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Lady of the Tropics (Episode 84) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
The plot of 1939's Lady of the Tropics strangely mirrored the life of it's star Hedy Lamarr. In the film Lamarr is a woman of mixed race living in pre-war Saigon trying to flee the advances of an oily, corrupt rubber tycoon. She is half French and yearns to escape to France in search of her father. In real life, the Czech born Lamarr fled her home country for Paris after marrying a domineering Austrian arms merchant with ties to Mussolini and Hitler! From Paris she made her way to London where she was discovered by Louis B. Mayer and placed under contract with MGM.
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