Lady of the Tropics (1939) on DVD

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CAN LOVERS HEDY LAMARR AND ROBERT TAYLOR ESCAPE THE SHADOW OF HER HALF-CASTE ORIGINS? 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; Powerful local businessman Pierre Delaroch (Joseph Schildkraut; improbably playing Eurasian) loves her; but his manipulative devotion to Manon carries a heavy price; The love American playboy Bill Carey (Taylor) has for the “inscrutable” beauty is absolute; but after he impetuously marries her; with his fortunes dwindling and Delaroch tightening his grip on Manon; it will prove insufficient to reverse her fate as “a lady without a passport” (invoking a future Lamarr title); As this was penned by master romanticist Ben Hecht (Wuthering Heights; Notorious) and shows off two of movie history’s most glamorous stars via Norbert Brodine’s lush Oscar-nominated cinematography; you may well be irretrievably seduced by Lady of the Tropics;