The Forbidden Street (1949)

19491h 31mdir. Jean NegulescoUnited Kingdomdrama film

With Dana Andrews, Maureen O'Hara, Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Directed by Jean Negulesco

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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 A. E. Matthews. Set in Victorian London, it tells the story of a wealthy young woman who marries a poor drunken artist and struggles to make ends meet; after his death, she takes in a lodger, with whom she falls in love. The film is based on the 1946 novel Britannia Mews by Margery Sharp.

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