In future Hollywood films, Lamarr was often typecast as the archetypal glamorous seductress of exotic origin. Her second American film was "I Take This Woman" (1940), co-starring with Spencer Tracy under the direction of regular Dietrich collaborator, Josef von Sternberg. Von Sternberg was fired during the shoot, and replaced by Frank Borzage. The film was put on hold, and Lamarr was put into "Lady of the Tropics" (1939), where she played a mixed-race seductress in Saigon opposite Robert Taylor. She returned to "I Take This Woman", re-shot by W. S. Van Dyke. The resulting film was a flop.