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La dame des tropiques

Titre original : Lady of the Tropics
  • 1939
  • Approved
  • 1h 32min
NOTE IMDb
6,1/10
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Hedy Lamarr, Robert Taylor, and Joseph Schildkraut in La dame des tropiques (1939)
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre languePlayboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.

  • Réalisation
    • Jack Conway
    • Leslie Fenton
  • Scénario
    • Ben Hecht
    • George Oppenheimer
    • Josef von Sternberg
  • Casting principal
    • Robert Taylor
    • Hedy Lamarr
    • Joseph Schildkraut
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  • NOTE IMDb
    6,1/10
    731
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    • Réalisation
      • Jack Conway
      • Leslie Fenton
    • Scénario
      • Ben Hecht
      • George Oppenheimer
      • Josef von Sternberg
    • Casting principal
      • Robert Taylor
      • Hedy Lamarr
      • Joseph Schildkraut
    • 26avis d'utilisateurs
    • 11avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
    • Récompenses
      • 1 victoire au total

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    Robert Taylor
    Robert Taylor
    • Bill Carey
    Hedy Lamarr
    Hedy Lamarr
    • Manon DeVargnes
    Joseph Schildkraut
    Joseph Schildkraut
    • Pierre Delaroch
    Gloria Franklin
    Gloria Franklin
    • Nina
    Ernest Cossart
    Ernest Cossart
    • Father Antoine
    Mary Taylor
    Mary Taylor
    • Dolly Harrison
    Charles Trowbridge
    Charles Trowbridge
    • Alfred Z. Harrison
    Frederick Worlock
    Frederick Worlock
    • Colonel Demassey
    Paul Porcasi
    Paul Porcasi
    • Lamartine
    Marguerita Padula
    • Madame Kya
    • (as Margaret Padula)
    Cecil Cunningham
    Cecil Cunningham
    • Countess Berichi
    Natalie Moorhead
    Natalie Moorhead
    • Mrs. Hazlitt
    Leon Belasco
    Leon Belasco
    • Assistant to Manager
    • (non crédité)
    Abner Biberman
    Abner Biberman
    • Wardrobe Buyer
    • (non crédité)
    Gino Corrado
    Gino Corrado
    • Waiter
    • (non crédité)
    Vernon Downing
    • Ship Passenger
    • (non crédité)
    Willie Fung
    Willie Fung
    • Ling
    • (non crédité)
    Charles Halton
    Charles Halton
    • Manager of Rubber Company
    • (non crédité)
    • Réalisation
      • Jack Conway
      • Leslie Fenton
    • Scénario
      • Ben Hecht
      • George Oppenheimer
      • Josef von Sternberg
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    Avis des utilisateurs26

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    6Doylenf

    Hedy's sultry beauty matched against Taylor's good looks...

    With a script by Ben Hecht, LADY OF THE TROPICS is a film that recalled another Hedy Lamarr film--at least the title does--called "A Lady Without Passport"--a wretched film she made in 1950. Here too, she's a lady without passport and that's what triggers the entire plot. But it must be said that the comparison between the two films ends with the title.

    This is strictly old-fashioned melodrama reeking of either "Manon Lescaut" or "Madame Butterfly", with Hedy as the ill-fated heroine who allows herself to be "used" by Joseph SCHILDKRAUT while hiding her indiscretions from her smitten American admirer (ROBERT TAYLOR), who meets her in French Indochina (Saigon) before WWII and immediately falls in love with her. When Schildkraut gets revenge by planting false evidence of his association with Lamarr to open Taylor's eyes to the truth, the consequences turn tragic.

    Hedy has never been more beautiful and gives a sensitive performance as Manon (yes, that's her name!), a "lady of the tropics" with a sultry beauty enhanced by her MGM transformation into a stunning star who is always ready for her close-ups. Attired in an equally stunning Adrian wardrobe, she's a glittering testament to the power of Golden Age films to give stars glamor with a capital "G". Taylor, attired in white linen suits and Panama hats must have made female hearts flutter as the romantic hero willing to sacrifice all for his yen for Manon.

    It's a better film than I expected. Joseph SCHILDKRAUT makes a perfect villain, the kind you like to hiss, with his Oriental make-up and oily manner oozing menace at every quiet inflection of his voice. The B&W photography of some artfully designed sets is soothing to the eye and so, of course, is the teaming of Lamarr and Taylor--two of the most photogenic stars on the MGM lot.

    The script by Ben Hecht helps sustain interest in the storyline, even if it does get a bit too weepy toward the end. Lamarr shows evidence that she could be a very sympathetic heroine if given half a chance.
    9umbraco-42719

    Vastly Underrated

    Truly I don't understand the poor reviews of this film.

    It's a melodramatic romance in the vein of "Camille" or "Waterloo Bridge." (Both of which also starred Robert Taylor). It is certainly no worse than those, and the overall theme is not that much different.

    Hedy Lamarr's role here is very subtly played. She lies and deceives because she doesn't want anyone to be hurt. That is key to understanding her character. Placed in an impossible situation, Manon tries her best to rise above it the only way she knows how. Lamarr captures this struggle magnificently. It's written on her face in so many scenes.

    Sometimes I've heard she is "wooden" in this role. Are you kidding? In her scenes with evil Delaroch, she masks her agony with a Mona Lisa smile, trying to reveal nothing. That is acting, folks. Sorry you don't recognize it. Perhaps it is because so many stars of the era regularly chewed the scenery, and in comparison, Lamarr's portrayal is too realistic. It's the only thing I can fathom.

    As for Robert Taylor, also a favorite of mine...I think he plays the American playboy perfectly. One of my favorite scenes is where he's trying to buy a "hat" for his heiress girlfriend early in the film. He supplies humor in just the right amounts, and his eventual adoration of Manon is well done, hauntingly.

    I have seen this movie probably more than any others of hers, and I never get tired of it.
    6lastliberal

    Eurasian beauty in a romantic tragedy

    I remember when I was living in Vietnam, I was told that Eurasian women were the most beautiful in the World. The French-Vietnamese women that I saw were indeed exquisite. Hedy Lamarr was perfectly caste as one of these women, and her performance in this film was so romantic that one would want to see it over and over.

    This fine film featured Oscar-nominated cinematography, a script by the great Ben Hecht (Wuthering Heights, Notorious, The Scoundrel, Underworld), and Robert Taylor as the leading man.

    The story is as old as time and you cannot fail to be moved by the tragedy.
    ivan-22

    No Miscegenation

    Was Ben Hecht a damnable racist, or does it merely seem so? The fact that this frankly racist film doesn't shock our sensibilities maybe due to its not being that much outside of the norm. Hollywood has been called leftist, but no miscegenation is allowed, not even after the war. And all participants in this charade pretend to have creative freedom, or to desire it. This film could well have been called "No Miscegenation!" at a time when someone else in Europe was crying "No Miscegenation!" Congratulations Hollywood!
    8rparisious

    Lamarr's Night of Nights

    Hedy Lamarr was not generally as fortunate in her scripts or her directors as most of the great leading ladies of her day.Yet this now almost forgotten film may ,in fact, be her most perfect vehicle. "Samson and Delilah" appears the only alternative possibility ;still the gentler less garish approach here serves to better accentuate Miss Lamarr's exquisite beauty and muted, perfectly timed, performance.

    The part of the half-caste Manon seems written for her (an excellent Ben Hecht script); the photography deserved its Oscar nomination and makes us ask for what do we need technicolor? Furthermore,Lamarr is ably seconded by then newcomer Gloria Franklin as another gentle victim of the Saigon love game.And can Miss Franklin handle a heartbreaking rhythm. Why did America fail to take this delicate chanteuse to its heart?

    The main flaw in this work,which otherwise would deserve a nine or ten rating, is the casting of an already hardening Robert Taylor as the enraptured playboy.It is patent,considering the obvious parallels with "Camille, why Taylor was hired. He even goes through some almost identical motions a second time in the death scene here. And that is exactly the problem.Taylor has left romanticism behind him by the time this film was shot. His best notes here are quiet desperation. Francis Lederer would have been great for the role(remember him with Louise Brooks?),but, under the Hollywood casting system ,there was no chance he could have gotten the part.

    Flawed as it is, it is flawless Lamarr.And as every romantic believes ,there must still be audiences of unknowing lovers out there who will want to see it again-and again.

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    • Anecdotes
      The American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940 states that this was Hedy Lamarr's last film under her MGM contract; it was her first. AFI also adds that Mary Taylor was signed to a long-term MGM contract as a result of her work in this picture; in fact, she would be seen in only four feature films in her entire career, and only one more of them, Les oubliés (1941) would be made at MGM.
    • Citations

      Bill Carey: Father... Father, help us.

      Father Antoine: My son, she goes where there is no east or west. And she will be judged by one who alone knows how great or how little were her sins.

    • Connexions
      Featured in From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
    • Bandes originales
      Each Time You Say Goodbye (I Die A Little)
      (1939)

      Music by Phil Ohman

      Lyrics Foster Carling

      Sung by Gloria Franklin (uncredited) (dubbed by Harriet Cruise (uncredited))

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    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 11 août 1939 (États-Unis)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langues
      • Anglais
      • Français
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Flor del trópico
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Cambodge(cambodia)
    • Société de production
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • Budget
      • 913 000 $US (estimé)
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    • Durée
      • 1h 32min(92 min)
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.37 : 1

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