Forbidden(Movie, 1932)

Name: Forbidden
Genre: Drama, Romance / Love
Released: 1932
Duration: T01:25:00
Rating: 3.4

1h 25min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

Forbidden is a 1932 American pre-Code melodrama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, and Ralph Bellamy. An original story inspired by the 1931 novel Back Street by Fannie Hurst, with a screenplay by Jo Swerling, the film is about a young librarian who falls in love with a married man while on a sea cruise. ()

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On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby, but doesn't tell Bob, who turns out to be a rising politician. She passes herself off as the baby's nanny. When Bob learns what is going on, he adopts the little girl, not telling his wife or anyone else where she came from. Lulu gets a job at a newspaper. Things get complicated when the editor gets the dirt on Grover, but also wants to marry Lulu.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)

Based on the work of: Fannie Hurst ("Back Street")

Made by: Columbia Pictures

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 9 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU)

Status: Released

Release date GR: 01/08/1932

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy, Charles Middleton, Claude King, Dorothy Peterson, Fred Kelsey, Henry Armetta, Thomas Jefferson, Jack Chefe, Wild Bill Elliott, Bess Flowers, Halliwell Hobbes, Harry Holman, Arthur Hoyt, Eddie Kane, Edward LeSaint, Edmund Mortimer, Robert Parrish, Florence Wix

Director: Frank Capra

Producer: Harry Cohn, Frank Capra

Screenwriter: Jo Swerling, Fannie Hurst, Frank Capra

Film Editor: Maurice Wright

Director of Photography: Joseph Walker

Costume designer: Edward Stevenson

Keywords: cruise, cuba, pre-code

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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