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The Forbidden Woman
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6568 feet
Directed by Paul L. Stein

Cast: Jetta Goudal [Zita Gautier], Ivan Lebedeff [sheik], Josephine Norman [Zita’s maid], Victor Varconi [Colonel Gautier], Joseph Schildkraut [Jean La Coste], Lassie Lou Ahern

DeMille Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Scenario by Clara S. Beranger, from the adaptation by Clara Beranger of the short story “Brothers” by Elmer Harris. Production supervision by William C. de Mille. Art direction by Mitchell Leisen and Wilfred Buckland. Costume design by Adrian (Gilbert Adrian). Assistant director, Curt Rehfeld. Cinematography by David Abel. / © 1 November 1927 by DeMille Pictures Corporation [LP24593]. Premiered 29 October 1927 in New York, New York. Released 7 November 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in a European film archive [35mm nitrate positive (French language intertitles), and in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [fragmentary positive (approximately 800 feet)].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Executions

Listing updated: 12 July 2015.

References: Bohn-Light p. 108 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Andrew Genger.