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The Forbidden Street: Directed by Jean Negulesco. With Dana Andrews, Maureen O'Hara, Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton. A rich woman in Victorian England marries a poor artist from the wrong side of the track, and finds herself the victim of a blackmailing plot.
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- Drama, Romance
- Jean Negulesco
- 1949-05-03
Jun 12, 2014 · Based on Margery Sharp's 1946 novel Britannia Mews, The Forbidden Street stars O'Hara as Adelaide Culver, a headstrong woman from an aristocratic London family who defies her mother (Fay Compton) to marry her handsome music tutor, Henry Lambert (Dana Andrews, in a professorial beard).
- Jean Negulesco, Guy Hamilton
- Dana Andrews
In late-1800s London, the well-to-do Adelaide ( Maureen O'Hara ), over the objections of her family, marries her drawing teacher, impoverished artist Henry Lambert ( Dana Andrews ), and moves into his flat in the run-down street Britannia Mews.
In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert ...
They move to Lambert's digs in Brittania Mews, a slum-like part of the city. It's not a happy marriage. One day, they have a fight while Lambert is soused, and Adelaide pushes him out of the way. As he's intoxicated, he loses his balance and falls down…
- Jean Negulesco
- 20th Century Fox
The Forbidden Street is a 1949 British melodrama film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Dana Andrews, Maureen O'Hara, Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton and ...
- 91 min
- 20
- OLD MOVIE SHACK
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Middle-class Victorian young lady Adelaide Culver has always been fascinated by the adjacent working-class slum Britannia Mews, and when she falls in love with her impoverished art teacher, Henry Lambert, they move into the Mews together when her parents refuse to consent to their marriage.
