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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.
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
A party of yachting jet-setters visit French Saigon, where they meet lovely Manon deVargnes, a second-class citizen not allowed to leave the country due to her part-Oriental ancestry.
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 initially sees ...
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- Robert Taylor
- Jack Conway
An American playboy in Saigon has to fight to get his Eurasian wife out of the country.
- Jack Conway, Leslie Fenton, Al Shenberg
- Robert Taylor
Lady of the Tropics is a 1939 American drama film directed by Jack Conway, starring Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, and Joseph Schildkraut. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
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