The Forbidden City (film)

The Forbidden City is a 1918 American silent drama film starring Norma Talmadge and Thomas Meighan and directed by Sidney Franklin. A copy of the film is in the Library of Congress and other film archives.^[1]

The Forbidden City
Advertisement in Moving Picture World, September 1918
Directed by	Sidney Franklin
Written by	Mary Murillo
Story by	George Scarborough
Produced by	Joseph M. Schenck
Starring	Norma Talmadge Thomas Meighan
Cinematography	H. Lyman Broening Edward Wynard
Production company	Selznick Pictures
Distributed by	Select Pictures Corporation
Release date	October 6, 1918 (1918-10-06)
Running time	62 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Forbidden City

Plot

The plot centers around an inter-racial romance between a Chinese princess (Talmadge) and an American (Meighan). When palace officials discover she has become pregnant, she is sentenced to death. In the latter part of the film Talmadge plays the now adult daughter of the affair, seeking her father in the Philippines.

Cast (in credits order)

• Norma Talmadge as San San / Toy
• Thomas Meighan as John Worden
• E. Alyn Warren as Wong Li
• Michael Rayle as Mandarin
• L. Rogers Lytton as Chinese Emperor
• Reid Hamilton as Lieutenant Philip Halbert
• Charles Fang as Yuan-Loo