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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 |
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Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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92 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $913,000 |
Box office | $1,533,000 |
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.
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.
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.