The Forbidden City

The Forbidden City

Infobox Film
name = The Forbidden City


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director = Sidney Franklin
producer = Joseph M. Schenck
writer = Mary MurilloGeorge Scarborough (story)
narrator =
starring = Norma Talmadge
Thomas Meighan
music =
cinematography = H. Lyman Broening
Edward Wynard
editing =
distributor =
released = 6 October 1918
runtime = 62 minutes
country = USA
language = Silent film
English intertitles
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imdb_id = 0009086

"The Forbidden City" is a film released in 1918 starring Norma Talmadge and Thomas Meighan and directed by Sidney Franklin. The plot centers around an inter-racial romance between a Chinese princess (Talmage) and an American (Meighan). When palace officials discover she has fallen 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 ... San San/Toy
*Thomas Meighan ... John Worden
*E. Alyn Warren ... Wong Li
*Michael Rayle ... Mandarin
*L. Rogers Lytton ... Chinese Emperor
*Reid Hamilton ... Lieutenant Philip Halbert

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