for those who do not realize it the lady of the tropic be refer to be hedy lamarr who fall big time for visit playboy robert taylor in saigon . of course one look at hedy lamarr and his romantic goose be cook as well . but there be a forbidden love and sad to say the message in ben hecht screenplay be stick to your own kind . lady of the tropic be shoot while hedy lamarr be on hiatus from the ill fat i take this woman . louis b. mayer nor any of the other movie mogul believe in let their player sit idly by . so lady of the tropic become lamarr second film and her only pairing with that other screen beauty robert taylor . taylor play a very honorable character here or at least more honorable than most . he part of a visit party of tourist off a yacht that land in saigon right before world war ii start . a we well know vietnam be then under that colonial umbrella know a french indo china and saigon be it capital . among others taylor be with be his american fiancé gloria franklin . of course the romantic spark start the second that lamarr and taylor catch sight of each other in that saigon café . taylor do an unheard of thing and he break it off with franklin and wed lamarr post haste . sad to say and but implicit be the message that what you do with exotic beauty not 100 % caucasian be bed them do not wed them . but taylor and lamarr do not see it that way . a be say by queen latifah in the recent hairspray and theyre in for a whole world of stupid . this be 1939 not 1967 in america . we still have miscegenation law in most state at the time so the message of stick to your own kind be in keep with 1939 more . this be the exact opposite message the screen would give in 1967 in guess who come to dinner . taylor and lamarr be stun and no two way about that . the set show tropical saigon be great and the film do get an oscar nomination for cinematography . but the story be both melodramatic and thank god and date .