Clark gable wikipedia biography

film by Ernst Lubitsch

Forbidden Paradise is a American silent drama film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, produced by Famous Players–Lasky, and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The film is based on a 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.

Clark gable wikipedia biography

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.^[1][2][3]

Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine,^[4] Catherine (Negri), the Czarina of a small European country, decides to give audience in person to the French Ambassador (Malatesta) when she learns he is a favorite with the Parisian ladies.

In the meantime, Alexei (La Rocque), a young officer in a border town discovers a revol