The Forbidden City (film)
1918 film by Sidney Franklin
- October 6, 1918 (1918-10-06)
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The Forbidden City is a 1918 American silent drama film starring Norma Talmadge and Thomas Meighan and directed by Sidney Franklin. A copy of the film is in the Library of Congress and other film archives.[1]
Plot
The plot centers around an inter-racial romance between a Chinese princess (Talmadge) and an American (Meighan). When palace officials discover she has become pregnant, she is sentenced to death. In the latter part of the film Talmadge plays the now adult daughter of the affair, seeking her father in the Philippines
Cast (in credits order)
- Norma Talmadge as San San / Toy
- Thomas Meighan as John Worden
- E. Alyn Warren as Wong Li
- Michael Rayle as Mandarin
- L. Rogers Lytton as Chinese Emperor
- Reid Hamilton as Lieutenant Philip Halbert
- Charles Fang as Yuan-Loo
References
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Forbidden City at silentera.com
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Forbidden City.
- The Forbidden City at IMDb
- Norma Talmadge Film website
- The Forbidden City on YouTube
- The Forbidden City
- The Forbidden City is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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Films directed by Sidney Franklin
- Let Katie Do It (1916)
- Going Straight (1916)
- The Little School Ma'am (1916)
- Gretchen the Greenhorn (1916)
- A Sister of Six (1916)
- The Babes in the Woods (1917)
- Jack and the Beanstalk (1917)
- Treasure Island (1918)
- The Safety Curtain (1918)
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1918)
- The Forbidden City (1918)
- The Probation Wife (1919)
- The Heart of Wetona (1919)
- The Hoodlum (1919)
- Heart o' the Hills (1919)
- Courage (1921)
- Not Guilty (1921)
- Smilin' Through (1922)
- The Primitive Lover (1922)
- East Is West (1922)
- Brass (1923)
- Dulcy (1923)
- Tiger Rose (1923)
- Her Night of Romance (1924)
- Learning to Love (1925)
- Her Sister from Paris (1925)
- Beverly of Graustark (1926)
- The Duchess of Buffalo (1926)
- Quality Street (1927)
- The Actress (1928)
- Wild Orchids (1929)
- The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)
- Devil-May-Care (1929)
- The Lady of Scandal (1930)
- A Lady's Morals (1930)
- The Guardsman (1931)
- Private Lives (1931)
- Smilin' Through (1932)
- Reunion in Vienna (1933)
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
- The Dark Angel (1935)
- The Good Earth (1937)
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)
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