Forbidden (1932)


Forbidden
Release Date09 January 1932
TaglineHer Greatest Dramatic Role !
GenreDrama, Romance
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish, French
Sound MixMono
ColorBlack and White
Film TypeFeature
Film ClassMelodrama, Romantic Drama
ThemesUnrequited Love
TonesAffectionate, Passionate, Intimate
TagsChild, Daughter, District Attorney, Editor, Employment, Extramarital Affair, Governor, Handicap, Journalist, Kill, Lawyer, Library, Love, Love Triangle, Marriage, Muckracking, Past, Politician, Ruin, Schoolteacher, Shipboard, Shoot Out, Spinster, Star Crossed Lovers, Wife, Woman

Forbidden is a 1932 American melodrama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck as a librarian who falls in love with a married man played by Adolphe Menjou, with tragic consequences.


Cast and Crew


Cast

Lulu Smith

Bob Grover

Al Holland

Helen Grover

Wilkinson

Myrna Fresholt
Roberta as a Baby

Roberta: aged 18

Oliver Eckhardt
Briggs

Roger Byrne
Office Boy

Emile, French Waiter

Jessie Arnold
Nurse

Grover's Butler

Nora Cecil
Chambermaid on Telephone

Jack Chefe
Waiter at Havana Gambling House

Howard Martin III

Lynn Compton
Child in Halloween scene

Larry Dolan
Child in Halloween scene

Reporter

Mary Jo Ellis
Roberta: aged 12

Robert Graves
Mr. Eckner

Sherry Hall
Henry, D.A.'s Assistant

Chuck Hamilton
Wilkins, Reporter

Harry Holman
Advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist

Martin, Grover's Secretary

Carmencita Johnson
Child in Halloween scene

Seessel Anne Johnson
Child in Halloween scene

Maitre d'

Marty

Claude King
Mr. Jones

Edward LeSaint
Grover's Doctor

Hospital Visitor

Leila McIntyre
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Piano Player

Edmund Mortimer
Man at Political Convention

William H. O'Brien
Waiter

Spec O'Donnell
Spec

Roberta: aged 8

Office Boy

Gertrude Pedlar
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Cooke Phelps
Office Boy

Helen Stuart
Woman

Harry Todd
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Dick Winslow
Office Boy

Florence Wix
Mrs. Smith

Director

Producer

story, producer

Jo Swerling
adaptation and dialogue

producer

Original Music

Irving Bibo
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David Broekman
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Alfonso Corelli
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Cinematographer

Editor

Maurice Wright
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Costume Designer

Edward Stevenson
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Makeup Department

Monte Westmore
makeup artist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Charles C. Coleman
assistant director

Sound Department

Music Department

Sam Perry
composer: stock music

Production Company

Columbia Pictures Corporation
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Distributor

Columbia Pictures
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