The Forbidden City

Name: The Forbidden City
Cast: Norma Talmadge, Thomas Meighan, E. Alyn Warren, Michael Rayle, L. Rogers Lytton

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The daughter of a Chinese mandarin is sentenced to death for her secret marriage to an American. Their child, raised in the mandarin's palace, grows up and escapes to seek her father, now a high-ranking official in the Philippines.

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Cast & Crew

Director: Sidney FranklinWriters: George Scarborough, Mary MurilloProducer: Joseph M. Schenck

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

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