My Forbidden Past

My Forbidden Past
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Robert Stevenson
Produced by	Polan Banks Robert Sparks
Written by	Leopold Atlas (adaptation)
Screenplay by	Marion Parsonnet
Based on	Carriage Entrance by Polan Banks
Starring	Robert Mitchum Ava Gardner Melvyn Douglas
Music by	Friedrich Hollaender
Cinematography	Harry J. Wild
Edited by	George C. Shrader
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release dates	April 21, 1951 (1951-04-21) (USA)^[1]
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1,150,000 (US rentals)^[2]

My Forbidden Past is a 1951 film directed by Robert Stevenson. It stars Robert Mitchum and Ava Gardner.^[3] Adapted from Polan Banks novel Carriage Entrance by Leopold Atlas.

Plot summary

In 1890s New Orleans, wrongly believing Barbara Beaurevelle (Gardner) had stood him up on the eve of their elopement, Dr. Mark Lucas (Mitchum) has returned from South Africa accompanied by Corinne (Janis Carter), a woman he married on the rebound. Determined to win him back, Barbara bribes her cousin (Melvyn Douglas) to break up the marriage, a cold-blooded scheme that ends in death and the doctor suspected of murder.

Cast

Robert Mitchum as Dr. Mark Lucas
Ava Gardner as Barbara Beaurevelle
Melvyn Douglas as Paul Beaurevelle
Lucile Watson as Aunt Eula Beaurevelle
Janis Carter as Corinne Lucas
Gordon Oliver as Clay Duchesne
Basil Ruysdael as Dean Cazzley
Clarence Muse as Pompey
Walter Kingsford as Coroner
Will Wright as Luther Toplady

Reception

The film recorded a loss of $700,000.^[4]

References

↑ "My Forbidden Past: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
↑ 'The Top Box Office Hits of 1951', Variety, January 2, 1952
↑ http://allmovie.com/work/my-forbidden-past-34049
↑ Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin, The RKO Story. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982. p256.

External links

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Films directed by Robert Stevenson

Happy Ever After (1932)
Falling for You (1933)
Tudor Rose (1936)
The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
Jack of All Trades (1936)
King Solomon's Mines (1937)
Non-Stop New York (1937)
Owd Bob (1938)
The Ware Case (1938)
Young Man's Fancy (1939)
Return to Yesterday (1940)
Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
Back Street (1941)
Joan of Paris (1942)
Forever and a Day (1943)
Jane Eyre (1943)
Dishonored Lady (1947)
To the Ends of the Earth (1948)
I Married a Communist (1949)
Walk Softly, Stranger (1950)
My Forbidden Past (1951)
The Las Vegas Story (1952)
Johnny Tremain (1957)
Old Yeller (1957)
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
Kidnapped (1960)
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
In Search of the Castaways (1962)
Son of Flubber (1963)
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964)
Mary Poppins (1964)
The Monkey's Uncle (1965)
That Darn Cat! (1965)
The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
The Love Bug (1968)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Herbie Rides Again (1974)
The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
The Shaggy D.A. (1976)

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