Lady of the Tropics [Videorecording]
/ Metro-Goldwyn Mayer
- Culver City, California : Metro-Goldwyn Mayer , 1939
- 1 DVD (92 min.) : black-and-white ; 4 3/4 in.
Producer: Sam Zimbalist ; Director: Jack Conway; Leslie Fenton (uncredited) ; Screenplay: Ben Hecht Cinematography: George Folsey; Norbert Brodine (uncredited) ; Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons Music: Franz Waxman ; Film Editing: Elmo Veron Producer: Sam Zimbalist ; Director: Jack Conway; Leslie Fenton (uncredited) ; Screenplay: Ben Hecht Cinematography: George Folsey; Norbert Brodine (uncredited) ; Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons Music: Franz Waxman ; Film Editing: Elmo Veron
Cast: Robert Taylor (William 'Bill' Carey), Hedy Lamarr (Manon deVargnes Carey/Kira Kim), Joseph Schildkraut (Pierre Delaroch(e)), Gloria Franklin (Nina), Ernest Cossart (Father Antoine), Mary Taylor (Dolly Harrison), Charles Trowbridge (Alfred Z. Harrison).3
When destitute playboy Bill Carey arrives in Saigon on a yacht owned by Alfred Z. Harrison, an American millionaire whose daughter Dolly he plans to marry, he meets exotic half-caste Manon De Vargnes, falls violently in love and jumps ship. Manon, tortured by her status as an outcast, and denied a passport because of her mixed birth, dreams of going to Paris, and at first sees Bill as her ticket out of Saigon. She soon falls in love with the kind Bill, however, and agrees to give up a planned marriage with a rich Asian nobleman. Their romance incurs the wrath of Peter Delaroch, another wealthy man, who is also a half-caste who desires Manon for himself