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1918 film by Sidney Franklin

The Forbidden City
Advertisement in Moving Picture World, September 1918
Directed by	Sidney Franklin
Written by	Mary Murillo
Story by	George Scarborough
Produced by	Joseph M. Schenck
Starring	Norma Talmadge Thomas Meighan
Cinematography	H. Lyman Broening Edward Wynard
Production company	Selznick Pictures
Distributed by	Select Pictures Corporation
Release date	October 6, 1918 (1918-10-06)
Running time	62 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Forbidden City

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.

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

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

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