Lady of the Tropics

Lady of the Tropics
Theatrical Film Poster
Directed by	Jack Conway
Produced by	Sam Zimbalist
Written by	Ben Hecht
Starring	Robert Taylor Hedy Lamarr Joseph Schildkraut Gloria Franklin
Music by	Franz Waxman
Cinematography	George J. Folsey Norbert Brodine
Edited by	Elmo Veron
Production company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	August 11, 1939 (1939-08-11)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$913,000^[1]
Box office	$1,533,000^[1]

Lady of the Tropics is a 1939 American drama film directed by Jack Conway and starring Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr and Joseph Schildkraut. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.

Plot summary

While visiting French Indochina on his yacht, a wealthy American falls in love with a beautiful local woman of mixed race background he meets in Saigon.

Main cast

Cropped screenshot of Hedy Lamarr from the trailer for the film Lady of the Tropics (1939).

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 Zimbalist 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 2 3 The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lady of the Tropics.

Lady of the Tropics at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Jack Conway

The Penitentes (1915)
Her Decision (1918)
You Can't Believe Everything (1918)
The Servant in the House (1921)
Across the Dead-Line (1922)
Step on It! (1922)
The Prisoner (1923)
Lucretia Lombard (1923)
The Only Thing (1925)
Soul Mates (1925)
Brown of Harvard (1926)
The Understanding Heart (1927)
Twelve Miles Out (1927)
Bringing Up Father (1928)
The Smart Set (1928)
While the City Sleeps (1928)
Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928)
Our Modern Maidens (1929)
Untamed (1929)
They Learned About Women (1930)
The Unholy Three (1930)
New Moon (1930)
The Easiest Way (1931)
Just a Gigolo (1931)
But the Flesh Is Weak (1932)
Red-Headed Woman (1932)
Hell Below (1933)
Viva Villa! (1934)
The Girl from Missouri (1934)
The Gay Bride (1934)
One New York Night (1935)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Libeled Lady (1936)
Saratoga (1937)
A Yank at Oxford (1938)
Too Hot to Handle (1938)
Lady of the Tropics (1939)
Boom Town (1940)
Love Crazy (1941)
Honky Tonk (1941)
Crossroads (1942)
Assignment in Brittany (1943)
Dragon Seed (1944)
High Barbaree (1947)
The Hucksters (1947)
Julia Misbehaves (1948)

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