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The Forbidden Street is a British film of genre Drama directed by Jean Negulesco released in USA on 3 may 1949 with Dana Andrews
The Forbidden Street (1949)
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Add to a movie listThe Forbidden Street is a 1949 British melodrama film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Dana Andrews, Maureen O'Hara, Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton and A. E. Matthews. In Victorian London, a young woman marries a poor drunken artist and struggles to make ends meet. After his death, she takes in a lodger whom she soon falls in love with.
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From a well to do family, Adelaide (Maureen O'Hara), over the objections of her family, marries an impoverished artist Henry Lambert (Dana Andrews) 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 (Sybil Thorndike) who claims to the police that Henry was killed accidentally.Actors
Dana Andrews
(Henry Lambert / Gilbert Lauderdale)
Maureen O'Hara
(Adelaide 'Addie' Culver)
Sybil Thorndike
(Mrs. 'The Sow' Mounsey)
Fay Compton
(Mrs. Culver)
Diane Hart
(The Blazer)
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