Forbidden (1932 film)

Forbidden is a 1932 American PreCode melodrama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, and Ralph Bellamy. Based on the novel Back Street by Fannie Hurst, with a screenplay by Jo Swerling, the film is about a young librarian who falls in love with a married man while on a sea cruise.

After they return, Lulu takes a job as a clerical assistant for the Daily Record newspaper, where she is pursued by brash reporter Al Holland Ralph Bellamy. But Lulu is sappy over Bob. A few months into their affair, Bob comes to Lulus apartment for dinner, bringing two Halloween masks with which they have fun. She is eager to reveal that she is pregnant with their child. Their merriment is interrupted by a phone call from Al, whose proposal to Lulu prompts Bob to confess that he is married to an invalid wife whom he cannot abandon. Lulu wants to continue their affair, but Bob refuses to let her waste her life on him. Upset at his confession, Lulu throws him out of her apartment without telling him that she is pregnant. A few months later, Lulu gives birth to a baby girl.Two years later, Bob has become district attorney and Al is now city editor of the newspaper. After Bob hires a detective to find Lulu, he comes to her apartment, where Lulu introduces him to his daughter Roberta. Soon after, while Lulu and Roberta are waiting to meet Bob, Al suddenly appears and questions her about Roberta. When Bob arrives, Lulu tells Al that the baby is Bobs adopted daughter in order to protect Bobs reputation. She also tells Al that she is the babys governess. Bob adopts Roberta, taking her home the next day to present to his wife Helen Dorothy Peterson, who just returned from a health cure in Vienna. Helen is delighted with the child but questions Lulus ability to care for the baby. Lulu runs out, and when Bob catches up with her, she tries to break up their relationship for goodbut she cannot leave him. ........

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