Forbidden Paradise (1924)

Directed by

Ernst Lubitsch

Genre

drama film, silent film, biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 16m

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent film about Catherine the Great. She has romantic entanglements and political intrigues in her court.

lightheartedplayfulromanticdramatichistoricalglamorouswittystaged

What happens

Forbidden Paradise is a 1924 American silent drama film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, produced by Famous Players–Lasky, and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on a 1922 Broadway play, The Czarina, by Edward Sheldon, who adapted the Hungarian-language book by Melchior Lengyel and Lajos Bíró. The play starred Doris Keane, in one of her last stage roles, as Catherine the Great. Basil Rathbone costarred with Keane. The film stars Pola Negri as Catherine the Great and Rod La Rocque in the Rathbone role. Clark Gable makes his second appearance on film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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