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Lady of the Tropics is a 1939 American drama film directed by Jack Conway, starring Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, and Joseph Schildkraut. Plot [ edit ] 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 ...
Lady of the Tropics: Directed by Jack Conway, Leslie Fenton. With Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Franklin. Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
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- Drama
- Jack Conway, Leslie Fenton
- 1939-08-11
Lamarr's Hollywood honeymoon ended one film later, with Lady of the Tropics (1939). Far from seeming awash in the sultriness promised by its title, it's a half-hearted manufacture, tepid in every way, except its costumes, lighting and ability of cinematographer George Folsey to create on a Culver City backlot the movies' idea of between-the ...
- Jack Conway, Leslie Fenton, Al Shenberg
- Robert Taylor
Lady of the Tropics. Biracial beauty Manon De Vargnes (Hedy Lamarr) wants to get out of Saigon, Vietnam, but because of her half-caste status, she finds it impossible to obtain a passport. She ...
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- Jack Conway
- Drama
- Robert Taylor
Hedy Lamarr (/ ˈ h ɛ d i /; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 [a] – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris.
Jan 24, 2019 · Taylor didn’t like the script to “Lady of the Tropics,” but took the role to help out newcomer Hedy Lamarr, as other top stars had done for him early in his career, according to the book “A Life of Barbara Stanwyck” by Victoria Wilson. When this film was released, the press said that Hedy Lamarr was even more beautiful than Robert Taylor.
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Feb 23, 2016 · Hedy Lamarr's next screen destination after her splashy Hollywood debut in Algiers was exotic Saigon, where she bewitches heartthrob Robert Taylor as alluring Manon DeVargnes, the half-caste whose mixed-race French/Vietnamese parentage is a perpetual barrier to her dream of relocating to Paris.
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