The Forbidden Street

The Forbidden Street is a 1949 British drama film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Dana Andrews, Maureen O'Hara, Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton and A.E. Matthews. In Victorian London, a young woman marries a poor drunken artist and struggles to make ends meet. After his death, she takes in a lodger whom she soon falls in love with.^[1]

Cast

• Dana Andrews - Henry Lambert / Gilbert Lauderdale
• Maureen O'Hara - Adelaide Culver
• Sybil Thorndike - Mrs Mounsey
• Fay Compton - Mrs Culver
• Anthony Tancred - Treff Culver
• Diane Hart - The Blazer
• Anne Butchart - Alice Hambro
• Wilfrid Hyde-White - Mr Culver
• A.E. Matthews - Mr Bly

Production notes

• 20th Century Fox bought Margery Sharp's novel in June 1946 for $150,000 plus bonus increments
• The film was shot in England using studio funds frozen in Great Britain.
• Production Dates: mid-Jul-mid-Oct 1948 at London Film Studios, Shepperton, England
• The working titles of this film were Britannia Mews and Impulse.
• The film was released in Great Britain as Britannia Mews and was originally scheduled to be released in America as Affairs of Adelaide

References

1. ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/27762?view=cast

• The Forbidden Street at the Internet Movie Database