Lady of the Tropics is a 1939 American drama film directed by Jack Conway, starring Robert Taylor, and Hedy Lamarr, and featuring Joseph Schildkraut.

While visiting French Indochina with his girlfriend Dolly Harrison and her family on her father's yacht, freeloading American playboy Bill Carey falls in love with Manon DeVargnes, a beautiful, local woman of mixed race background he meets in Saigon.

However, Manon, who does not love either man, desires a passport so that she may go to Paris, to be free and have equal rights with white French citizens, which she lacks in Saigon.

Despite the two other men pursuing her, Manon prefers Bill, whom she meets at a local shop and helps to buy a hat that Dolly had wanted.

Bill arrives and tries to take her for medical help, but it is evident it will be futile; he puts her down on a bed, and she dies confessing her love for him.