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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.
Forbidden: Directed by Frank Capra. With Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy, Dorothy Peterson. A librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid.
- (1.7K)
- Drama, Romance
- Frank Capra
- 1932-01-09
Mar 23, 2023 · FORBIDDEN, a photoplay in nine reels by Columbia Pictures Corp. (C) 5Jan32; LP2737. Columbia Pictures Corp. (PWH); 30Jan59; R230985.
Forbidden. On a cruise ship headed to Havana, librarian Lulu Smith (Barbara Stanwyck) meets dashing attorney Bob Grover (Adolphe Menjou), and they quickly become inseparable.
- (13)
- Frank Capra
- Drama
- Barbara Stanwyck
On an ocean voyage, a librarian falls for a married man in the Pre-Code soap opera, Forbidden (1932), starring Barbara Stanwyck and directed by Frank Capra. In his autobiography, The Name Above the Title, Capra made it clear that he was still developing as a filmmaker during the period in which he made Forbidden.
- Frank R. Capra
- Barbara Stanwyck
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Forbidden is a 1932 American pre-Code melodrama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, and Ralph Bellamy.
Overview. 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.
