The Forbidden Woman

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The Forbidden Woman
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Directed by Paul L. Stein
Written by Clara Beranger
Elmer Harris
Starring Jetta Goudal
Ivan Lebedeff
Leonid Snegoff
Cinematography David Abel
Production
company
DeMille Pictures Corporation
Distributed by Pathé Exchange
Release date
October 29, 1927
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent
English intertitles

The Forbidden Woman is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Jetta Goudal, Ivan Lebedeff and Leonid Snegoff. [1] [2] The film is set in French North Africa.

Silent film film with no synchronized recorded dialogue

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound. In silent films for entertainment, the plot may be conveyed by the use of title cards, written indications of the plot and key dialogue lines. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, the introduction of synchronized dialogue became practical only in the late 1920s with the perfection of the Audion amplifier tube and the advent of the Vitaphone system. During the silent-film era that existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a pianist, theater organist—or even, in large cities, a small orchestra—would often play music to accompany the films. Pianists and organists would play either from sheet music, or improvisation.

Paul Ludwig Stein was an Austrian-born film director with 67 films to his credit. Stein began his career in Berlin in 1918 and worked exclusively in the German silent film industry until 1926, when he first went to Hollywood, and spent the next five years commuting between Germany and the U.S., where he worked with stars such as Jeanette MacDonald, Lillian Gish and Constance Bennett.

Jetta Goudal actress

Jetta Goudal was a Dutch-American actress, successful in Hollywood films of the silent film era.

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Cast

Ivan Lebedeff American-Russian actor

Ivan Lebedeff was a Russian film actor. He appeared in 66 films between 1926 and 1953.

Victor Varconi Hungarian actor

Victor Varconi was a highly successful silent film actor in Hungary.

Joseph Schildkraut actor

Joseph Schildkraut was an Austrian-American actor. He won an Oscar for his performance as Captain Alfred Dreyfus in the film The Life of Emile Zola (1937), later he was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance as Otto Frank in the film The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and a Primetime Emmy for his performance as Rabbi Gottlieb in a 1962 episode of the television series Sam Benedict.


Preservation status

A surviving film at several archives, though the UCLA Film & Television only has 800 feet of a fragmentary print. [3] [4]

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