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Summary:

Forbidden: After their vacation affair leaves her pregnant, librarian Lulu Smith (Barbara Stanwyck) learns that attorney Bob Grover (Adolphe Menjou) is unable to divorce his invalid wife. Keeping the child's origins a secret, Lulu finds work with newspaperman Al Holland (Ralph Bellamy). But things get complicated when Bob rises to become mayor and the two secretly resume their affair.
Lady for a day: When Louise (Jean Parker) announces that she plans to visit her mother to introduce her aristocratic fiancé, Apple Annie's friends, including gangster Dave the Dude (Warren William), Judge Henry D. Blake (Guy Kibbee) and Missouri Martin (Glenda Farrell), rally around to transform her from a poor street peddler into the society matron her daughter is expecting to see.

Table of Contents:

• Forbidden (approximately 85 min.)
• Lady for a day (approximately 95 min.).

Contributors:

Capra, Frank, 1897-1991 , film director

Cohn, Harry, 1891-1958 , film producer

Swerling, Jo, 1897-1964 , screenwriter

Stanwyck, Barbara, 1907-1990 , actor

Menjou, Adolphe, 1890-1963 , actor

Bellamy, Ralph, 1904-1991 , actor

Peterson, Dorothy, 1897-1979 , actor

Jefferson, Thomas L., 1857-1932 , actor

Fresholt, Myrna , actor

Henry, Charlotte, 1914-1980 , actor

Walker, Joseph B. , director of photography

Wright, Maurice , editor of moving image work

Riskin, Robert , screenwriter

Robson, May, 1858-1942 , actor

William, Warren, 1895-1948 , actor

Farrell, Glenda, 1904-1971 , actor

Kibbee, Guy, 1882-1956 , actor

Sparks, Ned, 1883-1957 , actor

Parker, Jean , actor

Connolly, Walter, 1887-1940 , actor

Pendleton, Nat, 1895-1967 , actor

Havlick, Gene, 1894-1959 , editor of moving image work

Bakaleinikoff, C. (Constantin), 1898-1966 , music director

Bakaleinikoff, Mischa , composer

Runyon, Damon, 1880-1946

Columbia Pictures Corporation , production company

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm) , publisher

Languages:

English
French

Language Notes:

Dialogue in English; subtitles in French.

Included Works:

Forbidden (Motion picture)

Lady for a day (Motion picture : 1933)

Related Works:

(Lady for a day) Motion picture adaptation of: Madame La Gimp [by Runyon, D.]

Alternate Titles:

Title from container and disc label: Forbidden
Title from container and disc label: Lady for a day

Subjects:

Librarians — Drama

Politicians — Drama

Adultery — Drama

Unmarried mothers — Drama

False personation — Drama

Impostors and imposture — Drama

Street vendors — New York (State) — New York — Drama

Depressions — 1929 — New York (State) — New York — Drama

Gangsters — New York (State) — New York — Drama

Genres:

Motion pictures

Romance films

Comedy films

Feature films

Fiction films

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

System Details:

Blu-ray; regions A, B, C; DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono.

Performers:

Cast: Cast of Forbidden: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Bellamy, Dorothy Peterson, Thomas Jefferson, Myrna Fresholt, Charlotte V. Henry.
Cast: Cast of Lady for a day: Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks, Walter Connolly, Jean Parker, Nat Pendleton.

Production Credits:

Forbidden: director of photography, Joseph Walker ; film editor, Maurice Wright.
Lady for a day: director of photography, Joseph Walker ; film editor, Gene Havlick ; musical direction, C. Bakaleinikoff ; music, Mischa Bakaleinikoff.

General Notes:

Description based on: Title from container.
Optional English subtitles for the hearing-impaired (SDH)
Forbidden: Columbia Pictures presents ; a Frank Capra Production ; produced by Harry Cohn ; story by Frank Capra ; adaptation and dialogue, Jo Swerling ; directed by Frank Capra.
Lady for a day: Columbia Pictures presents ; screenplay and dialogue, Robert Riskin ; directed by Frank Capra.
Lady for a day: based on the story "Madame La Gimp" by Damon Runyon.
Forbidden: originally released as a motion picture in 1932. Lady for a day: originally released as a motion picture in 1933.
Full screen (1.33:1).
Special feature for Forbidden includes: audio commentary by Jeanine Basinger.

Audience:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

4 3/4 in.; monochrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; mono; DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0; sound

Film Characteristics:

1.33:1; full screen

Digital Characteristics:

video file; Blu-ray; all regions

Call Numbers:

FOR 1932 BLU

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Sony Pictures Entertainment: 12696786 (set container)
Publisher Number, Sony Pictures Entertainment: 12709920 (container)
Publisher Number, Sony Pictures Entertainment: 9385269 (disc)

OCLC Numbers:

1477930290