It is not only nonsense, it's very silly nonsense. But rather pretty visually mainly because of Heddy Lamar and Robert Taylor.It's a typical Hollywood fantasy of the "Orient". The city was supposed to be Saigon but the background, the temple, and the dancers were of Bangkok. And her clothes were not even Asian, they were Moroccan and some outlandish Hollywood creation. But, for Hollywood, anything beyond the white world are interchangeable and we frequently see Vietnamese play Chinese and Chinese play Japanese and vice versa or white people play Asian. Even Marlon Brando couldn't escape such ridiculousness. Time has not changed Hollywood much. Now it's black people popping up everywhere no matter what the story, the genre, or the time and place to continue the silly ridiculous nonsense. Nominated for 1 "Oscar"? The standard must be very low back then.

I watched this movie for the first time yesterday [08/10/2016] and thought it was a turkey. Maybe it was just me, but a lot of the other reviewers apparently felt the same way.I was 40 minutes into the film when the thought came to me, "Where are we going with all this?" Things got a little more complicated when Lamarr's character ended up engaged to three men at the same time: one arranged, a second coerced, and the third willingly to Robert Taylor's character, whom she did marry. We never got to see the prince she was supposed to marry per the arrangement.Lamarr's character got a little giddy at times, something seemingly out of her part and detracting from the serious nature of the story. Given the title, Miss Lamarr, and the setting, I would think her character would have been more of the Dragon Lady type; but then again, that's just me. Someone posted that she wasn't too selective of her films, with which I am inclined to agree. Others thought perhaps the audiences of the late thirties were not as sophisticated, but there were some very good films that came out of that era, so there is no excuse for a turkey with high-powered talent.

Hedy Lamarr, (Manon DeVargnes Carey) was so beautiful in this film and her acting was outstanding along with Robert Taylor, (William Carey). Bill Carey played the role as a playboy with plenty of money and sails to Saigon and meets Manon in a bar and the two of them fall in love with each other once they look into each other eyes. Bill does not know very much about Manon or the fact that she has a lover named Pierre Delaroch, (Joseph Schildkraut) who lives a very shady life and is up to all kinds of tricks. Pierre becomes jealous once he finds out about Manon falling in love with Bill Carey and makes contact with his friends in the government of Saigon in order not to grant her any visas to the United States or Paris, France. Manon is a lady who tells many lies and is really a very sly and tricky lady when it comes to men or anyone. There is plenty of romance in this film and extremely dramatic situations which face these two lovers. If Hedy Lamarr did not star in this film, I am sure Betty Davis would have done a great job, but never as beautiful. Enjoy.

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.