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Lady of the Tropics [Videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn Mayer

By:

Conway, Jack, (, 1887-1952)

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Material type: Film

FilmPublication details: Culver City, California : Metro-Goldwyn Mayer , 1939Description: 1 DVD (92 min.) : black-and-white ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s):

DDC classification:

DVD 791.43 CON

Production credits:

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: 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).3Abstract: 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

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Multimedia	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	DVD 791.43 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		016288

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

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