibliography

• Barton, Ruth. Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film. University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
• Marchetti, Gina. Romance and the "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction. University of California Press, 1993.

References

1. The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

External links

• Lady of the Tropics at IMDb
• Lady of the Tropics at AllMovie
• Lady of the Tropics at the TCM Movie Database
• Lady of the Tropics at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films