Forbidden Love is a vehicle for Lily Damita, perhaps best known to film fans as the tempestuous first wife of actor Errol Flynn. Damita is here cast as Princess Nadya, who before marrying into royalty was the sweetheart of commoner Sabien Paschal (Paul Richter). Years after the end of the affair, Paschal is reunited with Nadya during a midnight supper in her boudoir. Before long, the flames are rekindled, and the couple is locked in a passionate embrace. The political ramifications of this midnight tete-a-tete are not fully realized until the tongues of the court gossips begin a-wagging. A convenient populist revolution enables Nadya to give up her throne in favor of eternal happiness with her beloved Paschal. Forbidden Love was based on the Noel Coward play The Queen Was In the Parlor, which was refilmed in 1933 as Tonight is Ours.
by Hal Erickson
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