The Forbidden Street.
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✎ Suggest a correctionDefying her well-to-do family, a young woman marries a dissolute painter. Setting, the London slums in the 1880's. Filmed in England.
Maureen O'Hara plays Adelaide Lambert who marries an impoverished artist who is later killed in an accident when Adelaide pushes him away. Adelaide is blackmailed for two years by her neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, a spiteful old hag who claims to the police that Henry Lambert was killed accidentally. A young barrister shows up who is the living image of Adelaide's late husband. He gets rid of the old woman by threatening to prosecute her for blackmail, eventually reunites Adelaide with her family and falls in love with her.
Maureen O'Hara plays Adelaide Lambert who marries an impoverished artist who is later killed in an accident when Adelaide pushes him away. Adelaide is blackmailed for two years by her neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, a spiteful old hag who claims to the police that Henry Lambert was killed accidentally. A young barrister shows up who is the living image of Adelaide's late husband. He gets rid of the old woman by threatening to prosecute her for blackmail, eventually reunites Adelaide with her family and falls in love with her.
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13May49 L2450, renewed 3Jun76 R637157 Renewal claimant: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 13May49; LP2450.
Complete catalog record
THE FORBIDDEN STREET. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1949. 91 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Previously issued under the titles "Britannia Mews," "Affairs of Adelaide," and "Impulse." Based on the novel "Britannia Mews" by Margery Sharp. Summary: Defying her well-to-do family, a young woman marries a dissolute painter. Setting, the London slums in the 1880's. Filmed in England. Credits: Producer, William Perlberg; director, Jean Negulesco; screenplay, Ring Lardner, Jr.; music score, Malcolm Arnold; music director, Muir Mathieson. Cast: Dana Andrews, Maureen O'Hara, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton, A. E. Matthews. © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 13May49; LP2450.
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