The Forbidden City
Also known as [A Tale of a Forbidden City]
(1918) American
B&W : [?] Five or Six? reels
Directed by Sidney A. Franklin (Sidney Franklin)

Cast: Norma Talmadge [San San; and Toy], Thomas Meighan [John Worden], A.E. Warren (E. Allyn Warren) [Wong Li], M.W. Rale (Michael W. Rayle) [mandarin], L. Rogers Lytton [Chinese emperor], Reid Hamilton [Lieutenant Philip Halbert]

Norma Talmadge Film Corporation production; distributed by Select Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Joseph M. Schenck. Scenario by Mary Murillo, from a screen story by George Scarborough. Technical director, Willard M. Rineck. Cinematography by Edward Wynard and H. Lyman Broening. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. / © 6 October 1918 by Norma Talmadge Film Corporation [LP13000]. Premiered 6 October 1918 in New York, New York. Released [?] September or October? 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1441.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive [35mm positive], in the EmGee Film Library film holdings [16mm reduction positive], and in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].

Keywords: Dual roles

Listing updated: 24 June 2009.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.1441; Limbacher-Feature p. 84 : Website-IMDb; Website-Talmadge.

Home video: DVD.